I have an old style dish that points to a single sat at a time. It is intended for DirecTV, but the place I bought it from said it works with Dish as well. I pointed it to 119 using a DirecTV reciever, then connected the dish to a 211k. It does not want to go past the software download screen. Does the software come from a different satellite? Do I need to have software downloaded before the old style dish will work? Does the 211k require a special switch and would not work with an old style dish?
211k with single slot dish
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I'm not sure that will work. You may at least need a new LNB. The 211k needs to point at three satellites in order to receive all the channels.
3 Halo...See above... There are no options to get out of the software download, therefore I am unable to point the dish, therefore I am unable to download the software...repeat...not very good engineering if you ask me.
Nope..........
Reset that receiver, while it's acquiring signal go to menu 6 1 1 & select 119 & see if you have "locked" signal. I believe you will have your answer.
That is the problem...it goes straight to the software download screen and will not allow me to enter the menus.
Unplug it from the wall & as soon as you plug it back up start pressing the menu button.
There is no button on the panel. I tried several times with the remote and each time I landed on the software download page.
I tried to find the other threads on the same topic to no avail.One member was stuck with the same message,luckily for him he was already locked on 61.5 so it finally d/loaded the s/w.Then he could access the menu and signal screen to fine tune his dish.afaik unless you already have signal there's no way to get around that s/w,d/load.Do you have any other receivers you could lock the signal with?Or a sat meter?
My current setup is with DirecTV. This is my only Dish receiver. Was looking to just have one reciever for PAC12 during football and basketball season. I can lock in on 119 with the DirecTV box. Is it the same bird for both services? If not, I may go out and get a meter.
According to dishpointer.com they would in fact be pretty close.
http://www.dishpointer.com/
You could certainly give it a go.
That's exactly what he's saying.I read of at least 2 other instances of this happening with 211's over the last couple of months.They stick at d/loading s/w and you have no access to menu or anything else.
