Forum and satellite newb. it's been forever since I owned a satellite. Been cable since 1999. Had Dish before that for a short time.
I attempted to read, search, etc.. so many topics on 2nd Hopper, but usually covering internal hook ups.
Anyway, I had 1 Hopper and 2 Joeys installed Sunday. I decided that wasn't the ideal set up for us, and just ordered a 2nd Hopper ($200 for the Hopper, $15 install - didn't seem THAT bad... though, prefer to have paid $100 :\ - wonder what it would have been had a asked for a 2nd one during initial ordering... sigh )
I just want to make sure before they come that it will work as I am hoping it will.
Back in 1999, the amount of tuners was limited to the dish itself.. ie the dish could only accept two incoming signals back then, and as a result, that was that.. maybe it could bring in 4.. can't remember.
How I want this to work is..
#1 Hopper records PTAT and has 2 available tuners during that time for my wife to record whatever else. We want to be separate because it's seems so easy to disrupt the viewing of someone else.
#2 Hopper is for me and my son's Joey. Probably won't record a bunch, but we will. We just want to be separate.
Is this possible - with 1 dish mounted on the roof - to essentially watch either A) Record 6 non-PTAT channgels at once - 3 on #1 and 3 on #2, and/or record PTAT on both #1 and #2, leaving 2 tuners on each Hopper for watching something else?
I like the idea of 2 Hoppers - just don't want to be limited by what the dish can bring in. I assume it will be ok, given that a lot of folks on here got it working - just didn't know if people had multiple dishes or not..
Thanks.
I attempted to read, search, etc.. so many topics on 2nd Hopper, but usually covering internal hook ups.
Anyway, I had 1 Hopper and 2 Joeys installed Sunday. I decided that wasn't the ideal set up for us, and just ordered a 2nd Hopper ($200 for the Hopper, $15 install - didn't seem THAT bad... though, prefer to have paid $100 :\ - wonder what it would have been had a asked for a 2nd one during initial ordering... sigh )
I just want to make sure before they come that it will work as I am hoping it will.
Back in 1999, the amount of tuners was limited to the dish itself.. ie the dish could only accept two incoming signals back then, and as a result, that was that.. maybe it could bring in 4.. can't remember.
How I want this to work is..
#1 Hopper records PTAT and has 2 available tuners during that time for my wife to record whatever else. We want to be separate because it's seems so easy to disrupt the viewing of someone else.
#2 Hopper is for me and my son's Joey. Probably won't record a bunch, but we will. We just want to be separate.
Is this possible - with 1 dish mounted on the roof - to essentially watch either A) Record 6 non-PTAT channgels at once - 3 on #1 and 3 on #2, and/or record PTAT on both #1 and #2, leaving 2 tuners on each Hopper for watching something else?
I like the idea of 2 Hoppers - just don't want to be limited by what the dish can bring in. I assume it will be ok, given that a lot of folks on here got it working - just didn't know if people had multiple dishes or not..
Thanks.
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