Nightmare
11-07-02, 01:26 PM
Day 1: I missed the UPS guy and didn't get the 721.
Day 2: I caught the UPS guy around the corner and got my DISH 721 an hour early. I walk 2 blocks back to my house to install they receiver. I get the 75 foot cable I ordered and start running it along the existing DISH cable. When I get the hole in the block wall I find out the DISH tech did not make it big enough to fit the second cable. I grab my drill and a masonry bit and go to town, its a rental house and the owner lives upstairs but he's gone today. Well, it look like my bit isn't long enough :/ I'll have to run to the store tomorrow my wife took the car.
Day 3: I run to Home Depot to get a bigger bit and some RG-6 connectors. I had to cut one off to "open" the hole. I get home and the owner is upstairs ( I doubt he would care but it will be easier not to ask). I turn on the stereo and the vacuum and finish the hole. With a little work I get the 2 cable through the hole. I cut and strip the cable and attach the new connector. I make all the connections to the PVR and call DISH. The first lady will need to transfer me to the tech department to add the receiver, but offers to sell me HBO for only $13.99 a month. I don't tell her that they have been giving me HBO for free for the last 4 months since I moved. I hope this will continue with the new receiver but I doubt it will. The Tech department takes my receiver and card numbers. They also offer the HBO. The receiver says "aquiring...try back later". After 15 minutes of watching the "How to use your remote" channel I call DISH again. I am sent to the Advanced Tech departmant. The nice lady on the phone double checks a bunch of stuff. The PVR is downloading its software update, 20 minutes and its on part 2 of 20! We need to run the check switch but not during the download. We get lucky and the download is interrupted for some reason!.. We run the check switch and it has the correct info now. The PVR also restarts the download ( its version L051 right now). That was when I came in here to vent. I sure hope this thing is working when I go back in there.
Day 2: I caught the UPS guy around the corner and got my DISH 721 an hour early. I walk 2 blocks back to my house to install they receiver. I get the 75 foot cable I ordered and start running it along the existing DISH cable. When I get the hole in the block wall I find out the DISH tech did not make it big enough to fit the second cable. I grab my drill and a masonry bit and go to town, its a rental house and the owner lives upstairs but he's gone today. Well, it look like my bit isn't long enough :/ I'll have to run to the store tomorrow my wife took the car.
Day 3: I run to Home Depot to get a bigger bit and some RG-6 connectors. I had to cut one off to "open" the hole. I get home and the owner is upstairs ( I doubt he would care but it will be easier not to ask). I turn on the stereo and the vacuum and finish the hole. With a little work I get the 2 cable through the hole. I cut and strip the cable and attach the new connector. I make all the connections to the PVR and call DISH. The first lady will need to transfer me to the tech department to add the receiver, but offers to sell me HBO for only $13.99 a month. I don't tell her that they have been giving me HBO for free for the last 4 months since I moved. I hope this will continue with the new receiver but I doubt it will. The Tech department takes my receiver and card numbers. They also offer the HBO. The receiver says "aquiring...try back later". After 15 minutes of watching the "How to use your remote" channel I call DISH again. I am sent to the Advanced Tech departmant. The nice lady on the phone double checks a bunch of stuff. The PVR is downloading its software update, 20 minutes and its on part 2 of 20! We need to run the check switch but not during the download. We get lucky and the download is interrupted for some reason!.. We run the check switch and it has the correct info now. The PVR also restarts the download ( its version L051 right now). That was when I came in here to vent. I sure hope this thing is working when I go back in there.