Thread: BEV Home Signal Switching/Splitting/Cabling Discussion Thread

I also went the route of getting 4 high bandwidth splitters (5-2400Mhz) ahead of my 2 SW44's. Works perfectly. Funny thing is that I got my splitters for $1.50 each from the local dollar store!! I couldn't find small cables so I just bought the smallest cables I could find (3') and went with those.

-=Shaq=-

We've recently finished building a B&b in the High Arctic (north end of Baffin Island). I have planned on having Satellite TV in each of the guests rooms, and ours of course. To that end I installed our Express VU dish (4 foot) and ran cable runs into the house. From there they attached to a Leviton 3X8 Enhanced RF Distribution Module (2Ghz) which sends the signal to the rooms and the individual receivers. I've been unable to get a signal (there may be other problems as I may have moved into the shadow of the hills).

I recently found out that this Leviton Distribution Module may not work between a satellite dish and receivers. Does anyone know if that in fact is the case, and if so would something like the TERK 5X8 Multi Switch work with Express VU.

Help. My wife needs to watch Canadian Idol & my guests are getting bored.

Gouie,

I bought the Ideal brand from Home Depot ( $ 30 ?). These things work great ! I did however buy the wire stripper from the Source $12 - 16 ? It, also works great to prepare the wires.
The electrician at work looked at them and the fittings and loved them. He said it gives you a connection as good if not better than factory. They work for both RG59 and RG6. Plus the Ideal brand work with atleast 5 -6 brands of connectors.

Ok, I

yeah, the installer said the last resort would be to use a 2nd dish... but wouldn't my monthly bill be huge??? And running more wires from the roof to the basement would be a huge hassle.

The guy was at least friendly enough to talk to me about what he was doing and didnt assume that i was an idiot. Anyway he said that the whole thing about sat feeds is that the voltage has to stay the same in the wires, hence the powered mulitswitch. Now maybe im wrong but wouldnt putting a splitter in the sat feed before the mutliswitch cut the voltage?

The single is going to have to be split somewhere so we can use SW44s. Skyway are you suggesting using the 4 HF splitters on the feeds coming from the dish? Then into switches (it would be an SW44 and a SW22, 6 boxes, 2 of which are HD)?

I was thinking maybe splitting the single after the switch? but reading around that seems like a no no, the split comes before the switch... am i right?

Do you guys recommend any Hardware for this? anything i can get at the shack?

Thanks for the replies, maybe i can solve this before the installer comes to finish! hah

You may need these for DishPro equipment but not the Dish legacy equipment EV uses. 2 GHZ splitters work quite well. The wiring diagram is included with the Dish SW44s that EV sells.

I assumed that if I bought the Bell packeage that has four boxes for four TVs (one being the PVR) that there would anly be one dish. Am I wrong?

So the Bell SD signal is superior to the Shaw SD. That's interesting.

Ringmaster: I don't want to pay for both Bell and Shaw. I'll stick with one or the other. On another issue, I recently found out that some Shaw programming coming through a Shaw box can be protected from being recorded on a box like your Panasonic recorder. You get a "can not record" signal. This likely doesn't occur when you are just recording straight from the cable in analogue (no Shaw box). My concern is that if I get Bell Expressview with it's digital signal some of the SD programming will be protected. Have you ever seen this?

Thanks

I'm no expert as I just powered up my sw44. I read in an post from 2003 a method that that worked for someone else. He connected the LNBs, then Power Inserter, then receivers to Power Inserter and other receivers. Lastly, he plugged in the power supply. This didn't work for me so I tried something different.

I hooked everything up including the power, EXCEPT the LNBs. I hooked up one LNB input at a time and read what the switch found. If it didn't register an input, I moved the input to a different connection on the switch. When I was done, I found that 91 was on the 2nd and 3rd input and 82 was on 1st and 4th. To me, this would be different than the connections shown on the switch - 1B, 1A, 2B, 2A. It was slow checking one at a time but it is working.

Anyway, I know it sounds confusing but hope it helps.

With a *choice dish on your house, no wonder people would think you're watching porn with that suggestive LNB...

Hi all,
I've spent about an hour going through the archives here, and this topic has been well covered. I'd just like to offer up what I plan to do, and get a confirmation that it'll work:

I have (and sorry I don't have exact model numbers here),

From a dual LNB/ dual output dish:
The first two outputs from the 91 & 82 sats go to a SW21 switch in the basement, which then outs to my HD receiver. Yay, all is good and I don't want to touch this part.

The second line comes from the second LNB (picking up the non-HD sat....92?) and goes directly to the (non-HD) receiver in the bedroom. This is want to share with my old receiver (also non-HD) that is kicking around.

Everything I find says I can do this with a SW21 switch, but doesn't that switch 2 LNBs to one receiver?

What am I missing? Can this be done for under $40. I see how a SW44 switch would do it, but that kinda overkill (I need to add one receiver, not several), and it's quite costly.