This is long but please hear me out:
Ok. So I have two Dish 500 systems that have been used in my household for about 4 years or so. One if used for a bedroom and one is used for the living room. Every now and then I like to move one of the receivers to my room so I can watch TV in my own room. This has been working out fine for quite some time now. Eventually I actually installed a splitter in the other bedroom and put a coxial cable from it to my room. That way I don't have to set up a single coxial cable every time I want to watch TV in my room. Just two days ago I moved the receiver from the living to my room to watch my usual routine TV. It worked just fine. Later that night I put the receiver back out in the living room and reconnected everything. When I powered on the receiver it kept trying to acquire the satellite signal. The progress just stayed on 0 of 5. No matter how hard I tried I simply could not get the receiver to get a satellite signal anymore. I even tried changing coxial cables. I tried about 4 different ones and still had the same result. The strange thing was, the second receiver I have still worked perfectly. I even took the second receiver and put it out in the living room, powered it on, and it worked just fine still. So then I got a strange idea. I took the splitter out of the bedroom and installed it in the living room. Then I connected the bedroom receiver to the splitter, and the living room receiver to the splitter as well. To my surprise, both receivers worked fine. Then I disconnected the bedroom receiver from the splitter, and the living room one then stopped working. Then I reconnected the bedroom receiver to the splitter again and the living room one started working again. Heres whats even stranger. While I still had this whole setup going I tried just turing off the bedroom receiver. And surprisingly the living room one still continued to work. Then I unplugged the bedroom receiver and well... the living room one quit working. Then I plugged it back in and the living room one was working again. So I am REALLY stumped here. So yea. Theres my story. Can anyone tell me what in the world is going on? Please, and Thank you!
Ok. So I have two Dish 500 systems that have been used in my household for about 4 years or so. One if used for a bedroom and one is used for the living room. Every now and then I like to move one of the receivers to my room so I can watch TV in my own room. This has been working out fine for quite some time now. Eventually I actually installed a splitter in the other bedroom and put a coxial cable from it to my room. That way I don't have to set up a single coxial cable every time I want to watch TV in my room. Just two days ago I moved the receiver from the living to my room to watch my usual routine TV. It worked just fine. Later that night I put the receiver back out in the living room and reconnected everything. When I powered on the receiver it kept trying to acquire the satellite signal. The progress just stayed on 0 of 5. No matter how hard I tried I simply could not get the receiver to get a satellite signal anymore. I even tried changing coxial cables. I tried about 4 different ones and still had the same result. The strange thing was, the second receiver I have still worked perfectly. I even took the second receiver and put it out in the living room, powered it on, and it worked just fine still. So then I got a strange idea. I took the splitter out of the bedroom and installed it in the living room. Then I connected the bedroom receiver to the splitter, and the living room receiver to the splitter as well. To my surprise, both receivers worked fine. Then I disconnected the bedroom receiver from the splitter, and the living room one then stopped working. Then I reconnected the bedroom receiver to the splitter again and the living room one started working again. Heres whats even stranger. While I still had this whole setup going I tried just turing off the bedroom receiver. And surprisingly the living room one still continued to work. Then I unplugged the bedroom receiver and well... the living room one quit working. Then I plugged it back in and the living room one was working again. So I am REALLY stumped here. So yea. Theres my story. Can anyone tell me what in the world is going on? Please, and Thank you!