Posted: 12/30/2008 5:31:08 PM EDT
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I have a 4 room install. Three standard and 1 HD reciever. These are owned by Directv. You pay an access fee per reciever, so its the same price as owning. Each reciever has it own cable running from the dish into the house.
I bought my wife a HD DVR with two tunners. Had my wife call about the install, since my arm is in a sling. First person said just to swap it out with the one we are going to replace. I told her to call back as it needed another line so you could watch one and record another. I was then told I could run a splitter at the end of the line. Is this correct ? Is it going to degrade the signal running more than 1 box off the samwe line? I was thinking I was going to need another line for the DVR and one into the kitchen to hook up the one we took out. The inlaws and I were going to use it in the campers. No sense in paying 5.00 a month to let it set. |
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Just went and checked my dish, I am running the same exact setup you want.
I have 4 leads off the dish (3 actual recievers on the dish itself) runs into a 6x8 switching box and then the 2 hd leads runs into the living room, and the 3 non hd leads run into the rooms. Not sure if this helps you or not. ETA I thought you were running dual lines into the hd reciever, not into a seperate hd dvr. |
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I just had HD installed at my house. After talking with the tech, the different wire carry different voltages. Odds and evens are different voltages as well as different sets of satellites for HD and non-HD.
Who knows if this is true, but this is what he told me. |
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I have a 4 room install. Three standard and 1 HD reciever. These are owned by Directv. You pay an access fee per reciever, so its the same price as owning. Each reciever has it own cable running from the dish into the house. I bought my wife a HD DVR with two tunners. Had my wife call about the install, since my arm is in a sling. First person said just to swap it out with the one we are going to replace. I told her to call back as it needed another line so you could watch one and record another. I was then told I could run a splitter at the end of the line. Is this correct ? Is it going to degrade the signal running more than 1 box off the samwe line? I was thinking I was going to need another line for the DVR and one into the kitchen to hook up the one we took out. The inlaws and I were going to use it in the campers. No sense in paying 5.00 a month to let it set. You can use one line only if you have SWM equipment, if not you need a multi-switch and an additional line to use two tuners. I think your on your own with SWM equipment as Directv is not giving it out for old installs. Directv might charge for a multi-switch and the new line, im not sure. If they do, you might ask for programming discount to offset the cost. BTW, SWM stands for "single wire multi-switch" and is only available for certain receivers. Most newer ones should, my R22 is compatible. They now have SWMline dishes that only require one line into the dwelling instead of four, but every reciever must be swm compatible. I am planning to get a swm-8 multiswitch for my R22, because we need a switch either way, and I only have one line to the room. Sites of interest: DBSTalk Weaknees Solid Signal |