I had a VS9000 with add-on board for a while. Got it for a deal like you did.
It didn't work well when I could find some S2 feeds and the 9000 in general has issues with anything with SR over 22000 (Funny how that works). Really sucked for the HD sports feeds that I couldn't get.
If you can get a deal on it and it works, get it, sell it on ebay, turna profit, buy a pansat 9200 or for S2 a coolsat 8000. That's what I did!