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liquorman · July 22nd, 2006, 09:42 AM

I have Dish Network 500 service with one receiver right now. Is it possible to buy a second receiver and activate it with Dish Network (and pay the extra $5.00 per month) but use it in a different location with a 2nd dish? Or do all receivers on an account have to be hooked up to the same dish? I am trying to have satellite service in two different places without paying for service twice. Thanks for any help.

Darin

vaggs24 · July 22nd, 2006, 04:02 PM

[QUOTE=liquorman]I have Dish Network 500 service with one receiver right now. Is it possible to buy a second receiver and activate it with Dish Network (and pay the extra $5.00 per month) but use it in a different location with a 2nd dish? Or do all receivers on an account have to be hooked up to the same dish? I am trying to have satellite service in two different places without paying for service twice. Thanks for any help.

Darin[/QUOTE]
i am with u on this, i have the same question,plz can anyone help us .it would be great.if anyone can help.

ebms1 · July 22nd, 2006, 04:25 PM

[QUOTE=liquorman]I have Dish Network 500 service with one receiver right now. Is it possible to buy a second receiver and activate it with Dish Network (and pay the extra $5.00 per month) but use it in a different location with a 2nd dish? Or do all receivers on an account have to be hooked up to the same dish? I am trying to have satellite service in two different places without paying for service twice. Thanks for any help.

Darin[/QUOTE]

yes you can ... but dish frowns on this ... but it will work... if you go outside your local area you may loose you locals

vaggs24 · July 22nd, 2006, 04:42 PM

[QUOTE=ebms1]yes you can ... but dish frowns on this ... but it will work... if you go outside your local area you may loose you locals[/QUOTE]
it will work,but wat do u have to do to get the service on two different locations.plz let me know

shadough · July 22nd, 2006, 08:27 PM

It will work just fine. Technically it is illegal and if your caught you could be fined for the service at the new address back to your original accnt start date. So basically, just DONT plug your receiver into a phone line. If the 2nd address is more than 200 miles away, you may go 'out of range' of the spot beam for your local channels. All you need is a 2nd dish at the new location, if the 2 dishes are different, you may need to run 'check switch' every time you go back from place to place.

ebms1 · July 23rd, 2006, 08:58 AM

[QUOTE=vaggs24]it will work,but wat do u have to do to get the service on two different locations.plz let me know[/QUOTE]

all you need to do is add a recv to your acct
put up a dish & hook up the recv

star1701gazer · October 20th, 2007, 01:09 PM

I was doing this also, but a tech frined said they could send a signal and find out where my dish is, and if its not at my service address they would charge me.....is this true?

ebms1 · October 20th, 2007, 02:17 PM

[QUOTE=star1701gazer;1968561530]I was doing this also, but a tech frined said they could send a signal and find out where my dish is, and if its not at my service address they would charge me.....is this true?[/QUOTE]

well ... you dont want to run a phone line to it

linn · June 4th, 2008, 09:28 PM

have two recv on direct and have an old dish's dish will it work on directs recv

LXSWRX · June 18th, 2008, 08:48 PM

You can be fined big time.
It is called account stacking and is highly illegal.
You can get away with it, but it's not worth the risk.
Yes it is true, Dish has ways of finding out staked accounts.

thebandit · June 19th, 2008, 12:58 AM

all you need is another dish for the other receiver. I have a couple receivers at home and one that I take with me up to my cabin. When I upgraded to another receiver I gave the guy that came to install it some cash for another dish. He put it together for me and even the settings. I had an old head for the dish from a buddy of mine.

Glacier991 · September 6th, 2008, 11:42 AM

I was delighted to find this thread, and equally delighted to see someone from DISH Network was posting as well. My situation is much as described... here's my dilemma:

I live in Sacramento,CA. I currently have a Hi Def capable theatre, and use an OTA receiver to get local High def broadcasts. I do not have cable or satellite.

I have a 2nd home about 90 miles away in the mtns, where OTA reception is impossible. Up there I have cable, and frankly, it sucks.

I'd like to have a wider range of channels available to me here, and be able to solve my bad cable reception problems "up there" without paying two monthly fees, since I cannot be in both places at the same time.

I won't be a bandit nor will I engage in anything illegal.

Can I put a satellite dish up in the mtns to receive a signal and carry my Sacramento based receiver back and forth and be legal? Or, put another way - What can I do legally, if anything, to aviod TWO monthly fees when I will only be using one location at a time?

I'm hoping the fellow from DISH might see this and give me their take on it.

Thanks.

Muggles · September 6th, 2008, 03:03 PM

My advise............fwiw..............

Call DIsh and tell them you want to install a system in a RV. That should cover you anywhere you want to take it.

shadough · July 16th, 2010, 09:19 PM

The only legal way to do it is install dish network service at BOTH addresses, w/ 1 receiver for each location. Arrange it w/ DIsh to only have 1 receiver active at a given time. When you head to the mtns, call dish an tell em to deactivate the one at home an activate the 1 in the mtns. This will save you from actually paying for 2 accounts, by having one dormant.

Of course you can follow the advice of others in this thread an activate service in the mtns, an bring your reciever home but YOU would need to put up your own dish there. You don't want dish getting wind of it.

And the rumors are false about DISH being able to track where your receiver is UNLESS of course its connected to a phone line. However, every receiver does get assigned a 'location id' but this information is only viewable from the reciever itself, the location id is not sent up to the sky an back to dish. Allthough dish does have a sub-contractor that does check up on users w/ multiple recievers. They will call you just to verify the location id's of all your recievers and if you cannot provide that info for some of them, they will shut off those you cannot.