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I have 8 DirecTV DVRs. They are set up on a SWM16.
On one of my DVRs tuner #2 Fails to work on two satellites. The rest of them work fine.
Here's the kicker. I started moving coax around, trying to isolate the problem and ruled out the coax being at fault. Taking a proper working set of coax and plugging it into my trouble DVR yields no positive results on the trouble DVR and no negative results on the working DVR.
I unplugged the SWM coax, and removed power from all DVRs. I plugged them in a different order, and lo' and behold, the trouble was on a different DVR.
My conjecture is, and I have no knowledge other than what I started to read on these and other message boards this morning, that the problem is that the SWM16 assigns some sort of address or socket to each device as they come online. One of these addresses/sockets is not providing the signal needed for the second tuner.
Does anyone with more experience have anything to add, or to correct my logic?
Thanks!
Connor
On one of my DVRs tuner #2 Fails to work on two satellites. The rest of them work fine.
Here's the kicker. I started moving coax around, trying to isolate the problem and ruled out the coax being at fault. Taking a proper working set of coax and plugging it into my trouble DVR yields no positive results on the trouble DVR and no negative results on the working DVR.
I unplugged the SWM coax, and removed power from all DVRs. I plugged them in a different order, and lo' and behold, the trouble was on a different DVR.
My conjecture is, and I have no knowledge other than what I started to read on these and other message boards this morning, that the problem is that the SWM16 assigns some sort of address or socket to each device as they come online. One of these addresses/sockets is not providing the signal needed for the second tuner.
Does anyone with more experience have anything to add, or to correct my logic?
Thanks!
Connor
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