DishnetPro or Dishnet Legacy

[fredfarmer]

I have a 2800 receiver that I' m wanting to get a dish 500 for, so that will pickup the 2 Dishnetwork satilites. I know that I need a sw21 for the legacy but could some one tell me the difference between the pro and the legacy and give me a list of the receivers that will and won't work with the 2 dishes.
Thanks

[woods]

all dish pro receivers will work with the legacy lnb. you just cant use dishpro lnb's with legacy receivers without the dishpro adapter.

301.10,301.13,508,510 dont know about the 501 or the 6000 but those are all dish pro.

[fredfarmer]

Thanks Woods
so the 2800 in bev terms is a 301 in dishnet terms. Correct?Is there anywhere in this forum that gives info on various setups and installations.

[TDC]

No, A Dish 301.010 is equivalent to a Bev 3100.

[fredfarmer]

Ok thats what I'm trying to get at, that would make a 2800 a legacy receiver and can only use legacy lnbs .Right this time! I thought there use to be at bell express.vu a section on all this setup stuff. Anybody know where it went. It was really helpful.
Thanks,

[TDC]

Correct the 2xxx line of recievers is the first ones that came out. Dish had a 2700 and a 2800. Not sure if Bev has a 2700. Anyway, anything older than a 3100 in the Bev world is a legacy receiver. You can use legacy recievers with DishPro LNBs but you need to get a DishPro adapter.

[fredfarmer]

Would there be any benefit going with a Dishpro vs a Legacy when I already have the Legacy receiver. I've never seen an adapter,what do they actually do and where would I find one? is ebay somewhere to start searching?
Thanks for all your help on this one!!

[TDC]

There is no real benefit other than the DishPro LNBs allow for the reception of multiple sats on one unit/dish (i.e. 110 & 119), and some support the connection of more than one receiver to the LNBs (some upto 4). You can do the same thing with legacy LNBs using either a multi LNB dish that has more than one LNB pointed to the correct sats, or two seperate dishes pointed to the correct sats along with a switch such as a SW21.

How many receivers are you looking at connecting, what type of LNBs do you currently have (i.e. single or dual feed), and how many sats to you want to pick up?

[TDC]

Just remembered you initially mentioned Bev. If you want to pick up Bev and want to connect one receiver, you will need a single dish with 1 LNB pointed to the main Bev sat at 91.

[fredfarmer]

I'm currently using a bev 3100.010 to bring in legal bev. I used to be magiccard2 until all that crapped out. The bev lnb is just a single with a dual feed which I haven't changed since I put it in 7or 8 years ago ,Ithink iam on 91. I bought a remaned 2800 last year hoping to get setup with dishnet but when nag2 came out I never did get up and going again. I'm planning on using the Avr-x with the 2800 now but I,m looking for a Dish that is compatible with it. Should I go with the legacy or get this adapter that you were talking about that way I can use the newer dishes and maybe have the ability to upgrade in the future. I kinow you said that the new receivers will run legacy but do the old dishes support hi-def. What really is the difference between them? is it just the switches are now built in?
I want to be able to bring in both the 110 and the 119 with the 2800 and eventually bev with another avr-x with the my existing 3100. Does this sound normal or is there an easier way to do this. I know there are new Dish 1000's out there now also. What would you do?
Thanks for all your help!!

[Pyotr]

To get both 110 and 119 for DISH on a 2800,you're best bet would be the 20" dish with a Legacy Twin lnb. There is also a Dishpro plus lnb that allows a pro and a legacy IRD.I've been told the pro plus has to have a pro ird connected to it before you can use the legacy.But,it sounds kinda funky to me so don't hold me to it.You can find all this stuff on ebay.

[fredfarmer]

Thanks everyone for their help, Its good to know that there are great people still out there willing to help when in need!!:) :)

[TDC]

If you need a new dish and don't want to spend a lot of money look around for the "generic" multi-head dishes that are available. These dishes will support multiple single or dual LNBs and if you combine them with a switch such as a SW21, they will allow any Dish receiver to get both 110 & 119. These dishes typically support 2 - 3 LNBs. If you are handy and do a little research, you can even add a LNB to get BEV at 91 on a different receiver. As for the high def, it is not a function of the LNB but the receiver.

You are correct in that the basic difference between the "old" style LNBs and the newer DishPro units is a built in switch and the the ability to pick up more than one sat on the LNB. The latter functionality is due to the fact that the DishPro LNBs contain more than one LNB in the housing.

[jrjorin]

You can use the older dual dish 500 lnbs with 2800. thats what i was useing until i wanted to add 2 more receivers. then i had to go with the dishpro quad lnb and 4 301s.
the really old ones your talking about that use the sw21 came with 2 single lnb or 2 duals.
personally i perfer the one that has the switch installed in it the dish500 dual works with dishpro and legacy receivers

[fredfarmer]

Thanks again for the help! I am now well informed on this topic