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Yea any time you go through that many boxes in a year then theres something in the home thats causing the problem and its usually in the electrical wiring. Having spent 6 years installing satellite in a handful of states you tend to run across this same scenario every so often and if you look on the forums here you'll see the same thing.
Problems like this tend to fall into one of the following.
(1) Old wiring such as the cloth wrapped stuff from your grandpa's youth, you'll still find this stuff in many old rural homes that have stayed in the same family for generations.
(2) Overloaded circuit wich can be found in number one and in homes where a do-it-yourselfer has put more appliances onto a circuit than it was ment to handle.
(3) Faulty appliance on a circuit thas backfeeding noise into the wiring can disrupt sensitive equipment and damage said equipment causing pixeling and hard drive failure. remember a hard drive is magnetic and considerably more sensitive to current issues than other equipment.
(4) Low voltage lighting puts some odd sound into a circuit.
There are other non circuit stuff such as radar detectors, cell towers, microwave towers, ham radio towers, cb base station towers, and various local and state public service radio/microwave/shortwave towers that can cause what looks like failure. Dishnetworks superdish line was one that experienced issues with all of these. Starband sat net experienced issues where it interferred with communications on military bases and had to fix their issue.
Problems like this tend to fall into one of the following.
(1) Old wiring such as the cloth wrapped stuff from your grandpa's youth, you'll still find this stuff in many old rural homes that have stayed in the same family for generations.
(2) Overloaded circuit wich can be found in number one and in homes where a do-it-yourselfer has put more appliances onto a circuit than it was ment to handle.
(3) Faulty appliance on a circuit thas backfeeding noise into the wiring can disrupt sensitive equipment and damage said equipment causing pixeling and hard drive failure. remember a hard drive is magnetic and considerably more sensitive to current issues than other equipment.
(4) Low voltage lighting puts some odd sound into a circuit.
There are other non circuit stuff such as radar detectors, cell towers, microwave towers, ham radio towers, cb base station towers, and various local and state public service radio/microwave/shortwave towers that can cause what looks like failure. Dishnetworks superdish line was one that experienced issues with all of these. Starband sat net experienced issues where it interferred with communications on military bases and had to fix their issue.
Yes, it would. You can buy one for $600 or sign a two year deal, only options.
If you want HD with out DVR then you have no options, they don't sell a HD non-DVR box.
I have noticed that too. Not saying it to criticize the OP, but maybe you should look at your setup more closely. Have you had any problems with any of the other equipment on that circuit, and are they all plugged into the same surge protector?
Check the electrical outlette to be sure the wiring is securely atached at the posts, also consider that the breaker could be bad. It really isnt common to experience the receiver issues that you have been through and anyone in the industry can tell you this so please do consider that there may be something going on. Another possibility that Ive seen is during the construction of a house a nail hit the 110 line and caused problems.
As long as your adding a rec, it will trigger an extension, if you are replacing one HD with another like HD then NO it should not.
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