Trying to move my Hopper

[iasnellman]

I recently had flooding in my basement so I am trying to move one of my hoppers until I get everything back to normal. I am trying to move my hopper to my bedroom where I normally have a joey. the hopper is stuck on searching for sattellite signal. Do I need different cabling for a hopper than for a joey? I have tried contacting dish by phone, but they have not been helpful at all. The first guy last night told me that it might take a while and the guy I talked to tonight said it must be a problem with my dish or cabling (can't be either because my hopper in my living room works fine and my joey in my bedroom worked fine before I hooked up the hopper).

Any ideas or thoughts? I probably should have just come here first instead of wasting my time with dish but hind sight is 20/20 I guess.

 

[sparc]

it will require some rewiring at a node or tap (depending on how your system was originally wired)....

see wiring diagrams: http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=279755

simply swapping the joey and hopper receiver locations won't work without making those wiring changes.

 

[iasnellman]

Thank you, I was wondering that and thought that but the people on the phone from dish kept saying that it shouldn't matter. They kept telling me that I had to check my dish and my cabling which I knew wasn't the problem because my other hopper works fine eliminating the dish and my joey worked fine eliminating the cable.

 

[3HaloODST]

Do you know if the Joey you are trying to swap out is on a tap (looks like a splitter) or not?