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.

 

[ClarkGable]

Last night while watch Reelz, the Hopper Duo said the signal was lost and was switching to streaming. The streaming connection screen was taking a long time, so I brought up the guide. A bunch of channels were grayed out. I clicked one a channel that was not grayed and it worked okay off of satellite. I went back to Reelz, and it was fine off the satellite. There was not a cloud in the sky here or any storms within the dish's line of sight to the satellite. Maybe a brief storm near the uplink site? Anyway, that is the first time that ever happened.

 

[tanman]

They unfortunately do not provide streams for our locals which happen to be the ones that cut out the most.Not all of us have OTA signal- I put up a large Channel Master UHF antenna with a booster in a vain attempt .
I shoulda listened when the antenna website said I needed a 135 foot high tower!

 

[mheisen]

I just upgraded to the Hopper Plus. You'd think that either the CSR or the installer would have mentioned the signal saver. Not a word, it took this forum to clue me in. A significant marketing opportunity is lost by a company struggling to retain subscribers.

 

[dishdude]

The Wally even supports signal saver.