Home Networking with a Dish Receiver
From the frustration pages of home networking, this blog comes just in time to save your sanity!
Internet going down? Having to restart or reset your router only to find that your super special Dish Receiver is not working properly? Fear not there is a simple solution that may help.
In this scenario, the Dish service is working properly but the router/modem for your internet provider is having issues. Before you start calling tech support, ready to blast some poor call center rep, try this method:
Unplug all devices connected to your internet provider's modem (the little guy plugged directly to the cable coming out of your wall)
Turn off the power and wait a few seconds
Plug the power back into the modem
Wait for the little blinking signs of life (no blinking lights or just solid lights is not a good sign and you may need to call to check if there is an outage)
Once the modem has restarted take the Ethernet cable from the Dish Receiver that you unplugged with everything else and plug it into the first port
Turn on the Dish Receiver and the device will connect as long as your broadband connection is working
Lastly, reconnect your other computers and devices (in any order) and you should be back up and running
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