Questions about The Hopper?

[ashutto20]

I haven't upgraded since I first got dish six years ago...

will the $99 + $15 go on my bill or do I have to pay the installer???

Thanks in advance

 

[Scherrman]

I haven't upgraded since I first got dish six years ago...

will the $99 + $15 go on my bill or do I have to pay the installer???

Thanks in advance

When going through Dish it should show up on your bill. When going through a retailer you would pay them.

 

[Scherrman]

I'm actually considering waving the fee or lowering it just to make it a more attractive deal for existing customers. I'll have to wait and see how much we make first.

 

[ashutto20]

I would be going thru a local retailer

 

[bondfool]

I'm actually considering waving the fee or lowering it just to make it a more attractive deal for existing customers. I'll have to wait and see how much we make first.

God, I wish I lived in Iowa.

 

[Scherrman]

LOL Any retailer can do it. It's up to us what we want to charge. We use to only charge our regular service rate of $60. We decided it was just easier to do the same as Dish that way customers couldn't complain since we didn't set the price.

 

[stardust3]

I'm actually considering waving the fee or lowering it just to make it a more attractive deal for existing customers. I'll have to wait and see how much we make first.

If you do this I sure hope it's not at the expense of your installers or money out of their pockets.

 

[dare2be]

Sherrman, you sound like a great retailer to work with. If you serviced our area, I'd insist on paying you the full Dish going rate.

DHPP - $15

 

[Scherrman]

Sherrman, you sound like a great retailer to work with. If you serviced our area, I'd insist on paying you the full Dish going rate.

DHPP - $15

LOL You funny guy.

 

[Scherrman]

If you do this I sure hope it's not at the expense of your installers or money out of their pockets.

If I did that I wouldn't have an installer. We pay our installer more than what most people to. We believe if we pay them well they will do quality work.

 

[ashutto20]

any way you can come to NC and install mine haha

 

[navychop]

I'm sure for a suitable amount of coin of the realm ..........

 

[ToddG]

How do you think the ota will work when supported? I was wondering if it will operate similar to the 922 ota. Will I be able to see the channels in the guide and set up timers. Also, if I have 2 hoppers, do you think I could have an ota tuner on each one? I know it's all speculation at this point.

 

[hdaddikt]

Be nice if Dish gave us loyal subs some pre-order rights since the newbies will be getting the most savings. Everybody wins.

 

[navychop]

Not a bad idea. Little cost, great goodwill.

 

[John Kotches]

Upfront: I don't want to get into a debate about fees, or anything like that. Both hoppers will be going in my equipment closet. This will make any additional wiring easy, as there is conduit run to the equipment closet to the home runs of wiring. Yes, this will have an extra joey, my money, my choice

Here's the configuration I'm looking at -- based on the expectation that Hoppers aren't going to be able to be joined at launch.

Hopper 1:
Joey 1a (MBR)
Joey 1b (Living room)

Hopper 2:
Joey 2a (bedroom)
Joey 2b (guest room)

Is this hooked up with 2 Solo or 1 Duo? If 2 Solo nodes, could they be fed from the output of the DPP44?

Once the Hoppers are able to connect together, would it be as simple as bridging them together with the unused Home Network output on the back of the hoppers?

Maybe it's too soon to answer this, but it's hard to tell based on the existing information too.



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[TheKrell]

1. I believe you want one dual node to feed two Hoppers.
2. Yes, this can be fed from 3 of the outputs of a DPP44.
3. There is no "unused" Home Network input/output jack on the back of a Hopper!
4. My wag is that, with the updated firmware, they will all of a sudden see each other with no physical reconfiguration. If two Hoppers need to have isolators before this update, they don't show it on all dual-Hopper installation diagrams.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You would need a dual node for two Hoppers.

 

[John Kotches]

I'm having trouble picturing how to link joey's with specific hoppers though in the duo-node setup.

Will that be a software feature when multiple joeys and hoppers are visible?

This might not be answerable until launch.



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[rglore]

Upfront: I don't want to get into a debate about fees, or anything like that. Both hoppers will be going in my equipment closet. This will make any additional wiring easy, as there is conduit run to the equipment closet to the home runs of wiring. Yes, this will have an extra joey, my money, my choice

Here's the configuration I'm looking at -- based on the expectation that Hoppers aren't going to be able to be joined at launch.

Hopper 1:
Joey 1a (MBR)
Joey 1b (Living room)

Hopper 2:
Joey 2a (bedroom)
Joey 2b (guest room)

Your wasting two HDMI outputs. Put the Hoppers in place of the Joeys and you gain PIP and bluetooth functionality at those locations. You still need only one wire to each location. The central piece in a Hopper system is the node and splitters, not the Hopper. Hoppers talk to each other over the coax through the node, no additional connections.