Canadian - audit worries

[javier911]

So I was just about ready to subscribe but now I am reading some threads about audits and it has me worried. Being in Canada I don't know if it's safe to connect the receiver to my phone or even my internet. I have read that if its not connected for long periods of time, you'll draw and audit. With a 2 year commitment for promos, that scares me.

I was considering getting a really cheap VOIP line with US number and leaving it connected to that occasionally, but not always. I don't want to leave it always connected because I don't want someone buying a PPV or something and then my American friend might get mad about additional charges showing up on his CC.

Any thoughts or opinions? Thanks.

 

[Claude Greiner]

If you only have 1 receiver there are no issues.

The problem starts when you put multiple receivers on the account and start putting them in multiple homes and connecting the receivers to phone and or Internet.

 

[TheKrell]

And furthermore you can have your PPV credit limit reduced to $0. Then nobody can successfully order any PPV or VOD on that account.

 

[thedamaja]

You can also lock PPV on the receiver itself.

 

[pabeader]

except for channel 1

 

[n0qcu]

except for channel 1

That may be fixed, still hidden after 2 weeks.

 

[javier911]

If you only have 1 receiver there are no issues.

The problem starts when you put multiple receivers on the account and start putting them in multiple homes and connecting the receivers to phone and or Internet.

I am only getting one receiver, but I may want to add second in a few months. There's a slight chance I'll want to add a 3rd for my garage at a later date, but I don't see myself ever going past 3. I guess if I do that I'll have to run the VOIP lines to the other, or rotate the receivers ocasionally to the spot where the VOIP device is.

 

[pabeader]

as long as they are VIP receviers you can share the one phoneline amongst them. through the poweroline

 

[Bob Haller]

as long as they are VIP receviers you can share the one phoneline amongst them. through the poweroline

but if a neighbor had dishcom too their receiver can fink on yours.....

 

[ramimac]

I do not believe the networking will pass through the main breaker. I know for a fact it does not for Ethernet over power line

 

[chicagonettech]

I do not believe the networking will pass through the main breaker. I know for a fact it does not for Ethernet over power line

Don't discount your neighbors receivers!

Networking has no problem passing through main breakers. The data does not know the difference between a local circuit and a main circuit.

There are four things which stop power line networking:

- filters
- distance
- transformers
- noise

in a really clean [noise wise] power situation, with a single transformer, I have seen network over power line travel as far as half a mile [in the country, with no ballasted power fixtures online] and still work at a relatively high speed. This was a situation with two houses, on the same road, sharing the same transformer, which were both set back a good distance from the road.

In a large city, or in a situation where there are ballasted light fixtures on the electric polls or out-buildings on a farm, the likelihood of data traveling that kind of distance is reduced because of the noise injected by the ballasted fixtures or heavy-duty motors.

 

[cditty]

I am only getting one receiver, but I may want to add second in a few months. There's a slight chance I'll want to add a 3rd for my garage at a later date, but I don't see myself ever going past 3. I guess if I do that I'll have to run the VOIP lines to the other, or rotate the receivers ocasionally to the spot where the VOIP device is.

You'll probably get busted at three receivers. Don't go over two and get them both when you sign up. Get 722K's and you can run 4 TV's from them.

 

[QCK]

You'll probably get busted at three receivers. Don't go over two and get them both when you sign up. Get 722K's and you can run 4 TV's from them.

+1, excellent advice

 

[Hemi 6.1]

I would worry every day if I lived in Canada and I had D* or E* service.

 

[peano]

I would worry every day if I lived in Canada and I had D* or E* service.

Worry about what??

 

[Hemi 6.1]

Worry about what??

You know !

 

[QCK]

The RCMP, OPP and local police have greater things to worry about than if one individual has a US satellite subscription. The only people I have ever heard busted are dealers selling illegal equipment. It really shouldn't be a concern unless you are comitting other offences as well.

 

[whydontchathen]

Hi there,

I know this is the Dish Network Forum, but I'm just dipping my toes in, after losing my DT feed waaaaay back when, when they pulled the plug on Canadians and their DT dishes (2004? 2005??).


Anyway, it's been years, and I dearly miss the vastly superior American satellite service. So I'm looking at my options, and I have a ton of questions.... so here are the first 2:


#1 - Can Dish Network or Direct TV run on CAT-5 wiring instead of coaxial?

(My 60 year old house was just recently wired with CAT-5 wiring so I could get TELUS TV (but I've been told TELUS TV can run on coaxial OR CAT-5)). Is this true of the satellite signal as well? Can it run on CAT-5 wiring instead of coaxial?


#2 - Have many/any SatelliteGuys members of the Canuck persuasion succeeded in having either Dish or DT service, set up very recently, by doing a self-install and registering the receivers and kick-starting their account over the web or phone? I would set up paperless billing to my Credit Card, I would get a Skype phone for the occasion....

Obviously an install visit will be out of the question, (I live in Calgary). Is there the possibility that I could make this work? permanently? I don't want to purchase all the hardware and set it all up and then find out that a technician visit is required for some reason or another, or that I have to connect the receiver to the phone line once a month or I'll be disconnected..... any of those negative scenarios...... I already have two obsolete receivers from back in the day....

thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this. Dam the CRTC!

 

[Claude Greiner]

You'll probably get busted at three receivers. Don't go over two and get them both when you sign up. Get 722K's and you can run 4 TV's from them.

I wouldn't even go 2 receivers. Get a Dual Tuner and run both televisions and call it a day

 

[TheKrell]

Can Dish Network or Direct TV run on CAT-5 wiring instead of coaxial?

The dish cable must be RG6. But you might get away with two cat5 cables for the HDMI output to the TV via wallplate adapters.