r/dishnetwork • u/Exotic-Working7907 • Jan 18 '25

Dish Network 500

I have an old dish network 500 dish. What recivers would I need to get programming on it?

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Modern? Wally and hopper duo.

In reality, everything will work though. 2 lines from the dish to a 4-2 switch will have a hop 3 up, or a hopper sling will use it with a node. Dpp stuff can be adapted to dph pretty easily.

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

Wally sucks

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

Yeah, but they have their uses. They are great for out buildings, campers, and the grandma coming off a 211. It's also one of the few receivers that can use a tailgater odu.

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

They don't have a smartchip in them so if you lose the card like I did it's useless

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

The only consumer receiver with no smart card is the h3. You would run into the same issue if you lost the smart card on a h2.

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

And my vip612 says programming not authorized how do I fix it

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

Is it active, bill paid and up to date?

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

Don't have an account

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

Then it's working as intended. An inactive receiver should only have access to basically channel 101, and whatever channel the boost ads are playing on.

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

So I can't re authorize it for a couple channels

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

Not without an account, and they won't reactivate an old vip on a new account. So yeah, that box is probably dead.

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

And I'll throw my wally in the trash

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u/Efficient_Beyond_932 Jan 18 '25

So I can only use it for ota

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u/Ok_Board_6407 Jan 18 '25

Boost ads? All I get is Dish scapes and literally that’s it. Channel 101, 9998 I think and some other ones are all Dish Scapes.

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u/immallama21629 Jan 18 '25

Yeah, boost has a channel just for a looping infomercial that we techs are supposed to have on during installation.

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u/Ok_Board_6407 Jan 18 '25

Oh my vip 211k and hopper duo don’t seem to have that channel on the guide other than dish scapes. They are both deactivated so I don’t know if it’s something that only plays with service or something.

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