Adding (buying) and old plain receiver

[Chop-Chop]

I am trying to buy a used receiver (non-dvr) for an additional room in the house. I have a couple of questions I am hoping someone can answer.

Do all older models work on dish netwrok? Meaning If I buy a used one is there a model I need to stay away from that Dish will not activate?

Would dish charge me an additional monthly fee after I activate this receiver?

I may go for DVR for this room but only for the ones that don't charge monthly? Which models would that be?

Anything else to look out for?

 

[TheKrell]

Non-DVR fee DVRs are only the 501 and 508. Stay away from the 721's, the 7100/7200, and.. Ah... Can't remember which others are deactivated because of lack of support for the new G3 security cards.

You will definitely pay the additional receiver fee of $5/mo regardless.

 

[TheKrell]

I'd also recommend a 3-digit model number to get DishPro LNB and switch support.

 

[Mr Tony]

I agree

a 301 or 311 will work great for non-dvr SD options

 

[rthomp03]

Non-DVR fee DVRs are only the 501 and 508. Stay away from the 721's, the 7100/7200, and.. Ah... Can't remember which others are deactivated because of lack of support for the new G3 security cards.

You will definitely pay the additional receiver fee of $5/mo regardless.

What should my additional receiver fee be for my owned 211k?

 

[Mr Tony]

additional fee is $5 unless its the only receiver on the account

 

[rthomp03]

additional fee is $5 unless its the only receiver on the account

Thanks Iceberg, that's what I thought. They are trying to charge me $7/mo as though I'm leasing.

 

[navychop]

Don't do it. Dish is about to phase out non 8PSK receivers. Make sure any model you buy supports 8PSK. MPEG-4 support is desirable too, since eventually MPEG-2 will also be phased out.

 

[old corps]

Gotta barely used 311 for sale. I OWN it, it wasn't leased. If interested pm me. Can't use it on Eastern Arc, Western Arc only--110/119.

Ed

 

[Stargazer]

Don't worry about it not supporting 8PSK if you can get a non 8PSK receiver cheaper than one with 8PSK. Dish Network will have to swap your receiver out for a new one when they force everything to be 8PSK.

 

[TheKrell]

And unless my memory is worse than I thought, we've caught Iceberg in a mistake. The additional receiver fee for HD receivers such as the 211 is indeed $7 and not $5 like SD receivers. The lease fee is the same for either type.

 

[Mr Tony]

when I had Dish last they billed 5 bucks for all added receivers

but then the 622 was just out at the time

 

[Mr Tony]

Don't worry about it not supporting 8PSK if you can get a non 8PSK receiver cheaper than one with 8PSK. Dish Network will have to swap your receiver out for a new one when they force everything to be 8PSK.

The 311 supports 8psk

 

[Jim5506]

Receiver fee for the 211 is $7 because it is an HD receiver.

 

[Chop-Chop]

Ok so right now I have a 722 and a 622 leased but those are not charged an additional receiver fee well on the second one. Just a DVR fee two times.

Is that a mistake? :

I was planning on taking back one of the HDDVRs from that room since it hardly gets any trafic. But it sounds like I won't be shaving a fee.

I will be trading the DVR fee for an additional receiver fee but losing HD and DVR (not that everyone uses it)