I've subscribed for 10 years to Dish. At the start, it was the only option for Russian channels, which my wife wanted. I had to point at 61.5, though, and I'm in Oregon, but that actually wasn't too difficult (I self-installed everything).
A few days ago, I got a 722, and tried to activate it with the dishHD package. Dish wouldn't let me. They insisted on getting an installer to replace my legacy dish 500 and dish 300. With a contract, of course, and I'm not willing to do that. The supervisor said I had to get 129 to get any HD. I offered to repoint my 61.5 dish to it, but then he said, no, doesn't matter, we won't activate with your legacy dishes.
So I called back a few hours later. I told them that I now had a dish 1000.2 on my roof. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. So they activated it. My 722 was rebooting every 10 or 15 minutes, though. I thought that it was just the software updating. My SW64 went through the check switch with no problems. Uh, I was connecting through my old legacy dishes, just for kicks.
On my dish 5000 receiver, I was getting a signal of about 60 or 70 off of 61.5. On the 722, for transponders 22 and 25, it was 10, at best, but it was a flaky signal. So I repointed it, and now I'm getting between 20 and 25. I also changed out the SW64 to two SW21's connected to 110 and 61.5 (nothing interesting on 119, anyways). No problems after a couple of days.
I know, I need to ditch 61.5, if I insist going down this legacy path. I could point it at 148, but then I'd lose a lot of HD. Or I could point it at 129, but then no Russian channels. I do have an unused Directv dual-LNB dish, though, so I guess I could add it and try the SW64 again.
Anyway, it's been an interesting weekend.
A few days ago, I got a 722, and tried to activate it with the dishHD package. Dish wouldn't let me. They insisted on getting an installer to replace my legacy dish 500 and dish 300. With a contract, of course, and I'm not willing to do that. The supervisor said I had to get 129 to get any HD. I offered to repoint my 61.5 dish to it, but then he said, no, doesn't matter, we won't activate with your legacy dishes.
So I called back a few hours later. I told them that I now had a dish 1000.2 on my roof. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. So they activated it. My 722 was rebooting every 10 or 15 minutes, though. I thought that it was just the software updating. My SW64 went through the check switch with no problems. Uh, I was connecting through my old legacy dishes, just for kicks.
On my dish 5000 receiver, I was getting a signal of about 60 or 70 off of 61.5. On the 722, for transponders 22 and 25, it was 10, at best, but it was a flaky signal. So I repointed it, and now I'm getting between 20 and 25. I also changed out the SW64 to two SW21's connected to 110 and 61.5 (nothing interesting on 119, anyways). No problems after a couple of days.
I know, I need to ditch 61.5, if I insist going down this legacy path. I could point it at 148, but then I'd lose a lot of HD. Or I could point it at 129, but then no Russian channels. I do have an unused Directv dual-LNB dish, though, so I guess I could add it and try the SW64 again.
Anyway, it's been an interesting weekend.
