Hopper Plus Required for Signal Saver? - NO

[bertherr]

A neighbor recently told me about how his Dish Network system switches to streaming when his dish signal is blocked. This was news to me. A couple of days ago a storm came through and I lost signal. I waited for a while and as usual nothing happened. I turned the Hopper off and called Dish Network and asked why my system was not switching to streaming like my neighbor's. I was told that I needed to to add the Hopper Plus to have that happen. I said no thanks. A few months ago I had my Hopper replaced due to a number of failures. Dish pushed the Hopper Plus then, also. I had done some research then and decided I did not want it. Anyway, I turn the Hopper back on and to my surprise the pop up window tells me something like the system will start streaming and it did. I am so disappointed that Dish Network deceived me. How and when does the system decide to start streaming? Thanks

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

With the Hopper Plus you can also stream other things when there is no Satellite signal.

But yes signal saver works on many channels (but not all) when there is a weather outage to your system. (Remember it needs to be hooked up to the Internet to work.)

 

[zcrayfish]

A neighbor recently told me about how his Dish Network system switches to streaming when his dish signal is blocked. This was news to me. A couple of days ago a storm came through and I lost signal. I waited for a while and as usual nothing happened. I turned the Hopper off and called Dish Network and asked why my system was not switching to streaming like my neighbor's. I was told that I needed to to add the Hopper Plus to have that happen. I said no thanks. A few months ago I had my Hopper replaced due to a number of failures. Dish pushed the Hopper Plus then, also. I had done some research then and decided I did not want it. Anyway, I turn the Hopper back on and to my surprise the pop up window tells me something like the system will start streaming and it did. I am so disappointed that Dish Network deceived me. How and when does the system decide to start streaming? Thanks

Signal protector is not available on all channels; if you have the option turned on, and the system detects that the satellite signal has been lost on a channel that has a streaming option, and your internet connection is stable, it will switch to streaming. Hopper Plus is definitely not needed; the signal protector on the HWS (for instance) works fine without it.