I am in the process of finishing my basement and am running electric and A/V cables so I can add a second R-10 to the media room with an eventual switch to HD as money becomes available. Right now I have a Hughes SD and an H21 both on two coax cables. I have the 5 lnb dish with 4 wires coming in the house. My question is how can the switch help me? Don't I still need two cable plugged in the back of the DVR to record two at once?
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Actually I just looked again and see the following configuration coming in the house. The HD dish has a multiple of cables coming down and in the basement. The problem is when the install was done right after the house was built the tech had to run two additional lines for the the tivo boxes we had. We neglected to tell the builders subcontractor we needed two coax cables in each tv room so they assumed we used cablevision and only needed one. The ran the cables after we moved in and didn't use a true splitter. It seems they just put a 4X4 junction port (looks like a splitter) with two going in and two going out. All of this occurrs as the cables come into the house.
I'll have to look at the schematics a bit better and see how the wires run. I really don't want to call DirecTV and have them come out and do something I know I am capable of doing myself.
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