Pay as you go satellite

stargirl96 wrote:
We had Dish pay as you go, but canceled it after two years. We were told there wouldn't be a bill as long as we notified Dish to put it on pause. That turned out to be false because we were charged $6 every month it wasn't used. Then, if it isn't used for several months Dish will activate service and you will get a regular satellite bill. It just wasn't worth the hassle of having to contact Dish and argue about charges.

I would suggest that your account was setup wrong or you did not have RV "Pay as you go" plan. I only pay for the 3-4 months I use. I never turn mine off. It turns itself off when the month expire and I do not pay for the next. After about 90 days of inactive, they will deactivate the account. In the spring, I call them to reactivate and pay for a month and they reactivate.

Bill.Satellite wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The nice thing about the Pathway is that ALL of the Dish programming is available on the 72.7 satellite so 2 receivers can watch whatever programming they like with only 1 restriction. There are NO Networks available on 72.7.
If you want to watch any Network programming you are going to be limited to each receiver watching programming coming from that 1 satellite.

Bill, Dish recently moved the majority of the "cable" channels from 72.7 to 61.5. I'm still waiting to see what they have in mind for 72.7 since their lease with Telesat Canada is for the expected 15 year life of the satellite. It launched in 2009. Here's the current list of what channels are on each of the eastern arc satellites. Note the lack of popular channels like History, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, etc., as well most sports and national news channels, on 72.7.

I had not seen that information as this would be completely awesome but would really overload the 61.5 as that's where most all of the Network programming is coming from. What ever happened to the 77 satellite? Anything there any more?
Where can I find a listing of what programming is coming from what satellite?

Oops! I thought I posted the list link, but apparently not. Here you go: Eastern Arc Channels on DISH Network

The local network stations on 61.5 are mostly spot beamed, and Dish says they have plenty of capacity at this point. I am wondering what's in store for Nimiq 5 at 72.7 though. 77 is still hanging in there, and carries a fair amount of duplicate programming and I believe Spanish language programming. The newer eastern arc LNB's though, are only dual units for 61.5 and 72.7.

Dutch_12078 wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The nice thing about the Pathway is that ALL of the Dish programming is available on the 72.7 satellite so 2 receivers can watch whatever programming they like with only 1 restriction. There are NO Networks available on 72.7.
If you want to watch any Network programming you are going to be limited to each receiver watching programming coming from that 1 satellite.

Bill, Dish recently moved the majority of the "cable" channels from 72.7 to 61.5. I'm still waiting to see what they have in mind for 72.7 since their lease with Telesat Canada is for the expected 15 year life of the satellite. It launched in 2009. Here's the current list of what channels are on each of the eastern arc satellites. Note the lack of popular channels like History, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, etc., as well most sports and national news channels, on 72.7.

I had not seen that information as this would be completely awesome but would really overload the 61.5 as that's where most all of the Network programming is coming from. What ever happened to the 77 satellite? Anything there any more?
Where can I find a listing of what programming is coming from what satellite?

We had Dish pay as you go, but canceled it after two years. We were told there wouldn't be a bill as long as we notified Dish to put it on pause. That turned out to be false because we were charged $6 every month it wasn't used. Then, if it isn't used for several months Dish will activate service and you will get a regular satellite bill. It just wasn't worth the hassle of having to contact Dish and argue about charges.

SaltiDawg wrote:
Any Dish Receiver I have owned, including my current 622 and 722k receivers do not have an On/Off switch. They are always "On" - the screen saver may be actuated, but the receiver itself is On. (

The receiver actually draws the same amount of power in either mode - making it a large parasitic load when in "Standby."

The receiver is ALWAYS comparing the Guide or programming schedule to your list of scheduled recordings and starting and stopping active recording or tuning as scheduled.

Well the wally receivers I have have a on off button. In fact after I realized that the main receiver didn't have to be on to watch the other receiver in the bedroom I unplugged my main receiver and T.V.
I always did before satellite because we're running off of solar.
Mel

Bill.Satellite wrote:
The nice thing about the Pathway is that ALL of the Dish programming is available on the 72.7 satellite so 2 receivers can watch whatever programming they like with only 1 restriction. There are NO Networks available on 72.7.
If you want to watch any Network programming you are going to be limited to each receiver watching programming coming from that 1 satellite.

Bill, Dish recently moved the majority of the "cable" channels from 72.7 to 61.5. I'm still waiting to see what they have in mind for 72.7 since their lease with Telesat Canada is for the expected 15 year life of the satellite. It launched in 2009. Here's the current list of what channels are on each of the eastern arc satellites. Note the lack of popular channels like History, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, etc., as well most sports and national news channels, on 72.7.

The nice thing about the Pathway is that ALL of the Dish programming is available on the 72.7 satellite so 2 receivers can watch whatever programming they like with only 1 restriction. There are NO Networks available on 72.7.
If you want to watch any Network programming you are going to be limited to each receiver watching programming coming from that 1 satellite.

That sounds really good, Mel! The channel limitation with two receivers and a Pathway X2 is that you can watch different channels on each receiver, but only if those channels are on the same satellite. If the channel the "master" tunes to happens to be on 72.7 for instance, the "slave" receiver will not be able to watch channels that are on the 61.5 satellite. Fortunately, Dish recently moved the bulk of the most popular channels from 72.7 to 61.5, so that may not be an issue for most users. The majority of the eastern arc spot beamed local channels are also on 61.5, so that makes it even less likely there will be channel conflicts.

Any Dish Receiver I have owned, including my current 622 and 722k receivers do not have an On/Off switch. They are always "On" - the screen saver may be actuated, but the receiver itself is On. (

The receiver actually draws the same amount of power in either mode - making it a large parasitic load when in "Standby."

The receiver is ALWAYS comparing the Guide or programming schedule to your list of scheduled recordings and starting and stopping active recording or tuning as scheduled.

I should mention that when I did call dish to activate the customer service could not have been better. And now for another update, you only need the main receiver on while searching for satellites. After acquiring satelliteso you can turn the main receiver OFF and watch TV with the bedroom receiver. Some people here said that was not possible even the customer service lady said the main receiver had to be on,and even then she said it may not be possible to watch different channels in the bedroom. Completely wrong right now the wife is watching news in the bedroom and the main receiver has been off until just now I turned on the main receiver to watch the news. The campground host stopped by the other day and asked if I was getting a signal, I said yes over 200 crystal clear channels, he has spent the entire summer here with no signal from his tailgater. He said he was going to order a pathway X2. Seems he was hearing the same stuff I was. The bottom line is I'm so happy I went with the pathway and the wallys. I don't see how it could be any easier are better.
Mel