I recently installed a system that had 24 standard def receivers in a rack (cable system) and needed to also feed up to 8 HD receivers to various locations within 200 feet from rack. I used a slm5 dish, brought 4 cables in, ran them all through 4 port (all ports powering) HF splitters, and fed the 2 12 way multiswitches, and also fed a swm8 switch and 8 way splitter for the HD receivers.

My question is: Could I have run the 4 cables directly to the swm8, then used the legacy outputs to feed the multiswitches in the rack? Are there 4 legacy outputs, or can I split them to feed 2 multiswitches? Only require sat 101 in the rack, but everything else to the HD receivers.

My method seemed a little complicated, with all the splitters. Wondering if there was a better way.

Thanks for any suggestions.