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Glynn

Last reply Nov 25, 2018 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

HopperGo transfer problems

Hopper 3 to Hoppergo transfers are painfully slow. It took 9 hours to transfer 2GB. That was about 6 hours of video. Seriously?

Both devices are new as of yesterday. Using cable that came with the HG. USB 2.0.

Using dish anywhere app on iOS device. If it matters- one is iPad mini ios9.3 and a jail broken iPhone 6 with 9.3.

I called dish tech support and I got "sucks to be you". (Nice about it though- they sent "feedback" to the engineers because all their troubleshooting tips were exhausted. They won't call me with a solution even if they have one...but that's "all they can do". So I'm supposed to call them in 8-10 days to see if they have an idea)

I've tried different USB ports on the hopper 3 and I've also reset the HG to factory settings.

They get stuck in the "prepare" process. Took two hours to "prepare" a 30 minute SD sitcom.

I'm ready for the sledgehammer unless someone has an idea. Thanks

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jasonh1965

Sep 15, 2016

The "preparing for mobile" part is always by far the slowest part of the process. Make sure you have smart prepare for mobile checked in your defaults. I've found that some shows still don't seem to auto prepare, but it saves a ton of time for those that do.

Glynn

Sep 15, 2016

jasonh1965 said:
The "preparing for mobile" part is always by far the slowest part of the process. Make sure you have smart prepare for mobile checked in your defaults. I've found that some shows still don't seem to auto prepare, but it saves a ton of time for those that do.

Thanks for the tip. I've searched both the hopper 3 and HG settings and can't find a way turn off dumb prepare. The only "smart" anything I found was on dish app. "Smart tune on launch"

In the mobile section on the H3, it only pertains to pairing.

When you mentioned it, I thought I'd seen that but I can't find it.

jasonh1965

Sep 15, 2016

Glynn said:
Thanks for the tip. I've searched both the hopper 3 and HG settings and can't find a way turn off dumb prepare. The only "smart" anything I found was on dish app. "Smart tune on launch"

In the mobile section on the H3, it only pertains to pairing.

When you mentioned it, I thought I'd seen that but I can't find it.

It should be under settings, then timer defaults or something like that. I'm not at home to look at the menu, but I'm pretty sure that's where it is.

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Glynn

Sep 15, 2016

jasonh1965 said:
It should be under settings, then timer defaults or something like that. I'm not at home to look at the menu, but I'm pretty sure that's where it is.

Thanks. You're right. It's there. I had seen that and I had turned it on. I'm guessing that will only help me with new recordings since yesterday. All the stuff I transferred from my 722k will still need it.

Good to know though. Too bad there's no way to "smart prepare" what's already on the hard drive.

With any luck I'll get 3-4 more hours transferred in the next 24. Thanks again!

jasonh1965

Sep 15, 2016

Glynn said:
Thanks. You're right. It's there. I had seen that and I had turned it on. I'm guessing that will only help me with new recordings since yesterday. All the stuff I transferred from my 722k will still need it.

Good to know though. Too bad there's no way to "smart prepare" what's already on the hard drive.

With any luck I'll get 3-4 more hours transferred in the next 24. Thanks again!

I think you're right about it only helping with new recordings unfortunately. It does help a lot though when they are prepared. I transferred the entire new Star Wars movie in around 20 minutes because it was already prepared.

Glynn

Sep 15, 2016

jasonh1965 said:
I think you're right about it only helping with new recordings unfortunately. It does help a lot though when they are prepared. I transferred the entire new Star Wars movie in around 20 minutes because it was already prepared.

I just tested it out. Wow. I transferred a 2 hour show from last night in about 45 seconds.

Sounds like it's going to suck for a while but at least now I know. Not knowing the fix is the worst part!

They ought to clue in the people answering phones at Dish.

Thanks again!

jasonh1965

Sep 15, 2016

Glynn said:
I just tested it out. Wow. I transferred a 2 hour show from last night in about 45 seconds.

Sounds like it's going to suck for a while but at least now I know. Not knowing the fix is the worst part!

They ought to clue in the people answering phones at Dish.

Thanks again!

Great, glad the already prepared show worked so well for you. Now at least you have a little peace of mind that the equipment you just bought isn't a total waste of money.

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Fortyfiver

Nov 24, 2018

Hello, I'm trying to study and learn before asking questions so I didn't even look to see how old this thread is, but, I too am having the same identical problem and thought Inhad it fixed, after I learned from you all not to be connected to the network to transfer, by cancelling all of the pending queued uploads and starting over again (not reset) and the darn thing started transferring, so I was excited as hell. Well, it finished, then I went to do another one and it said hoppergo not connected and I haven't gotten it to work since, which hasn't been that long yet. My question, finally, is, to "break" it on, how do you do it? Just leave it plugged into the receiver for a couple days? I'm just now hooking it up for the first time. Well, I wasted my night last night with chatting

Fortyfiver

Nov 25, 2018

To sum it up, does a new HopperGo update itself for a couple days?

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Scott Greczkowski

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

Today at 10:09 AM

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmortfK0?feature=share

dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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