How do I receive dish net for cabin using current home account?

[Thrifty Yankee]

Not to worry. People do this all the time. Thye have a primary residence and a vacation home or weekend getaway.
Thye simply have a dish placed at the secondary home and bring their receiver with them for the duration of their stay.
The trick is to not have too many tuners on the account. Any more than 5 or 6 may trigger a call from the audit people.
I understand that the customer must read all of the receiver numbers ot the audit person at the time of the call or Dish will shut off the equipment.
I have friend who just had a beach house built. I did an install at that house.
I had him write down the receiver numbers and keep it with him at all times. He used his mobile number as the promary number on the account. SO if the audit nazis call, he has the numbers at hand to read to them.
I tiold him to deny the existence of a land line at his home. I also told him that if the call form the audit nazis came he was to pretend he was walking aorund his house and physically looking at the back of the recivers for the labels...Pretty slick.

Thanks everyone for a very informative thread. Sounds as though if I take a leased receiver already on my account on the road 40 miles away to a seasonal cottage and connect it to a Dish antenna there for a week or so, that'll be ok. How about if for convenience's sake I buy a "clean" receiver and activate it w/ Dish and leave it there, so as not to have to remember to take a receiver from my primary residence? Can I unplug it or disconnect the coax input from it when away from the 2nd residence? When I go to that 2nd residence on a lark, can I power it up and use it again? I wouldn't mind paying Dish $7.00 a month for the option of using this receiver when the notion strikes me to go to the 2nd residence. Will that work, or are their complications if I do it that way, w/ a purchased receiver that "lives" at the 2nd place but is disconnected when I'm away from there. Thanks.

 

[rsmithwi]

Was it necessary to revive a 5 year old thread?. Come on people..

 

[ChadT41]

To answer your question, you can have receivers at multiple addresses, as a snowbird, however, only one address is allowed to be activated at a time. Meaning, if there are people in your home still watching TVs, then legally, you cannot have one at the second address active at the same moment. If only one address will be active at any given moment, then just get a receiver and a dish and have it installed. When you go back and forth between addresses, just call in and have your address updated. This is not account stacking, it is onlyl account stacking when two separate addresses are active simultaneously.

 

[bigjohnok]

dont go through dish go through winegard or another retailer that specializes in satellite installs for mobile customers in situations like this.

 

[Scherrman]

As long as you have a Dish antenna at the cottage and you have a purchased receiver you should be fine. When you call to activate the receiver just make sure you tell Dish it is for camping or tailgating. Also make sure you deactivate it when you are not going to use it for a long period of time. You can just unplug the receiver when you are not there but if it's unplugged for two weeks or longer chances are that you'll have to call Dish to get programming sent to it again anyway.

 

[dishcomm]

Was it necessary to revive a 5 year old thread?. Come on people..

If it bothers you, don't read or participate.
The OP is asking a question.....Is there a problem?

 

[Scherrman]

If it bothers you, don't read or participate.
The OP is asking a question.....Is there a problem?

To be fair, the OP started this thread 5 years ago. This guy just added to it instead of starting a new one. Not a big deal but it can be annoying when I'm reading through a bunch of posts on here only to find out that they were all posted years ago.

 

[ChadT41]

Wouldn't really suggest a winegard for a cottage. In this specific case, a retailer or dish directly would both be beneficial. Winegard, would be more trouble then it's worth. If it were an RV that'd be different

 

[Tampa8]

Account stacking is when you and your neighbor share an account. He has a receiver, you have a receiver and each pay half the bill. That’s wrong and "stealing"

Taking your receiver to the cabin or tailgating with your receiver is no big deal.

You should add "My opinion is" because you are wrong. Just read the agreement (can be found online) it tells you how you can use the equipment. There is no distinction between family members using the equipment at different locations or a neighbor using your equipment at a different location.

 

[ChadT41]

The definition of account stacking is utilizing the same account at two separate residences at the same time. Doesn't matter if it is one family or more. The contracts are for one single address at a time, otherwise it requires a second account. Stacking 2+ accounts into one, to save money, is still account stacking. Taking a receiver camping, and benign still the primary, is still just one active address at a single given moment. That's why it is allowed.

 

[Scherrman]

The definition of account stacking is utilizing the same account at two separate residences at the same time. Doesn't matter if it is one family or more. The contracts are for one single address at a time, otherwise it requires a second account. Stacking 2+ accounts into one, to save money, is still account stacking. Taking a receiver camping, and benign still the primary, is still just one active address at a single given moment. That's why it is allowed.

You're right and technically it doesn't even have to be the primary. Being able to use a purchased 211 receiver on a Hopper account for camping and tailgating is a perfect example of how Dish allows this activity. Just make sure it's a purchased 211 receiver and you rarely have to worry about Dish bothering you.