HOPPER 3 UPGRADES
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Look at how they phrased that. The "standard configuration allows for" that number. Are there diagrams for more than (5) Joeys and if so, is there something different than a "standard" setup ?
I've already seen a wiring diagram for 6 Joeys. Shows one cable from the LNB to the solo hub. One cable from the solo hub to the Hopper 3. Two cables from the solo hub each go to a three way splitter. Each three way splitter goes out to the Joeys for a total of six.
It looks like you could run three lines from each client output of the solo hub by using two Holland HFS-3D splitters and do 6 Joeys that way.
Trust me, it will be five joeys. Dreaming about more doesn't make it happen. You split the moca too much and you end up with a lot of issues.
Sorry, but Vivek said 6 so until I hear otherwise I'll trust him.
Remember, you're at the very bottom of the Dish food chain so things are subject to change for you rather quickly.
Hang around and read for a little while and you'll find out.
I can draw a diagram for whatever configuration you want. Doesn't mean they will allow you to have that configuration. Maybe later but at launch it will be five joeys. Sorry to rain on the party.
You may be right BDWAGSTER but I've seen Dish give out the wrong info numerous times. This is a perfect example now, Dish has literature for retailers that says it will do 6 Joeys yet it's telling employees it will be 5 Joeys. Even Vivek told Scott it would be 6 Joeys. Some people are saying it will be released the 28th yet Dish hasn't released any information on this at all. It looks like none of us will know 100% until it's actually out to the public and we can see for sure.
You aren't raining on anything. Some of what you are passing on here is propitiatory information that isn't even supposed to be made public. There are a LOT of people here who know a LOT more about all this than what's 'on the portal' but just can't say. If I were you I'd be real careful about what I 'share'. We've seen more than one Dish employee get in over their heads for posting too much public info, etc.
I know that this doesn't prove that it will support 6 Joeys but it does at least prove that at one point Dish said it would.
Trust me I'm not sharing anything that would endanger my employment. This is all pretty solid info, unless I noted next to it that it was an assumption or speculation. Not trying to say I know everything. But I will correct the obvious misinformation that is put out there. If you guys don't like that, then I will cancel membership and let you all mislead eachother
The pic I posted last night was also off of the Portal and says it supports 6 Joeys for up to 7 TVs. Like I said before, I'm not saying you are wrong, we have no idea what the correct info is at this time since we are getting conflicting info from the same source.
I am told by DISH and was also told at CES up to 6 Joeys will be supported.
You could have three wired Joeys and three Wireless Joeys, that way "splitting MOCA" wouldn't be an issue. There is no more "splitting" using two HFS-3 splitters than the way one of those diagrams shows two HFS-2 splitters, and then an inserter that splits off the host port and goes to the Hopper 3 and a 5th Joey.
Unfortunately, Scherrman, the diagram you posted states on the bottom "if you did not download this document from" Tom Hughes's website, it "may be out of date." How does Tom Hughes = Echostar?
And five is an unusual (I was going to say "odd" but that's obvious) number of devices to split from two feeds from the Hub. I could see two, I could see four, and I can see six, but five would mean one (no splitter) and four (4-way), or two (2-way) and three (3-way). Asymmetrical.
I'm inclined to go with Scott's "word from the horse's mouth." In any case, it doesn't matter in my home as I'm only looking at a single 4K Joey. Six Joeys is massive overkill. Maybe those $500,000 houses with HDTVs in the bathrooms...
And five is an unusual (I was going to say "odd" but that's obvious) number of devices to split from two feeds from the Hub. I could see two, I could see four, and I can see six, but five would mean one (no splitter) and four (4-way), or two (2-way) and three (3-way). Asymmetrical.
I'm inclined to go with Scott's "word from the horse's mouth." In any case, it doesn't matter in my home as I'm only looking at a single 4K Joey. Six Joeys is massive overkill. Maybe those $500,000 houses with HDTVs in the bathrooms...
