Save it for yourself! I actually had the little receiver thing go bad on one of my dishes, and replaced it with my spare, saving me the BS $50 service call.
Dish Network - Pros/Cons
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Save it for yourself! I actually had the little receiver thing go bad on one of my dishes, and replaced it with my spare, saving me the BS $50 service call.
harvest1121
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I have no contract with Direct Tv so if something goes wrong I say i am going to quit and they do whatever I need for free. They put it on my house the day I moved in it did not have hd locals so they came the next and put the right one on. So it will make me do something and get it off if someone needs it.
C B Yes it is my understanding that a DirecTV reciever can be moved from a home billing address to another location. However you will not recieve local channels at your second location as the lcs are sent as a cone signal. Out of your home cone signal no lcs. To recieve lcs at second location you'll need that second account. DTV does not know where the reciever is especially if the phone line is not hooked up. DTV will not insist that the phone line be hooked up but much prefer it as they can then ping the system and thus "discover" whats what. This is how you're charged for movies. Reciever gets pinged and sends list of movies watched. Yes it's a reciever but also a modem w/memory.
FYI DirecTV now only allows you to suspend your service 4 times in a year and only for six months. This mistake at my Ohio location is costing me two months of paid service for an empty house. PO'ed at myself.
FYI DirecTV now only allows you to suspend your service 4 times in a year and only for six months. This mistake at my Ohio location is costing me two months of paid service for an empty house. PO'ed at myself.
The locals come from where you pay the bill.
harski
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Good info guys, thanks. I too have a summer place and have a Direct TV box that I leave there all year round. Because it's within 45 minutes of the house I continue to get local channels which is nice. This was one of my needs going with DishNetwork and according to the representative they can hook up a second dish for me at no extra charge.
The other thing I like of Dish Network is being able to hook up 2 TV's with one box. Both here at the house and at the lake it would be easier to use without having to have a box for each TV (cables, space, etc).
Lastly, Direct TV is charging me per box right now (x4) in which supposedly Dish will not even after the promotional period. Is anyone else getting charged per box at the momement from them? I estimated a total savings of about $30 +/- per month by moving over to Dish (after the promotional period). This would include receiver charges, local chanels, and package price. We'll see?
Harski
The other thing I like of Dish Network is being able to hook up 2 TV's with one box. Both here at the house and at the lake it would be easier to use without having to have a box for each TV (cables, space, etc).
Lastly, Direct TV is charging me per box right now (x4) in which supposedly Dish will not even after the promotional period. Is anyone else getting charged per box at the momement from them? I estimated a total savings of about $30 +/- per month by moving over to Dish (after the promotional period). This would include receiver charges, local chanels, and package price. We'll see?
Harski
No, I pay the bill in town and my cabin is the service address. So I get locals from the cabin. But they are close enough together I still get the locals when I bring the reciver home.
I have 4 cables coming from the satellite with Directv but have 5 tv's on those using a multi splitter. With that I can run 8 different tv's. The two with DVR take 2 cables each however.
But don't you have to watch the same channel on all the TV'S though? With Dish you can watch a different channel on each TV.