Moving Experiance with Dish

[mraudit]

I am moving from the DFW area to a small town in Iowa. Don't you just love job transferes!! Anyway, I was wanting to know how others have experianced the Dish Moving thingy. Is it as easy as they say?? Any issues or problems I need to be aware of??

Also, I have a VIP 622, and another 2 TV DVR SD receiver. I want to hook up 5 TV's at my new place. Do I have to get another dish? I know I will need another receiver, and I think I read somewhere about a splitter? Is this something that the installer at my new place can handle???

Thanks!!!

 

[mikenewy]

Its easy, just bring your receivers and call them, they should give you the dish that is appropriate for what you are wanting in programing.

 

[rcdallas]

Dish mover installs are great. I like them, virtually no customer ed, no recievers to unpack, etc. Every tech I work with like them as well, in other words they are nice and easy, provided you have all the recievers, the remotes, and the tv's on site.

 

[webbydude]

I am moving from the DFW area to a small town in Iowa. Don't you just love job transferes!! Anyway, I was wanting to know how others have experianced the Dish Moving thingy. Is it as easy as they say?? Any issues or problems I need to be aware of??

Also, I have a VIP 622, and another 2 TV DVR SD receiver. I want to hook up 5 TV's at my new place. Do I have to get another dish? I know I will need another receiver, and I think I read somewhere about a splitter? Is this something that the installer at my new place can handle???

Thanks!!!

Umm...unless I'm missing some key information here, you *should* only have 4 TV's, right? Unless you're talking about mirror-imaging one of your TV#2's. If that's the case, custom charges can AND will apply.

 

[TheKrell]

I moved 2.5 yrs ago from one location in Fairfax County, VA to another. At my old place, I had a self-installed 3-sat system consisting of 2 dishes with SW21's, a legacy twin, and a legacy dual pointed at 61.5.

The numbskull who arrived at my new place to do the Dish Mover install failed to show up on the appointed day despite repeated assurances from his dispatcher that he would. The next day (a Saturday) he surprised me by showing up when I wasn't at home, disconnected my cable Internet service (taking down all landline VoIP phones and several servers I run in my basement), took down a DirectTV dish/LNB, and then installed a new Dish dish/LNB twin on the old, rusty DirectTV mast and mounting bracket. He supposedly aligned the dish, but I could only get 110 since a maple tree was eclipsing 119.

After I returned home and discovered all these mishaps, this joker had the gall to tell me I was only getting one dish, and a 2nd dish (like I had at my old place) would be $100 dollars! I couldn't clear this up with a call to Dish since I had no phone (and zero bars on my cell), so I told him to get off my property. It took a month, 3 more trips by others from his company, numerous phone calls to Dish, and several days of my own hard labor and equipment to complete the job to my satisfaction.

My advice: make sure everyone agrees on the number and type of antenna and LNBs you are getting! Your current programming with Dish should not matter. Past and future programming (such as internationals in my case) should count (but apparently does not with Dish).

 

[ajax33]

I work for the RSP covering central Iowa, and we also cover eastern iowa(execpt the Davenport area) and the Council Bluffs Area. I can tell you that if your wanting a mirrored outlet, its $59. As far as adding a 5th independent TV, you would have to buy the 5th receicer, as well as a switch, preferable the DPP44 switch, otherwise your going to have to run 2 lines to your dual tuner receivers. If you want you can always buy a 301/311 off the internet or at Radio Shack. Then just request dish to note for the tech to bring the DPP44 switch with him. If you buy the switch from us, it is $159 plus tax

 

[rcdallas]

I've seen instances where customer buys 5th tuner from rat shack, does self install using a splitter, calls tech support because it doesn't work, they send truck roll to fix problem, ends up getting switch pretty much for free minus service call charge.

 

[ajax33]

around here either dish has to authorize the switch be put on, or the customer has to pay for it, cause we won't eat the cost of the switch

 

[rcdallas]

Even when right on the bottom of the work order specificically says remedy any service interruption at no cost to the customer?

If I had my way, I'd backcharge the customer for customer caused issues.

 

[ajax33]

even if, because if we use it, E* won't pay for it unless it is either paid for by the customer, or else it is added to the WO by winback

and wouldn't that be nice

 

[rcdallas]

It makes sense, no one should be out there to loose money. Especially in this example.

Flip a quarter for the something for nothing crowd, eh?

 

[ajax33]

i remember the days of Superdish, it wasn't this way, we used 44sw whenever we used dual tuners...those were great days

 

[rcdallas]

SW44 on a superdish, eh?

 

[ajax33]

a DPP44, just so you only had to run 1 line to the dual receivers

 

[rcdallas]

I know, I was just checking

 

[mikenewy]

My installer was good guy, he suggested the DPP44 because he did not want to drill lots of holes in my new brick house. He made the call himself without prompting so I got everything at no charge. I would call the installer when you get to the new area and negotiate before he makes the service call.