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I just got my dish network equipment installed today. I am happy with the service but not with the placement of my receivers (dvr625 and 322). The contractors placed them where they recommended but i'm not happy with it.


I currently have the dvr in my room and its second tuner is powering the two tv's downstairs. The tv's downstairs share the second tuner. The remote doesnt work all the time downstairs. Which is the main problem.

I have a 322 in the next bedroom and its second tuner is powering the tv in the living room. I'd like to power my room and the next bedroom w/ the 322. i'd like to have the 625 power the living room and the two tv's below it in the family room. the installers said that in order to change it all around i'd have to have them come out a second time. I dont want to be billed again.

Could i make these changes myself?

Each tuner has a diplexer hooked up to it. They were mentioning that the tv's without a receiver are "back feeds".

Also, they said their decision to place the receivers was because of a phone jack. Do these receivers have to be plugged in?
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Agibby, not trying to be too harsh here, but my question is why did you let them put the equipment where you did not want it? Careful with trying to rewire everything, if you mess it up too bad and then call for service, you may get the old addage that you voided the warranty by trying to fix everything yourself. I would try calling dish and see if they would send a tech out to relocate the units for you. The sad thing is, they will probaby tell you that you signed off on the job. This is why I always recommend to people that they use a local dealer or retailer and try to get a site survey prior to installation, everything is agreed upon prior to installation. I always visit with the customer at their house prior to selling a system, no suprises for me and they know EXACTLY what the installation will involve.
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wobbie

you're not being too harsh at all... I just wasnt informed about what EXACTLY was going on during the install. They asked me what rooms I wanted to have powered by the 625 and what rooms by the 322. I told them and they went outside to do the dish install. They came back inside and asked where the phone jacks were at and I told them... They put the receivers where they THOUGHT they were best. At the beginning, I was under the assumption that they were bringing 4 receivers, one per room...(influenced by my previous experience w/ Direct tv a couple years ago). When they were installing the receivers i mentioned that i didnt like the rooms that they were going in. THe installers said "well, we already ran the COAX... The "back feeds" are downstairs and the receivers are going upstairs in the two bedrooms." End of story.
Liquidforce88
Call DIsh and complain. They will send them back out to fix it. If the installers gives you any trouble send him on his way and call Dish again.

As a DNSC tech that is not the way to take care of a customer. We go over every part of the install before doing anything. They should have told you how they were going to do the install first. If they need phone lines in the other locations they can install them (there will be a charge for the phone install).

Call Dish before you mess things up.
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Agibby, iof your coax is all "home ran" to a central distribution point, it should'nt be too difficult to switch the rooms that the revievers are in and back fed to. the receivers do need to be continuosly coneccted to a phone line or Dish will charge the a $4.99 additional outlet fee for each reciever that is not. Have you any idea how the coax is ran?? I'm guessing you called an 800# or bought the system thru the internet. Don't get me wrong.. I have had Dish for the last three years and would never go back to cable or anything else. I just hate the idea of people ordering service via the internet or 800# and end up having a bad experience with the installation. Keep us posted if you call Dish as to what they say. Just curious... where are you located???
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wobbie,

There are two coax cables running to the receivers in the bedrooms. there is another coax running around the house to the other side where it comes into the basement to back feed the other three locations (two are mirror images) via a three way splitter. they start out at a box where the cables from the satellite dishes enter. there is a two way splitter and two diplexers in that box.

i ordered the dish service from the 1-800 number.

gibby
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Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
Scott Greczkowski
Washington Post

SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
Can't remember where or who I saw predict this. :D

It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
Bruce
It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
Scott Greczkowski
Again, why would Musk want a TV Service, specially one that is losing over a million subscribers a year.

Phone service…maybe, but not TV.
I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
Bruce
I know he wants TV. He wants to deliver EVERYTHING to EVERYWHERE.
Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
Bruce
Bruce
Washington Post

SpaceX has held talks with Boost's parent company EchoStar in recent months about launching its own signature wireless service through a deal with the company, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Musk, the SpaceX CEO, has discussed the deal personally, meeting with EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen last month, according to the people. The potential deal may result in SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile or SpaceX gaining access to its network, which it leases from AT&T and T-Mobile US, the people said.
Access to those lease agreements would be a coup for SpaceX. The back door would allow Musk to make a play for a U.S. wireless market that equity research firm MoffettNathanson estimates is worth $235 billion. But the proposed service may need consent from those carriers for the service to actually launch, the people said.
If Musk really wants to buy Boost, he might get a great price once Dish Wireless is out of Chapter 11.

Boost just lost 182,000 subs in the 3rd quarter-

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Is Dish like Iran in one way...they both will totally collapse by end of week :)
Foxbat
Other than the price, my experience with Boost is not that different than what I experienced with my years with Cricket. I will be curious to see what happens if SpaceX takes the reins.
S
Again, if so, why would he want Dish/Sling of all the providers?

He could deliver anything without actually owning, for example, watching the Lions game in my Tesla Y on it's screen via the YT app, while on the way to my future in-laws on Sunday.
dish has new sats dtv does not
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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I loved it when Rodney was on the Tonight Show...
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
Thanks, I wasn't sure if you had the wrong Subject or the wrong YouTube link.
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Was a Don Rickles fan. I've dvr'd most of his appearances on Carson from the antenna tv replays.

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More Dangerfield rapid fire on Carson.


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primestar31

Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
Bruce
Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
At theaters, only in Japanese, on Disc and Netflix, available in English.
Foxbat
New trailer has dropped:
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long_time_Dish
Looks good! I'm interested...