Personally I can relate entirely to not wanting some low-level tech installing my dish. All the good techs have good jobs and they get paid way more than dish can pay for doing the freebie installs. The good techs work installing T1 for the phone company or configuring routers and switches...

Last month I busted my 2DVR, AEP+locals + extra stuff package that was $139/month back to AT250, 1DVR (a 622) + locals. I should now be in the 70-80$/month range. The big thing besides saving a bunch of cash was there really isnt much on HBO to watch right now and the other channels are...

I have the 30" wineguard for 129 + separate 24" for 110/119/148. Overkill but I love it. No dropouts.

This is going to be a great feature since in a few months I will be moving 2 miles beyond the nearest POTS phone line and will only have ethernet/wireless internet. Anyways. For wireless ethernet I have been testing buffalo ethernet converter and Access Point and they seem to work really well...

$417 for a free professional bone job? Now I know why I always do my own installs! Also having it "professionally installed", I'd never get 24"/24"/30"/24" separate dishes for my 110/119/129/148 setup so why bother ... Man that 129 signal level rocks on the 30"

Claude, I was hassled by an audit team in which they shutdown my account during a complicated inter-state move (I had my receivers in a box so they could not call in ...apparently a big no no!). So I got out my 150$/month dish bill and busted it back to HD only on a single 942 for 30 bucks a...

In response to the initial poster of this thread.... Now I know why I buy my own equipment and install it myself!!!! It would scare the living hell out of me to hand over such a complicated setup and install to someone that would have trouble graduating out of high school and/or could not give...

Im so glad I "moved" to LA after my local A**H**LE CBS station denied my waiver to get CBSHD years ago. *hint* Sometimes you just have to qualify yourself for a "waiver"....heh heh heh. on the weekend My CBSHD went poof. No problemo ... I Swung the ol 148 dish to 129 and now I have ABCHD...