Hi,
Last year when I bought my HDTV unit I was stuck with SD programming because DirecTV wouldn't give me a cheap upgrade. At the time, I had a DVR in addition to two standard receivers, and was not giving my dual-tuner TiVo goodness up. Long story short: Dish gives me a 301, 625 and 811 for nothing down if I take an 18 month lease. Now, this was fine for me, except they required THEM to install it, which, no offense to any installers on here, but I REALLY dislike installers coming into my house. They tend to not listen to you and do things how they're trained, I learned that with my first DirecT install in 1998, they drilled holes in the bizarre places, I just, didn't like the way they did it.
When I had my first system installed, the installer ran two lines of RG6 from the sat location into the house (in a really horrible looking spot, i felt like kicking that dude's butt) for a dual-tuner dish setup. Years later when i bought my own upgrades i added a 4-port sat switch to accommodate my new DVR..honest, I'm trying to make it short.
So, I get the installer from ViaSat and he inspects my setup and is pleased since all my receiver drops were all located in one central location, i did have a switch setup afterall. I believe i have a standard DishPro Quad LNBF on my dish, this installer rather than running even more wires, decided to give me a DP34 switch he had "laying around the truck". I do like the switch, it's mounted inside and has given me no problems like the SW-21's mounted outside used to.
So now Dish is using MPEG4, and I want to upgrade to the new receiver and Dish1000 system...now, I've read the Dish1000 LNB's have three coax outputs. Now, if this IS right...does this mean when the installers come, they can use the existing DP-34 switch with the Dish1000 or will I have to buy something? I do remember the work-order the installer submitted didn't mention anything about the switch and was written up as a normal quad LNBF install. So, I'm thinking these installers are going to come to set this thing up thinking there's 4 pieces of coax, but there's two. Luckily, I do have an existing cable drop that i can tap into for the third cable for the DP34.
I know this is kind of a confusing post...I've gotten quite confused when it comes to trying to figure out dish installs, it's changed in the last few years.
What I'm wondering, is with my current setup, can any installers out there give me tips of what i should buy/do to prepare the install so when they do come, all they do is hook the new dish up and new box? I haven't ordered the upgrade yet because this was my main obstacle.
In case anyone forgot how things are configured:
DP500 Quad LNBF -> two coax lines -> DP34 -> 811,301,625
Thanks in advance and hope to be watching Voom Programming and HD locals by summer.
-Jay
Last year when I bought my HDTV unit I was stuck with SD programming because DirecTV wouldn't give me a cheap upgrade. At the time, I had a DVR in addition to two standard receivers, and was not giving my dual-tuner TiVo goodness up. Long story short: Dish gives me a 301, 625 and 811 for nothing down if I take an 18 month lease. Now, this was fine for me, except they required THEM to install it, which, no offense to any installers on here, but I REALLY dislike installers coming into my house. They tend to not listen to you and do things how they're trained, I learned that with my first DirecT install in 1998, they drilled holes in the bizarre places, I just, didn't like the way they did it.
When I had my first system installed, the installer ran two lines of RG6 from the sat location into the house (in a really horrible looking spot, i felt like kicking that dude's butt) for a dual-tuner dish setup. Years later when i bought my own upgrades i added a 4-port sat switch to accommodate my new DVR..honest, I'm trying to make it short.
So, I get the installer from ViaSat and he inspects my setup and is pleased since all my receiver drops were all located in one central location, i did have a switch setup afterall. I believe i have a standard DishPro Quad LNBF on my dish, this installer rather than running even more wires, decided to give me a DP34 switch he had "laying around the truck". I do like the switch, it's mounted inside and has given me no problems like the SW-21's mounted outside used to.
So now Dish is using MPEG4, and I want to upgrade to the new receiver and Dish1000 system...now, I've read the Dish1000 LNB's have three coax outputs. Now, if this IS right...does this mean when the installers come, they can use the existing DP-34 switch with the Dish1000 or will I have to buy something? I do remember the work-order the installer submitted didn't mention anything about the switch and was written up as a normal quad LNBF install. So, I'm thinking these installers are going to come to set this thing up thinking there's 4 pieces of coax, but there's two. Luckily, I do have an existing cable drop that i can tap into for the third cable for the DP34.
I know this is kind of a confusing post...I've gotten quite confused when it comes to trying to figure out dish installs, it's changed in the last few years.
What I'm wondering, is with my current setup, can any installers out there give me tips of what i should buy/do to prepare the install so when they do come, all they do is hook the new dish up and new box? I haven't ordered the upgrade yet because this was my main obstacle.
In case anyone forgot how things are configured:
DP500 Quad LNBF -> two coax lines -> DP34 -> 811,301,625
Thanks in advance and hope to be watching Voom Programming and HD locals by summer.
-Jay