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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    My equipment: HR44-700 C41-500 x2 HR21-100 HR22-100 x2 HR24-100 x3 Currently one 4K capable TV. Currently, my HR44 genie is connected to my 4K TV. DirecTV told me they could upgrade me to 4K at no cost. My understanding is that I would need to get a HR54 and a 4K mini. HR54 would need to go...
  2. DIRECTV Programming
    Yes, this is eactly what happened. I went to record it planning to watch it a couple of days later with the family. Because DTv told me I already had it, I said ok, I must have recorded it earlier (figured it was some new feature to reduce duplicate recordings). Then when the family sat down to...
  3. DIRECTV Programming
    VERY disappointed in Dtv. A week ago or so I selected a movie to record on one of the channels that I receive. Dtv came up and said that the movie I wanted to record was already in my playlist and did not record the movie. Well, a week later and I sit down to watch the movie - it is in my...
  4. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    So you split the four cables coming from the dish before the SWM 16s? What are the pros/cons of that setup?
  5. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Well, I finally pulled the trigger. HR-44 was installed today! And yes, I now have 17 working tuners! The Multiband technician was probably one of the best I have ever had in my house. When he got here with the Genie, I told him that it would put me up to 17 tuners. After looking troubled for...
  6. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Hey, I saw in the survey linked in the first post that there was one installed in Houston!!! This is good news.... Unless someone hit the button by accident. :(
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    If it is hard wired via an Ethernet connection, it won't matter what your SSID is. SSID comes into play when you connect wirelessly.
  8. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I would assume it would be the same installer as Houston. Anyone know if the HR44s are in Houston yet, or who the installer here is? Thanks!
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    OK. That is not too far from Katy! Anyone know who the installer would be in Katy, TX? Perhaps I can give them a call to see if they have the 44s yet.
  10. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Also interested to know if anyone has received HR44's in the Houston/Katy area yet. Waiting for the 44's to pull the free updrade (hopefully) trigger.
  11. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Thanks! I will give it a try. But I may wait until the HR44s are available in the Houton area.
  12. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Thanks for all of the good info. Good to know it is possible. Now my difficulty may be physically getting it done. My current setup has the 4 cables from the dish coming down to the SWM16 mounted to an exterior wall. From the SWM16, the 2 coaxial cables (Prewired in house) go from the...
  13. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I currently have 6 HD DVRs (12 tuners) and 1 HD receiver. I am interested in getting the Genie to replace my 1 HD receiver. Will this be too many tuners as the 5 from the Genie will put me up to 17? Can a setup have more than 16 tuners? I know I could also replace an HD DVR with an RVU unit...
  14. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Well, I still have no resolution to this problem. I have the cck disconnected except when I want to download a movie. To download a movie, I connect the cck to the router via Ethernet, download and watch the movie, and then disconnect the Ethernet. Usually, I have to reboot several boxes to get...
  15. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I just tri ed that again. Connecting cck to switch produces the same problems. The cck only has one ethernet port, so I can't put it in series with any equipment. I wonder if I am the only one in the area with this ISP and DirecTV who is trying this.... I would love to call and try to get help...
  16. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Ok. So I rearranged the setup to where it was modem-router-switch-router, and made sure the dhcp was disabled on the second router. Actually, second router and switch were in parallel, with both connected to first router. Internet works fine on computers, tablet, etc. With connection kit...
  17. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I don't believe the modem is a router, As it only has one Ethernet port. The reason I have the switch coming just after the router is because it is all in my wiring cabinet. There are several cat-5e cables from this cabinet to locations throughout the home, so I use the switch to distribute to...
  18. DIRECTV Connected Home
    That's what I was thinking as well. I may wait until the weekend. I have been working from home and my son is taking an online class with an exam on Friday, so somehow messing up the home network right now would be very bad.
  19. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Thank you VOS. I will try to isolate things on my home network. I have an 8 port switch in the wiring closet to connect the prewired locations in my home. At one location downstairs, I have a wireless router which creates a wifi network for downstairs. We were not getting a very good...
  20. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Let me start out by saying that I don't know too much about all of this. But I think I have a pretty unique problem with whole home viewing and internet. I have 6 HD-DVRs, and 1 HD receiver. They were all hapily talking to each other and I was able to use whole home viewing without issues...
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