Max. Number of Receivers

The most you can have off a quad LNB 500 with standard equipment (SW44/64) is 4. There's nothing stopping you from buying an additional dish or using fancy splitters/load isolators to parallel SW44/64's (don't know much about this route, though).

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What I was trying to say is that the four receiver limit can be overcome with hardware solutions, but the DISH Network limit of 6 in their system can't be.
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Dish computers can only handle 6 receivers on an account. If you want more then 6, you will have to subscribe to a new account. As far as physical receivers on a dish, I think I heard it was unlimited if you connect it correctly. I could be wrong.

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I believe that with 2 series of 3 DP34s cascaded off of both pairs of outputs from a DP QUAD you can have a total of 24 rcvrs connected to one D500.

That's great for a MDU like a condo or apmt bldg. But a subscriber is limited to 6 on one acct.

Yep... 24 TV's can be run off 1 Dish 500 with a DishPro LNB and 34 switches... but Dish will only let you have 6 receivers just because their billing system wasn't made to handle more than 6 receivers on 1 account? That's their problem not yours! I hope they only charge the $5 receiver fee per month on that 2nd account!

You can have six receivers on one account. If you need more than that then you have to set up a second account and you will be billed the monthly charges again. For example, if you currently spend $41.00 per month it would double to $82.00 per month.

Why the hell would anyone needs more than 6 (or even 6) receivers in their home? And if you were in a condo or something, then you'd have some kind of business account.

Originally posted by rowdymon
Why the hell would anyone needs more than 6 (or even 6) receivers in their home? And if you were in a condo or something, then you'd have some kind of business account.

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Here's an example of why:
one in each bedroom (3)
one in living room
one in RV
one for PC
four in home theater (2 HD & 2 PVR)
TOTAL of 10