Dish Hopper for Lake Home

[kris_21_24]

Hello. Very glad I came across such a sight, looks extremely informative. We currently have three Dish DVRs and looking to get the Hopper (scheduled setup for Tuesday). It has been confusing, because we have a lake home and currently bring a receiver out there (seasonally). Some dish Reps say we can't do that, others say that is fine. I talked to a Rep and got transferred to a more localized department and they said that that is fine as long as it is a seasonal dish. So we scheduled a setup and plan to take one of the Hoppers to our cabin in the summer.

We will be getting 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys. Plan on connecting the 2 Joeys to one Hopper and then putting the remaining Hopper in my sons room and taking it to the lake in the summer (so right now). The question that we have is would we need a new receiver (antenna) at our cabin? We currently have a Dish 500 (with a DP plus sticker on the antenna). This may be the problem thus allowing us not to go through with the upgrade, because if we can't get a new antenna there. The Rep said that the tech would only go to the address on our account and our cabin is 25 miles away (so don't plan on him going out there, so we would be setting it up...if it works with our antenna).

Background info. The receivers at our home are HD and the one at our cabin is a SD. Also we are located in Minnesota, so only need the Dish at the cabin for 4 months. At our home we have a Dish 1000 antenna. The lake is a Dish 625 (DVR). The home are Dish Vip722K DVR.

Thank you for taking your time and greatly appreciated.

 

[boba]

Hello. Very glad I came across such a sight, looks extremely informative. We currently have three Dish DVRs and looking to get the Hopper (scheduled setup for Tuesday). It has been confusing, because we have a lake home and currently bring a receiver out there (seasonally). Some dish Reps say we can't do that, others say that is fine. I talked to a Rep and got transferred to a more localized department and they said that that is fine as long as it is a seasonal dish. So we scheduled a setup and plan to take one of the Hoppers to our cabin in the summer.

We will be getting 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys. Plan on connecting the 2 Joeys to one Hopper and then putting the remaining Hopper in my sons room and taking it to the lake in the summer (so right now). The question that we have is would we need a new receiver (antenna) at our cabin? We currently have a Dish 500 (with a DP plus sticker on the antenna). This may be the problem thus allowing us not to go through with the upgrade, because if we can't get a new antenna there. The Rep said that the tech would only go to the address on our account and our cabin is 25 miles away (so don't plan on him going out there, so we would be setting it up...if it works with our antenna).

Background info. The receivers at our home are HD and the one at our cabin is a SD. Also we are located in Minnesota, so only need the Dish at the cabin for 4 months. At our home we have a Dish 1000 antenna. The lake is a Dish 625 (DVR). The home are Dish Vip722K DVR.

Thank you for taking your time and greatly appreciated.

What you intend to do is against DISH's terms of service in the strict interpretation of the rules. If you take the receiver back and forth so the account isn't actively being used at more than one location, that is within the terms of your dish agreement.

At the lake house you would need to upgrade the DISH 500 by at the least adding a NODE for the Hopper and to get the HD programming you should have a 1000.2 dish looking at 3 satellites.

 

[dishrich]

OP, while I assume you know that you can NO longer have that 625 DVR on your account at all - you CAN add 1 purchased 211k receiver, but that is the ONLY exception; all other receivers must be Ho's/Jo's.
Also, if you did NOT care about having HD at the lake house, the 211k would work just fine with the existing dish you already have up there.