Sharing Our Dish Question

[56Nomad]

We do quite a bit of camping with our RV and once in a while one of our Dish Network neighbors can't get reception as they've parked their rig under a large tree or just can't dial their dish in. I'm curious…….. if they have a Dish Network receiver, could I hook their receiver into my dish with either of these connections?

 

[n0qcu]

Yes

 

[MikeD-C05]

DITTO.

 

[rjruby]

They have to be Dish Pro receivers don't they?

 

[digiblur]

And they would need to do a check switch once they are hooked up.

 

[boba]

You have Dish Pro Plus so as long as there is 1 DP receiver connected it will work with Legacy receivers, A check switch will need to be run on any receiver connected so it knows how to operate.

 

[Tomboy257]

This wouldn't be considered stacking?

 

[aquaman67]

This wouldn't be considered stacking?

Are you being serious?

You are billed by what your receiver is authorized, not by what dish it goes through.......

Stacking is two people getting service and only one paying. I'm sure both parties here have accounts.

 

[56Nomad]

I'm sure both parties here have [Dish Network] accounts.

Yes, I hoped I made that clear in my question.

 

[Tomboy257]

Sorry for my gaffe.

 

[Mr Tony]

what they're doing isnt stacking. Heck my neighbor at the townhouse complex this past winter had a line for his Directv system be bad and with 3 feet of snow on the ground I wasnt running a new cable. I just tapped into my dish and he was fine

He pays his bill....I pay mine

 

[navychop]

Why do I expect Bob to be here any moment.....?

 

[DishSubLA]

This wouldn't be considered stacking?

NO. As long as each "household" or in this case, RV owner/family has theri own account, Dish doesn't care what the set-up is. Account Stacking is when you split a single ACCOUNT across more than one "household" or physical address.

So, the OP can allow his neighbors to connect to and share is his DishPro Quad LNBF and reflector, just as long as those neighbors have their own account.

 

[hudgreen]

you may want to watch out for grounding issues
If one rv has a better groung then the other then current could backflow through the cable /dish to the other (this may only happen when there is a temperary fault)
This issue happened to me when I installed a system at a house and put one recievers in the guy's detached workshop
turned out the shop had its own power meter
I seperated the systems by installing a second dish for the shop

 

[the mack]

you may want to watch out for grounding issues

yea, I was thinking the same thing, could be a problem.