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BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Number 2 is the best option, I installed a legacy quad on the weekend, works perfect. You should be able to get one off ebay for under $30 shipped. DishPro is better but you need all DishPro receivers and rg6 cable installed. Then you can sell the dual lnb's on ebay, and make your money back.
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Option 2 is for a Dish Pro Quad LNB that has the switch built in. Bell does not support this option but it works great.
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Thanks, Why wouldn't option 2 work? Just run the wire that goes into the 9200 into separate receivers. Mrdark
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Alright, I figured it was too good to be true just using a SW44 on a single joint line inside the home to split the signal... So either way I have to run another line into my home then...I don't plan to ever upgrade to more than 2 IRD's anyways so I was hoping to avoid having to run an extra line but alright, thats the way I gotta do it then! (Guess it will have to wait till summer, no way im climbing on my icy roof this winter ) Thanks West. AK
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread With satellites there are no splitters. You will need a switch. An SW44 to be exact. See this thread http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=26721 Your using option #3. (BTW the "DP Plus Dual Tuner" shown can be though of as two seperate receivers.)
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread I don't normally touch satellite installs anymore - just can't be bothered, but recently I used 4 quality high-bandwidth 2-way splitters and 2 sw44s to attempt to solve this issue (suggested by 3 different BELL people) for a client and it kind of works. They had a single sw44 and 4 receivers, and added a fifth. There is intermittant channel loss on all 5 receivers on the premises. I'm guessing this has something to do with the size of the house (HUGE) and the long wire runs. I will try the SW44a with an SW44 next week and see if it works better than the splitters. Putting passive splitters into a satellite systems has never seemed like a very smart thing to do. We may just need more boost in the voltage/signal. Another dish is not an option - multi-million dollar house finished in stone. There's no clean way to do it and no way the client would have another dish sticking to the side of the house. We shall see......
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Is that a good deal? That's about 21
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread I have recently bought my 3rd and 4th bell receivers, with a seconded LNB device. So I have 4 cables coming of the satellite. My question is, Do I have to have a splitter? Or can I run one of the cables to each individual receiver? Thanks, Mrdark
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread No, you wouldn't need the SW21 switch at the dish anymore. The SW44 has four satellite inputs, which take the two 82 inputs from one LNBF and the two 91 inputs from the other - this requires four cables from the dish to the switch. The switch can then supply four separate tuners - either four separate receivers or a combination of single tuner (e.g. 6100) and dual tuner (e.g. 9200) receivers. You will be able to receive all the channels on both receivers, except for the HD channels - they require an HD receiver.
BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread Well, I managed to find an SW-44A for sale today in Burlington so I bought it, and hopefully within a couple of weeks I'll have everything working as it should. Those threads you guys pointed out were very helpful...thanks! There's a guy in Edmonmton selling 100' rolls of RG-6 on Ebay for $5.79 CDN plus another $15 for shipping. Does he know something the rest of us don't, or have I been getting hosed on cable all these years? I'm going to wager the money and find out... Chuck
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