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dnau12
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Jul 10, 2007, 2:56 PM

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I had a fire at my house and the sheetrock is now off the walls. I want to upgrade to high def. once the house is ready and now is a good time to run all wiring between the walls. My questions is how many cables will I need to run from the new 5 LNB dish (which cannot be mounted yet) to my HD+HD DVR receiver? I want to run the cables now and have them come out and mount the dish when the house is ready. Any help would be appreciated.
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TANK1
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Jul 10, 2007, 4:24 PM

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Each Hd dvr needs two coax cables and the other receivers ( hd or sd ) each need one. They must be rg6 and for Hd you need compression connectors on the ends . Use good coax with solid copper conductor
https://www.tselectronic.com/...93dd2f976487804fba06
There are 4 coax cables off the 5 lnb sat dish, so you need 2- HD Dvr and 1 for hd receiver, so you have 1 left over. I would the a 2nd coax to location of the hd receiver in case you ever want upgrade to a 2nd HD DVR the cable is there.

If you don't want to mess with compression connectors, just leave cable bare and let the installer do the compression connectors.

I'm not a big fan of wall plates because that is just one more connection (a weak point, possible problem ) instead of pure run of cable from the dish.

dnau12
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Jul 10, 2007, 10:00 PM

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Tank1,

Thanks for the reply. Just so I understand. I plan to put an HR20 in the main viewing room. I plan to put an H20 (maybe later an HR20) in the den. In addition, I have an old standard definition tivo that I plan to put in a 3rd room. I should be able to run all of these off of the single 5 LNB dish correct? I would run all 4 cables leading from the dish to the multi switch in the main room. From the multi switch outputs I would run 2 cables to the main room HR20, 2 cables to the den for the H20 or later HR20 and 2 to the 3rd room tivo correct?
Thanks for your help.

TANK1
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Jul 11, 2007, 9:01 AM

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You would need 2 for the HD DVR in the living room and 2 in the den ( 1 for the HD receiver and the second if you upgrade to a HD Dvr later ) and 2 more SD DVR in the 3rd room.

So you would need 6 runs of coax so need a Zinwell WB68 Wide Band 6x8 Multi-Switch

http://www.2000networks.com/...inwell_wb68_6x8.html

You run the 4 coax cables from the 5 lnb sat dish and connect them to the multi-switch. Then you run the 6 coax cables out from the multi-switch to the different rooms.
You must use a multi switch that will work with the new 5 lnb sat dish, like the one in the link.

I would put the multi-switch inside , it just avoids any problems of moisture from rain /snow/ice on the connectors and multi switch. You could put it in a garage/basement /under the house etc

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