I am ready to attempt to get my Ku antenna working. I have been using my receiver to get Echostar 7 from a DBS dish but I've had no luck at all with getting the Ku antenna to work. My goal is to get either AMC 4 101 W or the 99 W bird for the GloryStar channels. The antenna is an old Primestar...

I hope it's OK to post this but I started a little family friendly blog just to kill time that some of my readers say I should promote more. It is a chronicle of sorts about my experiences with 3 cats that started hanging out by my door and their interrelations with the world. Blackie The Wise...

This forum has kinda been dead compared to the SA DBS days. Is it because this IPTV version is so much better and virtually problem free after the initial install or are there just way less subscribers? Now I'm sure this forum has only attracted a small fraction of the groups as a whole. Still...

I certainly am not the 1st and know I will not be the last but I need to vent. So I called to close my account not long ago (got dumped off to a closed dept trying to sell me DSL as I left the 1st try) and was told if I changed my mind the reactivation fee would be waived and was volunteered as...

I got a PM from a SA IPTV supporter whom claimed GlroyStar is "scheduled to cease broadcasting the last quarter of '09." Is there any truth to this? If so, what is needed to prevent it?

I'm curious about something. I'm in Pinellas County and my zip code is shared with 2 cities (Kenneth City & St. Pete) and the unincorporated county. When I first got internet service I was told I had to pay a small monthly additional fee if I listed my billing address as county but nothing extra...

Right now I just have their internet at 7 Mbps download and supposedly 512k Kbps upload. I stream video from my security cameras and have Vonage. All was well until I switched a virtual Vonage number to be a 2nd primary Vonage line. Now when the cameras are streaming the party on the other end...

Got my coupons cards last week and the mailing lists locally Radio Shack, Best Buy, Wal*Mart, and Circuit City. I take it there's no difference in that actual performance of the box? And one poster said he liked the RCA at Wal*Mart because it also had buttons on the box itself. So maybe the...

I just saw mom's phone bill and it seems that apparently without official notice (at least that I could find) her DSL is going up $5. She only has the basic service and it's been $15 the whole time she's had it and now it will be $20. So I went to the package comparison page and it seems new...

From the Dish Forum: Oddly, I made a few suggestions in regards to salvaging the bird back just after the rescue attempt options were initially discussed. Or looking at it another way, SA needed a bird and here is one with flaws (being a shorter lifespan) that could have been had for scrap by...

I'm just curious why nobody suggested this. Since the end of SA is April 1 is anybody considering making a call to them on the coincidental day of practical jokes & gags to pretend like they never heard about the end of service or IPTV? :) All things considered I doubt it would cost them much...

For all wondering if Dish would have a great conversion deal looks like this is it, for what it's worth. The wording is kinda silly in one respect, since we all HAVE receivers and it also talks about installing equipment. And of course they claim you get up to $200 incentives by switching to...

I just noticed that CTN has been added to Direct TV as channel 376. Since I'm in Tampa Bay I know that much of Angel 2 is/ was a rebroadcast of CTN Clearwater, FL.

I'm selling a receiver and someone PMed me asking what my 6 digit code in the bottom right of the access card was. I was suspicious of this request and checked his recent purchases and saw at least 3 card readers bought so I did not respond to the PM. Does this code just refer to information...

I was browsing the Dish forums and saw that some big announcement may be made tonight. Given our situation, I'm wondering if life after Sky Angel will be among the topics? And be forewarned! You probably don't want the kiddies watching. Perhaps you may even want to record and skip forward. Why...

So out of the blue I received an email notice that my account billed. Except I knew I hadn't been subscribed to any Dish services for a while now for the reasons I have shared here previously. So I went to check out my account and it of course just said my last payment was nearly a year ago and...

As we near the end of January and technically we could lose SA any day within the next 60 or so days I am only a little surprised that Dish has made no effort to win us over to their service. Such an offer well may never come. I can't say if they are contractually bound not to make any such...

Just wanted to say hi! I started looking for satellite forums mainly to put an old but never used Primestar dish to work to get mostly the GloryStar programming. It's a bit of a struggle but at least I have my years of Dish & Direct TV experience so that I at least kinda know what needs to...