Max receivers in one residence?

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I asked my installer and he said six in total. But when I spoke to customer support they said only 5 (she said it just changed recently).

Can anyone tell me for sure?

Thank you.
 
If you do a search in this forum, you will read several numbers and combinations with buying and renting. I don't think anyone knows for sure.
 
Unless it changed since I got fired (21/09/2007) the maximum of receivers permitted was 6. Dual tuners like the 9200 counts as 1

All receivers needs to be hooked to a telephone line, and if they are not you might get a call from our SAT departement requesting to gather some information on your receivers

If they didn't reach you after a certain number of calls all your receivers but 2 will be disabled and you would only be able to reactivate by doing the verification with them

After a cretain number of time that they reach you and you either refuse to do it or have no time they will disconnect all but 2 of your receivers. You would only be able to reactivate them by doing the verification

 
Gee I have only ever had one receiver hooked up to my telco line. Previously it was a 2700 for 5 years never connected. Now my 5200 sits in the bedroom with no telco line connected. Never got any calls about them either.
 
See what I mean with the variety of numbers? No one really knows for sure. I have heard 7 myself...
 
I have 6 at the moment. 5 bought and a new HD-PVR as a rental. None have ever been plugged into a telephone line. I have had to verify the odd receiver when I call in for tech problems.
 
Number is 6...

If you have more than 6 you need to open a new account...

Certain clients that signed in between 1997-2000 we allowed 7 receivers on their account, but only those clients could have 7
 
6 receivers a maximum of 12 Tuners.

Unless you are a Bell VIP etc then the sky is the limit.....lol
 
This thread really pisses me off. :mad: I called a couple weeks back to rent a 9200 from bell, they denied me due to the fact I live in the Yukon and they don't have any installers in the area. **** out of luck on the rental idea.

So after she told me that I would be forced to buy one (and since I already having 5 recievers on my account), she asked me which reciever I wanted to remove from my account because a 9200 counted as two recievers.

Seeing as how I only wanted to watch HD and have the ability to record it, I would rarely watch and record at the same time. She told me that was not the intent of the 9200. it was to provide HD PVR to one TV and a SD to a second TV via coax.

I refuse to be forced to run a second line from the new 9200 to the TV that will now have a cancelled reciever. Two floors away and on the other side of the hosue. So, I went down and bought a 6100. I get HD but can't record.

Crap deal due to hearsay in the workplace. A good case of the blind leading the blind during training.
 
Seeing this is your first post, welcome aboard!

How big is your dish to get BEVu from Yukon?

-gmd
 
We regularly install 6 receivers for customers.

As a New customer you can get 4 receivers installed for free, the next 2 will be billable, all can be installed at the same time.
 
sirrox - sorry to hear the person you talked to didn't know what they were doing. However, if you are inclined, it may be worth a call to explain what happened and see if they will allow you to upgrade the 6100 to the 9200 (as there was another thread about this being allowed as well as the fact you were misinformed).

Rule of thumb - if you don't like the answer you get on the phone, say "Thank you", hang up, call back and try again :)
 
The 9200 should only count as one receiver; call back and talk to another CSR and make sure you're clear about receiver vs. tuner. Unless they've changed their policy recently, it was a receiver count rather than a tuner count.

I've got 6 receivers, one of which is a 9200, so I have 7 tuners. I'd like to add more since I have a couple of TVs that don't currently have their own satellite feed (they just get the output of TV2 on the 9200), and with the 4100 receiver being fairly cheap I'd like to give them a dedicated receiver. Unfortunately, Bell won't let me - I'd be forced to open a 2nd account and pay for all of my programming twice. No thanks!
 
gmd: thanks for the welcome. I have the normal ones (24" I think). I had a 48" channel master in my last house and it was bomber. Only one case of fade I know of in over 5 years. Due to a major wind/wet snow storm.

We do need the 2 dishes up here for HD, the one dish cannot pick up both sats. And these little dishes do suffer from poor signal on precip days, they have to be tuned in well. Most transponders average in the 60 range, some mid 60's, some 50's.

dosborne: I am tempted to call them, but of course I bought the reciever from a local independent dealer ( a bell rep, but a local electronics store). I could only imagine the headache.
 
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