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We moved into a new house last fall and Dish moved the service.
As part of the installation the tech swapped Wireless Joey Access Point to a new model. The Hopper is now in a a bedroom separated by a kitchen wall with the joeys being less than 30' from the hopper. The installer concluded that the AP-JOEY wifi signal was inadequate (50%) and used an orphan cable tv connector to add a MOCA-Ethernet bridge and connected the AP. This put the AP no more than 15' from either Joey.
The connection to one or both is randomly dropped. The Joey goes black and then puts up a screen that says to go to the AP and use the button. I just navigate to the network settings page and reset the net (which says it will reset the Hopper-router link but appears to reset the Joey-AP link). It comes back. If I ignore it it will take several minutes and self recover. It usually happens once a day, sometimes more often.
Since proximity didn't change I moved the AP back to be adjacent to the Hopper since where he put the MOCA-Ethernet box was horrible (I wouldn't have let him had he asked) since it was in the middle of some statues. The Joey still has a signal strength of 45-60. It still drops the link but at the same frequency as when it was adjacent.
This never happened with the old AP which we had for over 12 years. And the Joeys were on two levels at least 50' and 4 walls from the AP... Signal strength for them was in the 35-50% range and we never ever lost the AP-Joey link.
I assert that there is some kind of interference that is causing the new AP to lose the link. The area has at least 20 different WIFI networks in range of my internet AP so there is alot of traffic...
An additional thing that happend was an extreme latency in remote control activity. Before this AP the skip forward and backwards had a small, coulpe of milliseconds, latency vs. the remote on the Hopper. With the new AP, remote response is up to several seconds. In fact, I've had it take longer to respond than the skip! I've had it take 45 seconds to do a 30 second forward and it is quite frequent that a 10 second reverse to take more than 10 seconds, and it's typically around 3 seconds... I lay this on the wifi link. The video doesn't stutter but that can be because it buffers internally enough to ride through these.
So two questions:
1. Does anyone else have this same problem?
2. Can I get an old AP back (I asked Dish and they said they couldn't.)
Frankly this is getting annoying enough that I'm for the first time in 30 years, considering dropping dish...
the only reason I have dish is for the DVR...
As part of the installation the tech swapped Wireless Joey Access Point to a new model. The Hopper is now in a a bedroom separated by a kitchen wall with the joeys being less than 30' from the hopper. The installer concluded that the AP-JOEY wifi signal was inadequate (50%) and used an orphan cable tv connector to add a MOCA-Ethernet bridge and connected the AP. This put the AP no more than 15' from either Joey.
The connection to one or both is randomly dropped. The Joey goes black and then puts up a screen that says to go to the AP and use the button. I just navigate to the network settings page and reset the net (which says it will reset the Hopper-router link but appears to reset the Joey-AP link). It comes back. If I ignore it it will take several minutes and self recover. It usually happens once a day, sometimes more often.
Since proximity didn't change I moved the AP back to be adjacent to the Hopper since where he put the MOCA-Ethernet box was horrible (I wouldn't have let him had he asked) since it was in the middle of some statues. The Joey still has a signal strength of 45-60. It still drops the link but at the same frequency as when it was adjacent.
This never happened with the old AP which we had for over 12 years. And the Joeys were on two levels at least 50' and 4 walls from the AP... Signal strength for them was in the 35-50% range and we never ever lost the AP-Joey link.
I assert that there is some kind of interference that is causing the new AP to lose the link. The area has at least 20 different WIFI networks in range of my internet AP so there is alot of traffic...
An additional thing that happend was an extreme latency in remote control activity. Before this AP the skip forward and backwards had a small, coulpe of milliseconds, latency vs. the remote on the Hopper. With the new AP, remote response is up to several seconds. In fact, I've had it take longer to respond than the skip! I've had it take 45 seconds to do a 30 second forward and it is quite frequent that a 10 second reverse to take more than 10 seconds, and it's typically around 3 seconds... I lay this on the wifi link. The video doesn't stutter but that can be because it buffers internally enough to ride through these.
So two questions:
1. Does anyone else have this same problem?
2. Can I get an old AP back (I asked Dish and they said they couldn't.)
Frankly this is getting annoying enough that I'm for the first time in 30 years, considering dropping dish...
the only reason I have dish is for the DVR...
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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....
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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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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I remember this in the news too...
www.nbcnews.com
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
www.nbcnews.com
That is a misnomer. In the old days you subscribed to telephone service. That included the telephone line and one telephone. An extension cost $1 a month extra. So that $14,000 over 42 years was for the service not the leased telephone. There is no way they paid $28 a month for 42 years for a leased telephone.I remember this in the news too...
$14,000 spent on rented rotary phone
A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now- outdated phone.
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Schedule drops tomorrow. Mandatory mini camps in June. Hall of Fame game August 6th.
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I haven't posted in almost 17 years. Over the air, sat, offline, anything-but-the-internet is still one of my avid pursuits. Been playing with offline tv viewing and offline web browsing. I have great appreciations for this site still being here. It's so hard to find public communities that haven't sold out to social media company.
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Hello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank 
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Take the cover off, show me pics of the board of the bad one and also the bottom of the board. I'm an old hardware electronics tech plus a satellite dealer; I fixed a lot of FTA and regular receivers. I may be able to fix it for you. And yes, they got hit by lightning; it's best to email me the pics at diamondsatellite@snet.net or call me at 203-232-8888. I give you a 50-50 chance of fixing it; I do have spare parts. my phone is a fliptop phoneHello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank
Gary
More room for the return of the Plague & Pestilence?
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a good surge protector will help to.Hello folks, well my luck ran out last week with a nasty thunderstorm and after 39 years here, finally took a hit. Now, the FTA receivers I had for some years worked great until now. Recently picked up a fairly cheap receiver, online, KOQIT and seems to be good, but for the life of me, I cannot get the HDMI output to work with 3 of my Samsung monitors. I can hook it up to my Samsung TV and its HDMI input and it works fine. The 2 receivers I lost also worked fine with them, so am I going crazy? anyone have come across this or have any suggestions? And, since this is a somewhat cheap unit but works, what is everyone out there using for receivers these days? without breaking the bank? I enjoy watching FTA TV, so I will invest more if needed, what is a really good, detailed unit these days. I'm so use to watching a few of them HD channels. Right now I'm down to composite hookups, yuck! Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank
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Now that I'm retired, obviously I have different health care insurance. I take 2 prescriptions. With my old insurance I didn't have to pay for either of them, now I do. It's not a huge amount but it led me to dig a little into the cost of prescription medications. I have been using Walgreens for the longest time. But what I found was that Walgreens price is 4.8 times more for one of my prescriptions and the other is 2.3 percent more compared to the lowest price pharmacy. If you pay for prescription medications you might want to have a look at trumprx and see if you can get a lower price.
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Actually I take just 2 prescriptions, Atorvastatin and Lisinopril. They cost me $6 each for 100 pills. Next year that will be nothing.That's ok. I probably take enough for the two of us.
God knows what Bobby takes. Maybe so much they count as a meal?
