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I wanted to follow up with this. I talked to Dish tech support three different times and the last two people said they would "report" the problem to engineering and that it was a known issue with others having the same complaint. They never offered to send anyone out to the house so I finally called a local Dish retailer. He decided to redo the wire from the wall coax outlet to the crawl space from RG59 to RG6. Even though it was a short run of RG59, he still felt it could be causing the problem. He said a weak signal line couldn't support the 16 tuners and therefore was likely causing the problem. So far, that has fixed the problem. Dish Tech Support never called back or followed up with any solution. For all they know we are rebooting our Hopper 4-5 times a day still.

Link said:

I wanted to follow up with this. I talked to Dish tech support three different times and the last two people said they would "report" the problem to engineering and that it was a known issue with others having the same complaint. They never offered to send anyone out to the house so I finally called a local Dish retailer. He decided to redo the wire from the wall coax outlet to the crawl space from RG59 to RG6. Even though it was a short run of RG59, he still felt it could be causing the problem. He said a weak signal line couldn't support the 16 tuners and therefore was likely causing the problem. So far, that has fixed the problem. Dish Tech Support never called back or followed up with any solution. For all they know we are rebooting our Hopper 4-5 times a day still.

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Wait, you had RG59 running to the Hopper? That's the exact problem. The Hopper needs 3Ghz cable because unlike legacy, which I think uses up to 1800Mhz or VIP, which uses up to 21Mhz, the Hopper uses the entire 3000Mhz spectrum.

HipKat said:

Wait, you had RG59 running to the Hopper? That's the exact problem. The Hopper needs 3Ghz cable because unlike legacy, which I think uses up to 1800Mhz or VIP, which uses up to 21Mhz, the Hopper uses the entire 3000Mhz spectrum.

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The coax wall outlet in the house were RG59. The wires all come together under the house. The coax wire from the dish outside had been run under the house to the Hybrid Solo Hub and then the RG59 wire from it to the wall outlet. This was corrected. I don't know why the installer didn't do that when the Hopper 3 was put in.

Link said:

The coax wall outlet in the house were RG59. The wires all come together under the house. The coax wire from the dish outside had been run under the house to the Hybrid Solo Hub and then the RG59 wire from it to the wall outlet. This was corrected. I don't know why the installer didn't do that when the Hopper 3 was put in.

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Because he was lazy. Period.

HipKat said:

Because he was lazy. Period.

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Probably...my cousin had such a bad technician a few weeks back for a new install...they got the old Hopper and the dish wasn't put on the house correctly. Another one had to come back and install a second dish for some reason...we need 119, 110, and 129 in this area. People don't have two dishes outside.

Link said:

Probably...my cousin had such a bad technician a few weeks back for a new install...they got the old Hopper and the dish wasn't put on the house correctly. Another one had to come back and install a second dish for some reason...we need 119, 110, and 129 in this area. People don't have two dishes outside.

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There was no issues with line of sight? I've used 2 dishes from 2 different spots to get all 3 sets in, but regardless, I follow poor work all the time and I have no patience for laziness. You have to live with what I do at your house.

Link said:

I wanted to follow up with this. I talked to Dish tech support three different times and the last two people said they would "report" the problem to engineering and that it was a known issue with others having the same complaint. They never offered to send anyone out to the house so I finally called a local Dish retailer. He decided to redo the wire from the wall coax outlet to the crawl space from RG59 to RG6. Even though it was a short run of RG59, he still felt it could be causing the problem. He said a weak signal line couldn't support the 16 tuners and therefore was likely causing the problem. So far, that has fixed the problem. Dish Tech Support never called back or followed up with any solution. For all they know we are rebooting our Hopper 4-5 times a day still.

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Is your Hopper connected to the internet? If so, they can tell that you are no longer rebooting it.

We were losing connection between one or both of our Joeys regularly. It began at a rate of once a month and then got steadily worse until it was several times a day. Each time we had to reset the Hopper and the Joeys to get it working. I concluded there was a problem with the WAP (wireless access point), the small black box connected to the Hopper). I also found from another thread on this topic that the tech used the old DirecTV RG59 cable from the antenna to the jack inside the house. RG59 MUST NOT be used for newer Dish equipment because it does not have adequate bandwidth to support the 3GHz signals. RG6 must be used instead. You can tell the difference by the size of the cable (RG59 is 0.25" in diameter, RG6 is 0.275"). There should also be labelling on the cable. Replacing both the RG59 and the WAP solved the problem (I suspect that replacing the RG59 alone would have fixed it but wasn't going to go thru the trouble of two separate service calls).
Getting Dish to send out a tech was not easy because they would not do anything about it unless we paid $95 for a service call. Dish said our equipment was out of warranty. I asked to speak to a supervisor (I figured we were renting their equipment which was defective) and she gave me 3 months free of the Dish Protect plan (I have to cancel it or I will be charged $10 per month after 3 months). If they don't do this for you sign up for Dish Protect and cancel it after the equipment is repaired.
This all started on a Saturday and Dish had a tech out the next day - a Sunday, so I was very impressed with that part of the ordeal!