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I am trying to help a friend use his DTV coax to distribute internet to a part of his house that isn't getting wifi reception- He wants an Ethernet connection for xbox in the basement where he has an hr24 receiver.
I see 2 wires coming in from the dish into a basement utility room. One goes into a 4 way swm splitter right there and the other dish wire goes up into a wall where I cannot see what happens. He has 8 Receivers some HR24's and some HR22s and he has MRV activated and it works. Since he has 8 receivers, I assume that the second dish wire runs to a swm splitter in the attic which feeds the upstairs TV's. His FIOS router is located next to one of his HR22 receivers on the main floor. If we plug the receiver directly into the router he obviously gets internet. If we add a DECA adapter to that receiver and plug the deca into the receiver and router he also gets internet at that receiver. I thought that by using the deca there that the internet would now get into the coax for use elsewhere, but when I checked at the basement Receiver there was no internet. and when I added a deca there-- even though the receiver has it built in, the green lights on the DECA did not light up and no internet connectivity appears . I thought that by using a deca there I could take the internet off the deca and use it for the xbox. Apparently not.
Question is, how do I get the router's internet onto more than that one receiver? DO I need another sem splitter right there? If there are, as I think, 2 SWM 4 way splitters off of the dish, will the internet only show up on the receivers that attach to the same splitter or does it somehow get to all 8 receivers? Without access to the assumed second SWM 4 way splitter in the attic is there a way to get this done? If the Receiver where the router is and the basement receiver come off of the same 4 way sem splitter from the dish, will that be enough to get the internet to the xbox?
My setup at home is a SWM 16 with a deca adapter and power supply and router all right next to each other so it works easily and flawlessly-- his setup isn't so simple.
Thanks for your help . .
Thanks for your help . . .
I see 2 wires coming in from the dish into a basement utility room. One goes into a 4 way swm splitter right there and the other dish wire goes up into a wall where I cannot see what happens. He has 8 Receivers some HR24's and some HR22s and he has MRV activated and it works. Since he has 8 receivers, I assume that the second dish wire runs to a swm splitter in the attic which feeds the upstairs TV's. His FIOS router is located next to one of his HR22 receivers on the main floor. If we plug the receiver directly into the router he obviously gets internet. If we add a DECA adapter to that receiver and plug the deca into the receiver and router he also gets internet at that receiver. I thought that by using the deca there that the internet would now get into the coax for use elsewhere, but when I checked at the basement Receiver there was no internet. and when I added a deca there-- even though the receiver has it built in, the green lights on the DECA did not light up and no internet connectivity appears . I thought that by using a deca there I could take the internet off the deca and use it for the xbox. Apparently not.
Question is, how do I get the router's internet onto more than that one receiver? DO I need another sem splitter right there? If there are, as I think, 2 SWM 4 way splitters off of the dish, will the internet only show up on the receivers that attach to the same splitter or does it somehow get to all 8 receivers? Without access to the assumed second SWM 4 way splitter in the attic is there a way to get this done? If the Receiver where the router is and the basement receiver come off of the same 4 way sem splitter from the dish, will that be enough to get the internet to the xbox?
My setup at home is a SWM 16 with a deca adapter and power supply and router all right next to each other so it works easily and flawlessly-- his setup isn't so simple.
Thanks for your help . .
Thanks for your help . . .
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