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Boxrkisses · RV-Dreams Community Member

Dish Sat. TV question for new camper

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

We use a Tailgator with dish, but I don't believe you can DVR with it without paying more for the upgraded receiver. As far ar the cabling, for a system like the tailgator it needs a dedicated cable because it receives its power from the receiver.

Boxrkisses · RV-Dreams Community Member

So with the Tailgater you cant use the DVR cable box I currently have in the house? Ive become so addicted to DVR and no commercials

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

I also use a tailgator.....with a 211k Receiver...

Boxrkisses · RV-Dreams Community Member

Mike... does that receiver have DVR

Boxrkisses · RV-Dreams Community Member

Also, did you do the wiring your self for it? Does it really find your satellites as easy as the video shows?

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Walk outside, set it down .....aim the tail....................BaDa!...Bing!....BadaBang!!!!!........as far as wiring I keep 50 feet of cable and feed mine thru the window...(to lazy to wire it thru the bay!)

Fergizmo · RV-Dreams Family Member

I also have the Dish Network 211 K receiver. I bought an external USB hard drive and they activated it for 50 bucks. Now I have a DVR with no additional monthly charges. The bigger hard drive you buy, the bigger the capacity of your DVR.

Dish network pay as you go.

Boxrkisses · RV-Dreams Community Member

Thanks yall.... may I ask what y'all are using for internet?

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

Millinicom........there isnt anything else that compares for the price!!!!.......20GB 69 dollars

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

James and Gina,

We use an AT&T mifi on our family share plan for internet. $180 per month for 3 devices (2 phones and the mifi unit) and it includes 15gb of data to share. We also have Dish w/ the 411K reciever. Since you already have the receivers and the dish why not just get a tripod to mount it on and go with that, many folks do. They sell some handy devices that will help you aim them and can be set up pretty quickly with a little practice.
We had a tailgator and yes, it is very easy to use but does have some drawbacks. You can only use the 411K receiver with them so if yours is different then you would need to buy a new one. They also can only look at one satellite at a time so you cannot watch one channel in the bedroom and another in the living room. We also have a external hard drive serving as our DVR and it works perfect, others might be able to correct me but when we bought our 211K they did not offer it with a built in DVR so this was our only option if we wanted one.

Just some food for thought,

Phil

-- Edited by Workinrvers on Tuesday 4th of March 2014 08:46:30 PM

Alie and Jims Carrilite · RV-Dreams Family Member

Lucky Mike wrote:
Millinicom........there isnt anything else that compares for the price!!!!.......20GB 69 dollars

X2

RustenBarusten · RV-Dreams Community Member

Where did you pick up the DVR.? We need one to watch our shows that come on past the time we go to bed. We are planing on going dish pay as you go when the Rv parks we stay at don't have it.

RustenBarusten · RV-Dreams Community Member

I guesswhat I need you to explain is theexternal hard drive acting as a DVR.

Joe_Camper · RV-Dreams Family Member

RustenBarusten wrote:
I guesswhat I need you to explain is theexternal hard drive acting as a DVR.

I'd like to hear more about that, as well. When we go full-time, we will want a DVR of some sort. It will need to be easy to operate or my DW will have problems with it. Does the receiver have software that works with the external drive to catalog and display titles, descriptions, etc?

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

www.mydish.com/support/use-ehd

news.directv.com/2011/08/11/increase-recording-capacity-on-your-dvr-or-hd-dvr/

these should help!!

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

www.youtube.com/watch

this is also helpful

Joe_Camper · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks Mike! Duh! I should have thought about looking at Dish! :)

Jimmer · RV-Dreams Community Member

The 211 K does work as a DVR with an added hard drive. Dish charges a one time $40 fee and is for as many 211k's as you have. The limitations are, it is only a 1 tuner DVR, therefore you need to watch whatever is recording. You can add an off air antenna to the 211k and then you at least are able to record one sat channel and one off air channel at the same time.

Summersquash · RV-Dreams Family Member

You can use the tailgter with your current Dish receiver and & it will record. It will only work for one tv though. But you can watch recorded shows on the other tv.