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zippyfrog

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Last reply Sep 9, 2019 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

NFL Redzone Question

I was looking at the free preview page, and NFL Redzone is in free preview the first two weeks of the season.

Free Channel Previews | MyDISH | DISH Customer Support

However, underneath the free preview it says "Always available with NFL RedZone or Multi-Sport Pack." Is it possible to get NFL Redzone as a standalone channel now? Or is the way it is on the site misleading and it is only with multisport pack?

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DISH Support

Sep 3, 2019

zippyfrog said:
I was looking at the free preview page, and NFL Redzone is in free preview the first two weeks of the season.

Free Channel Previews | MyDISH | DISH Customer Support

However, underneath the free preview it says "Always available with NFL RedZone or Multi-Sport Pack." Is it possible to get NFL Redzone as a standalone channel now? Or is the way it is on the site misleading and it is only with multisport pack?

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We definitely don't want there to be any confusion. At this time, the Redzone is not available as a standalone subscription channel.The NFL Redzone is currently only available with the Multi-Sport Pack with Redzone. I will get this forwarded so we can get the information corrected. -Jasmine D.

Claude Greiner

Sep 4, 2019

DISH Support said:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We definitely don't want there to be any confusion. At this time, the Redzone is not available as a standalone subscription channel.The NFL Redzone is currently only available with the Multi-Sport Pack with Redzone. I will get this forwarded so we can get the information corrected. -Jasmine D.

I had a customer try to do the exact same thing with Comcast today without getting a base package.

The Fat Man

Sep 4, 2019

Claude Greiner said:
I had a customer try to do the exact same thing with Comcast today without getting a base package.

Because how dare customers try to pay for a channel a la carte? That's the issue with the providers. Everything needs to be bundled in a package. Charge us the going rate for the channel. We want to pay it, then so be it.

Especially with Comcast. The same company that doesn't bundle The Movie Channel with Showtime, and charges the same going rate for two channels of The Movie Channel as they charge for seven channels of HBO, yet how dare us customers ask to order Red Zone a la carte.

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Claude Greiner

Sep 8, 2019

The Fat Man said:
Because how dare customers try to pay for a channel a la carte? That's the issue with the providers. Everything needs to be bundled in a package. Charge us the going rate for the channel. We want to pay it, then so be it.

Especially with Comcast. The same company that doesn't bundle The Movie Channel with Showtime, and charges the same going rate for two channels of The Movie Channel as they charge for seven channels of HBO, yet how dare us customers ask to order Red Zone a la carte.

And why should they offer it a la carte?

It's bad enough they got customers who subscribe to internet only and try to stream everything or get their video elsewhere.

I don't think any provider is restricted from selling it a la carte, but when customers demand free installation, free equipment and everything else there is no way a provider will allow a customer to get just 1 channel.

Take Sunday Ticket for example. How many customers want Directv just for Sunday Ticket. It's not happening. A base package is always required

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Rolling Joe

Sep 8, 2019

The Fat Man said:
Because how dare customers try to pay for a channel a la carte? That's the issue with the providers. Everything needs to be bundled in a package. Charge us the going rate for the channel. We want to pay it, then so be it.

On the other hand, if you take the monthly cost of the Multi Sports pack over four months and divide that by sixteen weeks, the cost of Red Zone is $3.25 per Sunday. Even less if you wait until the free preview is over. A bargain....and you get all those blacked out Fox RSN's thrown in for Free!

If Dish ever offers it a-la-carte, I'll bet it would cost at least five bucks per Sunday.

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KaptainRandom

Sep 8, 2019

Rolling Joe said:
On the other hand, if you take the monthly cost of the Multi Sports pack over four months and divide that by sixteen weeks, the cost of Red Zone is $3.25 per Sunday. Even less if you wait until the free preview is over. A bargain....and you get all those blacked out Fox RSN's thrown in for Free!

If Dish ever offers it a-la-carte, I'll bet it would cost at least five bucks per Sunday.

Don't forget
sign up for sport pack,
Call to cancel sport pack,
Get sporr pack reduced to 1/2 price.

Even less per Sunday.

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Bruce

Sep 8, 2019

Claude Greiner said:
It's bad enough they got customers who subscribe to internet only and try to stream everything or get their video elsewhere.

What is wrong if we stream everything or get our video elsewhere, if i am correct, I believe Comcast internet only customers are the most profitable for them.

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ChadT41

Sep 8, 2019

theBruce said:
What is wrong if we stream everything or get our video elsewhere, if i am correct, I believe Comcast internet only customers are the most profitable for them.

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I wish I could find the article, but it was only 2-3 years ago someone had written about how internet only customers are 80% profit. The lines are amortized so well, and subsidized so well, it is almost pure profit. But never leave a dollar on the table. Which is where tv subscribers and phone bundles come in.

Juan

Sep 9, 2019

Easy peasy...buy the sports pack...then lock out everyother channel but redzone...price will be similar to ala carte

The Fat Man said:
Because how dare customers try to pay for a channel a la carte? That's the issue with the providers. Everything needs to be bundled in a package. Charge us the going rate for the channel. We want to pay it, then so be it.

Especially with Comcast. The same company that doesn't bundle The Movie Channel with Showtime, and charges the same going rate for two channels of The Movie Channel as they charge for seven channels of HBO, yet how dare us customers ask to order Red Zone a la carte.

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply 42 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne

Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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98.6 - Keith

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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine

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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

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy0WnejlF4

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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.

www.dailymail.com