How does a satellite account get verified?
Not exactly keeping me awake at night, but I am curious about how a satellite provider (DISH, Sirius, etc.) validates that a legal device is connecting and determines what services are available to th...
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If they are not legal units or decoded with your SAT info then you simply just don't see anything... When you call DISH or DIRECTV to have them turn you back on which used to happen to us when we moved a SAT RCVR and had to unplug it, they send down the activate code to your SAT RCVR and then will ask you if it came on now... I finally figured out I could this this on-line with my account number so started doing that all the time I needed to and not bother a real person...
The SAT guys used to tell you it was required to hookup a telephone line to the SAT RCVR but that hasn't happened here at my SAT RCVRs for many years now... In the old days that was always neat to have because they would also display on the bottom of your TV screen when you got a phone call using CALLER-ID data...
Same thing occurs with all of the various BOXES all of the cable tv guys require you have... They get programed to work under your account number via the cable line - nothing gets sent back up the line to the cable company for the ones I have used...
Roy Ken
The SAT guys used to tell you it was required to hookup a telephone line to the SAT RCVR but that hasn't happened here at my SAT RCVRs for many years now... In the old days that was always neat to have because they would also display on the bottom of your TV screen when you got a phone call using CALLER-ID data...
Same thing occurs with all of the various BOXES all of the cable tv guys require you have... They get programed to work under your account number via the cable line - nothing gets sent back up the line to the cable company for the ones I have used...
Roy Ken
