How many recievers on one account?

[Loose Cannon]

Previously there was a thread that said 6 recievers was the most you could have on one account. However, I've come to hear that you can have 8 (with two quad LNB dishes) and perhaps even more like 16 (with cascaded switches). Does anyone know the definitve answer?

[boba]

You can only have 6 receivers under one account with the $5 duplication fees. With Dish Pro technology you can have 24 receivers on one Dish but that would be 4 accounts.

[Mark Lamutt]

The Dish accounting system will allow you to have 6 receivers per residential account, regardless of how many possible receivers your hardware configuration will allow.

[rowdymon]

Who the hell has need for 6 receivers in one house?

[zztzed]

Who the hell has need for 6 receivers in one house?
Large families? :p

[Jacob S]

They figure that there are not many that have more than 6 receivers, if that many even, and if you need that many receivers and can pay for them, then you must have a lot of money, it being $100+ per receiver in addition to installation, switching, lnbf's, and dishes, so they figure you can afford to pay for another account and limits account stacking.

[Bobby94928]

They figure that there are not many that have more than 6 receivers, if that many even, and if you need that many receivers and can pay for them, then you must have a lot of money, it being $100+ per receiver in addition to installation, switching, lnbf's, and dishes, so they figure you can afford to pay for another account and limits account stacking.

Not to mention the $5 a month for each extra, a total of $25 for 6 receivers.

[Loose Cannon]

Actually 6 boxes is not that many. I have DP in the den, 508 in my bedroom, 3-301s in the kids rooms, and a 2700 in the basement. I was thinking about adding a box in the kitchen. Instead I'm going to do some sharing with remote extenders. I guess the kids could share as well. But then they wouldn't be spoiled brats.

[abospaum]

Wouldn't it be much cheaper to buy something like the vidoesender from X-10.

http://www.x10.com/products/x10_vk30a.htm

For $88 bucks you can send the signal from one receiver to a TV in another room without a receiver. By using a remote sender for $40 you can control the receiver from any room in the house.

I wouldn't use this set-up for an HDTV but for a small kitchen TV or something this would be great.

[Jacob S]

Also the Leapfrog would be good for this, in which uses your existing phone lines to turn the channels and feeds the audio and video to any room you want to view the programming.

[Loose Cannon]

Does leapfrog transmit the audio and video via phone line or wirelessly?

[Jacob S]

Through the phone line.

[Richssat]

:wave:

I have 6 receivers on my D* account. UTV and a standard box in the living room. They are modulated (along with my dvd player) to every tv in the house. Each TV also has it's own dedicated receiver.

The scary part is that it is just my g/f and I living in a small 2 bedroom house.

I guess you could say I really like tv.

BTW, D* does not have a limit on the # of receivers per account. They do start getting real insistant about phone lines being connected to them when you go over 3 or 4.

[Jacob S]

I thought DirecTv got insistent with 2 or more and maybe even the first one in the past?