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wvman

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Last reply May 9, 2018 · posted in C-BAND Satellite Discussion

Firmware Update On A Linkbox 9000i

Is it better to update this receiver over the internet than using a stick drive? I guess what I'm wanting to know is if it goes through the whole procedure if you use the internet option. I know I'll need to back up my channel list, but is that all that's necessary to avoid some of the problems that occur with USB updates? Also, what is the latest firmware version for this receiver?

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norman881

Apr 25, 2018

wvman said:
Is it better to update this receiver over the internet than using a stick drive? I guess what I'm wanting to know is if it goes through the whole procedure if you use the internet option. I know I'll need to back up my channel list, but is that all that's necessary to avoid some of the problems that occur with USB updates? Also, what is the latest firmware version for this receiver?

The latest FW is v160. I've always updated mine locally from a USB stick.

wvman

Apr 26, 2018

norman881 said:
The latest FW is v160. I've always updated mine locally from a USB stick.

Thanks for the info. I've never updated this receiver yet, but some of the others I have seemed to go a little easier if it could be done via the auto download function over the internet. Some offer that option, others don't. I can't remember which receiver it was, I think it was the HDVR 3500, ended up in a boot loop. Another one I had bricked out when I used the USB update. Never could get it back up, but the manufacturer replaced it with one that had the latest firmware.

norman881

Apr 26, 2018

wvman said:
Thanks for the info. I've never updated this receiver yet, but some of the others I have seemed to go a little easier if it could be done via the auto download function over the internet. Some offer that option, others don't. I can't remember which receiver it was, I think it was the HDVR 3500, ended up in a boot loop. Another one I had bricked out when I used the USB update. Never could get it back up, but the manufacturer replaced it with one that had the latest firmware.

I have updated mine 4 times since I got it. I put it into the boot loop 3 times before I started using a USB stick.

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kittyhas1000legs

Apr 27, 2018

I've updated mine a few times, always over the network. No boot loops, but I still don't have a working clock...

wvman

Apr 27, 2018

norman881 said:
I have updated mine 4 times since I got it. I put it into the boot loop 3 times before I started using a USB stick.

When you updated yours, did you find any fixes or added features? I haven't had much luck with the IPTV stuff. I don't care about the X-Rated junk, but the channels like National Geographics and some of the others interest me, but I keep getting incompatable file, format or some other junk like that. YouTube used to work, but I can't get it to work now. I haven't had much luck getting the wireless connection to work either. Works great hard wired.

wvman

Apr 27, 2018

kittyhas1000legs said:
I've updated mine a few times, always over the network. No boot loops, but I still don't have a working clock...

I haven't owned a receiver yet where the clock kept time. It would be nice that way I could set the recorder and let it start recording when I want it to. I don't suppose the programmers on FTA transmit the guide info. It does work when I find scrambled channels ITC. I have a friend I talk to almost every day, and he keeps me up to speed on what's on, at least the ones DISH carries, like MeTV, Grit, etc. I might give it a try to update the firmware later today. Hopefully everything will go as planned.

I haven't had luck for crap lately. My 75 inch TV went tits up yesterday evening. Got grey shadows in the picture, and went off later flashing a code on the power light. Flashes 6 times, whatever that means. That's 2 Sony TV's I've had go down, and it will be the last for me. No more Sony TV's. I'm going this evening to get a new 75 inch LG 4K curved screen with the OLED diodes. We'll see how that baby looks.

norman881

Apr 27, 2018

wvman said:
When you updated yours, did you find any fixes or added features? I haven't had much luck with the IPTV stuff. I don't care about the X-Rated junk, but the channels like National Geographics and some of the others interest me, but I keep getting incompatable file, format or some other junk like that. YouTube used to work, but I can't get it to work now. I haven't had much luck getting the wireless connection to work either. Works great hard wired.

I have a Roku box in my system, so I've never used any of the Internet features on the Linkbox. The Roku remote is much quicker for me to use.

wvman

May 4, 2018

norman881 said:
I have a Roku box in my system, so I've never used any of the Internet features on the Linkbox. The Roku remote is much quicker for me to use.

Yeah, I kind of gave up on hooking it to the internet after not being able to connect to most of the stuff it found. It was just a novelty anyway. Hows your remote work on the 9000i? Mine is very touchy about being aimed dead at the receiver. I thought the batteries were low, but when I changed them, nothing changed. My living room is 23 feet long and I'm shooting clear across the room at the STB.

I had a bad week last week. My 65 inch Sony went tits up. We were watching it, and it just went off and started flashing a 6 flash code on the power light. According to what I can find on the net, it has a power supply problem. If I unplug it, plug it back in and turn it back on, it will come on for a few seconds and go back off and start flashing the code. I don't think there's much wrong with it, but I'm going this weekend to get another TV,

No more Sony TV's. That's the second one that died on me. I have an LG that's three years older than this one, and it's working just fine.

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norman881

May 4, 2018

wvman said:
Yeah, I kind of gave up on hooking it to the internet after not being able to connect to most of the stuff it found. It was just a novelty anyway. Hows your remote work on the 9000i? Mine is very touchy about being aimed dead at the receiver. I thought the batteries were low, but when I changed them, nothing changed. My living room is 23 feet long and I'm shooting clear across the room at the STB.

I had a bad week last week. My 65 inch Sony went tits up. We were watching it, and it just went off and started flashing a 6 flash code on the power light. According to what I can find on the net, it has a power supply problem. If I unplug it, plug it back in and turn it back on, it will come on for a few seconds and go back off and start flashing the code. I don't think there's much wrong with it, but I'm going this weekend to get another TV,

No more Sony TV's. That's the second one that died on me. I have an LG that's three years older than this one, and it's working just fine.

My remote works fine. I've changed the batteries 1 time in 2.5 years. Ouch! on the 65 inch.

wvman

May 9, 2018

norman881 said:
My remote works fine. I've changed the batteries 1 time in 2.5 years. Ouch! on the 65 inch.

I'm getting ready to spend $1500 on a new 70 inch UHD curved screen LG TV. I'll put my 55 inch back in the bedroom when I get it. My living room is 23 feet long and the 55 inch is a little under sized after watching a 65 inch. One thing i do like about the Linkbox is the fact that you can cut the contrast back on the TV and turn it up on the receiver without overdriving the TV.

I run mine in vivid mode, and when you turn up the contrast on the TV or 100%, the voltage increases to the LED's and shortens their life. The back light shouldn't be at 100% either. I adjust the color by turning the color all the way off and adjust the black level until it's correct, and then turn the color up just enough to make everything pop after adding the color back. If you find a color bar test screen, there should be a black line between the color bars.

If you can see them, the sharpness in correct. Best to use a 1080I or P channel.

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Bobby

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Last reply 22 minutes ago · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Dish 4K Event Listings (No Discussion)

This is a thread that will keep you apprised of 4K events that will be showing on Dish channel 540. Keep looking here for information.

As of today, 9-27-17, there are no scheduled events posted for the next 2 weeks. That is subject to change on a daily basis.

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Bobby

Sunday at 11:00 AM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Wednesday 10-14, 5PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Tuesday at 8:48 PM

MLB, Brewers at Dodgers, Thursday 10-15, 6PM PDT, Channel 148-02.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:50 PM

CFB, Notre Dame at BYU, Saturday 10-27, 4:30PM PDT, Channel 148-03.

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Bobby

Tuesday at 8:52 PM

NASCAR, Freeway Insurance 500, Sunday 10-18, 12PM PDT, Channel 148-04.

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Bobby

22 minutes ago

CFB, Ohio State at Indiana, Saturday 10-17, 9AM PDT, Channel 148-01.
CFB, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Saturday 10-17, 12:30PM PDT, Channel 148-01.

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Former member 209992

Last reply 38 minutes ago · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center

Site is slooooow

For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.

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Foxbat

Today at 1:22 PM

Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

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Scott Greczkowski

Today at 2:49 PM

I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now.

We are rocking now!

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Foxbat

41 minutes ago

Foxbat said:
Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.

I rebooted my MacBook Air and it's zipping right along. Sorry, but it was taking over 20 seconds to load pages, with the pulsing blue bars so it was munching on something.

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Scott Greczkowski

41 minutes ago

Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

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38 minutes ago

Scott Greczkowski said:
Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.

WTF… …What the Foxbat!

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dishstaller

Pub Member / Supporter Lifetime Supporter

Last reply 49 minutes ago · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum

Hughesnet cancelling email addresses

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.

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Foxbat

Today at 2:37 PM

Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…

dishstaller

Today at 2:57 PM

Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.

navychop

Today at 3:16 PM

Foxbat said:
If Earth had shorter days,

Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

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Foxbat

49 minutes ago

navychop said:
Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?

Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 3:00 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Man falls to his death on roller coaster at 6 Flags in GA

Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.

Dad levitated and bled then fell to his death from coaster

Eyewitnesses have shared fresh details of the horrific accident that happened at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday afternoon.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:02 PM

Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:10 PM

Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Incredibly sad news out of Six Flags Over Georgia as it’s being reported one man was killed after being ejected from Goliath, the B&M hyper coaster. Many news outlets have posted pictures of pe…

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navychop

Yesterday at 11:17 PM

Jimbo said:
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.

dishstaller

Today at 10:07 AM

Jimbo said:
Could B&M’s Patent on the “Clamshell” Ride Restraint Design Offer Clues as to What Happened on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia?

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Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

Jimbo

Today at 2:18 PM

dishstaller said:
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.

It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.

Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...

NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system

I'm glad to see ...

dishstaller

Today at 3:00 PM

Jimbo said:
with a Seat belt as last resort.

According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.

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Ham Radio 2.0

Today at 2:52 PM · posted in Ham Radio 2.0

Kenwood TM-D750 vs ICOM ID-5200: Don't Buy One Before Watching This!

Time for another AWESOME video from Ham Radio 2.0!

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Houston Rockets

Last reply Today at 2:39 PM · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support

OTHER Mini Multiswitch

I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....

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Titanium

Today at 2:00 PM

Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.

Houston Rockets

Today at 2:39 PM

No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's

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Tech News Weekly 459

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!

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TheRatPatrol

Last reply Today at 2:13 PM · posted in TV Shows

NCIS

Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?

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TheRatPatrol

Monday at 11:11 AM

Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:47 AM

TheRatPatrol said:
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.

Was Gibbs still there when you quit watching ?
If so, A Lot has happened ....

It's been pretty good all along , once you get use to Gibbs being gone.

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Jimbo

Monday at 11:41 PM