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    DirecTV SWM 2 Dish Question

    Hi all, new to this forum, I searched and couldn't find the answer to this.

    To preface: I have a SWM Dish installation through DirecTV (I signed up Nov '08). The way it is set up is that I have a dish with 1 RG6 cable running from the dish to 8 way swm splitter/switch (the one with 2 red ports, and the power inverter). Anyways, this only supports 8 tuners according to DirecTV, and I have 5 DVRs (3 standard DVR, 2 HD DVRs) and 3 Regular (2 HD, 1 standard single tuner) recievers in my home.

    DirecTV's solution to them not telling about the 8 tuner limit prior to letting me get all this equipment is to install a second SWM dish and run a second line to a second 8 port swm splitter/switch, so I would essentially have two separate 8-tuner circuits in my house, one connected to each dish mounted on my roof. (I have a central wiring box, so I would just plug different rooms into each splitter.)

    My question is this: Is there any way to get all the tuners to work with my existing dish without having to install a second dish on my roof?
    Any equipment I can buy or can I connect the second RG6 cable to the original SWM dish and somehow combine it with the first RG6, just have one wire going into the splitter which would then support 16 tuners, not 8.

    Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance for all your help.
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    The much better solution is to replace your SWM LNB with a standard 5LNB slimline non-SWM LNB with 4 lines down. Then, you can connect the 4 lines to a 2-SWM chassis and 2 SWM modules, giving you the capacity for 16 tuners.

    If you want help getting this equipment ordered, you can contact us or see if DIRECTV will install the standard LNB. Then you can get the SWM equipment you need. I don't believe DIRECTV will sell/provide the SWM modules.

    This is a much cleaner setup than the two-dish solution, and it can be expanded nearly limitlessly if you need more than, say, 16 tuners.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by WK-Jeff View Post
      The much better solution is to replace your SWM LNB with a standard 5LNB slimline non-SWM LNB with 4 lines down. Then, you can connect the 4 lines to a 2-SWM chassis and 2 SWM modules, giving you the capacity for 16 tuners.

      If you want help getting this equipment ordered, you can contact us or see if DIRECTV will install the standard LNB. Then you can get the SWM equipment you need. I don't believe DIRECTV will sell/provide the SWM modules.

      This is a much cleaner setup than the two-dish solution, and it can be expanded nearly limitlessly if you need more than, say, 16 tuners.
      My problem with this is that I only have the capability to run 2 total cables from the satellite area into the house. Would a 5LNB slimline, with only 2 of the 4 lines down, be able give me 16 tuners off one dish? I'm sure I can get DirecTV to swap the LNBs out at no charge as they are willing to install the second dish at no charge.

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      • #4
        Nope - you'd need all four lines to make this work.
        Been here a long time . . .

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        • #5
          Originally posted by WK-Michael View Post
          Nope - you'd need all four lines to make this work.
          Ok last 2 questions

          1) What parts would I need to purchase for this setup to work (assuming I already have the 5lnb) from you guys?

          2) To elaborate on my previous posting, I can run 4 lines from the satellite into the attic, however, I am confined to the two lines already running through the attic to my central wiring box without knocking several holes in the walls to run the other two. So would it be possible to put some equipment in the attic and utilize these two lines and have *just* the swm splitter in my central wiring box? If that makes sense at all...

          Thanks again for educating me.

          edit: I do have a plug in my attic if I need to install a power inverter or two there.
          Last edited by Phasers; 03-24-2009, 09:08 PM.

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          • #6
            Assuming you have the proper LNB, then you need the SWM E2 plus two-SWM package, see:

            DIRECTV SWM Systems

            You will run the two lines from the attic to your closet (one line per SWM) and from the closet you will attach the splitters. You will need two 1x4 splitters in addition to the SWM package above. See also

            SWM Wiring Diagrams

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