Dish reciever being phased out?
I was going to buy a Dish VIP 211Z receiver to be able to get month to month service using my "FLEX VUQUBE". I went to the Camping World online store and I see the 211Z is on sale. I checked a couple ...
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If you haven't bought yet, try to find and buy the older 211K model. It's a better choice for the RV. The older 'K' model has a coax input so you can hook up your onboard TV antennae feed directly to the 211k. Dish will scan the local channels and they will appear as selections in your guide for viewing and/or DVRing.
The 211z does NOT have the coax input, rather Dish would like you to buy their local channel adapter which is essentially a coax to USB device. You plug the adapter into the USB port and from that point on it will appear to work just like the 211K's built-in one. BUT!! if you plan on adding an external harddrive so you can DVR shows, the 211z is a disaster.
Both the external harddrive and the external local adapter will occupy the only 2 USB ports at the back of the 211z. Problem is that both ports share one electronic bus. This means that if you are trying to DVR a local program, the 211z must do memory swaps between the shared USB bus. The result is a DVR'd event that is so choppy it is basically unviewable.
I am selling my 211z and the local channel adapter. Then I'll be looking on Craigs list to buy a used 211K. By the way, while in Quartzite and the big RV show, I asked the Dish vendor if he had a local adapter for sale and he said he had one that I could have for half-price because they were only going to sell the K model since the Z got so many complaints.
The 211z does NOT have the coax input, rather Dish would like you to buy their local channel adapter which is essentially a coax to USB device. You plug the adapter into the USB port and from that point on it will appear to work just like the 211K's built-in one. BUT!! if you plan on adding an external harddrive so you can DVR shows, the 211z is a disaster.
Both the external harddrive and the external local adapter will occupy the only 2 USB ports at the back of the 211z. Problem is that both ports share one electronic bus. This means that if you are trying to DVR a local program, the 211z must do memory swaps between the shared USB bus. The result is a DVR'd event that is so choppy it is basically unviewable.
I am selling my 211z and the local channel adapter. Then I'll be looking on Craigs list to buy a used 211K. By the way, while in Quartzite and the big RV show, I asked the Dish vendor if he had a local adapter for sale and he said he had one that I could have for half-price because they were only going to sell the K model since the Z got so many complaints.
