Wiring basement for future connections...

[dcanesdbs]

Hello,

I am in the process of finishing my basement and looking to pre wire the rooms with R6 wire for Directv connections and cable. Currently upstairs I have 2 tv's with 2 connections DVR, 1 connection to 1 tv and another to the other. In summary I have 6 connections out of 8 used on my Zinwell wb68. I have 2 available. I want to run 2 to the game room, 1 to the bar, 1 to the office and 1 to the gym. So in total, I want to add 5 new satelite R6 runs. I can hook 2 that are left to the existing wb68. What do I need for the other 3? Also, do these lines need to go straight to the wb68 or can a splitter be used? Also, can the cables/connections to the tv's use a wall plate?

Any help, information on this is appreciated!

[Michael D'Angelo]

The lines going to the receiver need to come from the WB68 (no splitters).

You can either replace the WB68 with a Zinwell WB616 and that would give you 16 outputs or you can get a 2nd WB68 and run both in a parallel setup. You would split the 4 lines from the dish using 4 dual power passing splitter 5MHz or 2300MHz. Then from each splitter make sure the 2 lines are going to the same input on both multi-switches. If you do the parallel setup and the cable runs are long you may want to get one of these http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?prod=HRPID1422. It would go before the splitters.

Yes you can use wall plates.

[carl6]

If you are not going to have all of those locations active at the same time, you only need to connect the active lines, and leave the in-active lines disconnected. Then you can disconnect/connect as needed when you move equipment around.

However, if your total active count will exceed 8 at any given time, then you still have the need for the larger multiswitch or parallel WB68's.

Note that the splitters that BMoreRavens referred to are to split the coax from the dish to feed two parallel multiswitches. You cannot split the cable that runs from the output of the multiswitch to the receiver or dvr.

Carl

[dcanesdbs]

Excellent! Thanks!