You must be missing some satellites, then. I think the EPG is on all satellites, so a DVR should have a guide out 2 days or thereabouts. But the EEPG is not on all sats. Are you missing the satellite firmware downloads too?
Not sure what the EPG is. The guide works fine. I live in a very remote Alaskan "village" with a population of 10. The set up we use is very unique - 5 households share 1 - 6 foot dish for 110 and 119, and another 6 foot dish for 129. A total of 8 receivers on 5 separate accounts. 2 of the accounts have VIP612 DVR's , and neither one works properly (you can record what you watch, but you CANNOT record and watch something else). Check switch shows all 3 satellite's green. Tech flew out here from Anchorage (at great expense), looked everything over, switched out the DVR's, peaked the dish's, and determined if we want DVR's to work we need at least 2 more 6 foot dish's, apparently to much traffic on just the two dish's????????? If you go around and turn off all the receivers except one DVR, then it works as advertised. Kinda reiterating what the tech said.
Like I said above in post #8 my situation is VERY unique. The reason we all share a dish is because where the dish's have to point is blocked by a mountain. To get far enough away from the mountain to get the signal, the dish is almost in the ocean. Alaska elevation angle is something like 12 degrees. Very hard to get over a 1800 foot horizon (Mountain) when your at sea level, and live on the ocean.
Thanks for the help, sounds like 211k is what I will go with.
Rob