mgoblue99
01-29-08, 12:24 PM
Hi. Several weeks ago, my D* installer came out to install my dish. I'm in a multi-unit building, and the dish was installed on the roof of the buliding, and the wiring was passed-through to the electrical rooms which are located on every floor of the building. Each of my rooms with cable has two cable jacks per room (two jacks, one right below the other, on the same plate). Since I'm wired in 3 rooms, I have 6 cable wires leading from the electrical room into my unit.
Initially, the plan was to keep basic cable on one of the jacks and use the other for D*. Two of my rooms were getting HD-DVRs, and one was getting a standard receiver. In the rooms with the HR-21s, the installer tried to diplex the satellite signal coming out of the satellite jack, and then use two wires out of the diplexer to connect to the HR-21s. This configuration was ideal becasue it let me keep my cable, which offers certain channels I can't get on D* and serves as a backup in the event D* goes out.
When the installer left, I noticed I was having problems getting certain channels on the HR-21s, and when he came back to look, he told me it was likely becasue there was interference from the basic cable, because the two wires were carrying channels on the same frequencies. (I admit that I'm not knowledgeable as to the technical x's and o's.) He told me that I'd have to give up the idea of having the basic cable in the rooms with the HR-21s, and once he reconfigured it, I had no more D* problems.
My question is: Does anyone know how I can work this to keep cable and my HR-21s in the same rooms without running an additional wire? I've heard talk of single-wire multi-switches...would this do the trick? If so, would I need one per room or a single one in the electrical room feeding it into my unit?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!
Initially, the plan was to keep basic cable on one of the jacks and use the other for D*. Two of my rooms were getting HD-DVRs, and one was getting a standard receiver. In the rooms with the HR-21s, the installer tried to diplex the satellite signal coming out of the satellite jack, and then use two wires out of the diplexer to connect to the HR-21s. This configuration was ideal becasue it let me keep my cable, which offers certain channels I can't get on D* and serves as a backup in the event D* goes out.
When the installer left, I noticed I was having problems getting certain channels on the HR-21s, and when he came back to look, he told me it was likely becasue there was interference from the basic cable, because the two wires were carrying channels on the same frequencies. (I admit that I'm not knowledgeable as to the technical x's and o's.) He told me that I'd have to give up the idea of having the basic cable in the rooms with the HR-21s, and once he reconfigured it, I had no more D* problems.
My question is: Does anyone know how I can work this to keep cable and my HR-21s in the same rooms without running an additional wire? I've heard talk of single-wire multi-switches...would this do the trick? If so, would I need one per room or a single one in the electrical room feeding it into my unit?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks!