mitchd
02-24-03, 12:07 PM
Alright, so I'm hoping someone here can point me to some more information on DP switches. I tried to look for previous posts and I've scoured through groups.google and some dishnet faq sites but I'm not finding what I need. Feel free to slap me around and point me back to previous posts if I missed discussions on this...
I'm trying to run 2 IRDs off of my twin DP LNBF but I absolutely cannot drill holes to bring in another rg6. I've already got a 501 up and running.
I live in a townhouse apartment and they won't let me drill any holes or pull any new wires or anything like that, but I think I should be able to work with what I've got.
The apartments are laid out in rows of 6 or 8 connected units. Each set of connected units has 1 point on the back where rg6 coax and cat-5 phone come out. They agreed to let me anchor my dish in the brick mortar and mount a grounding block near the Point of Entry (for lack of a better term) for the existing rg6 inside wiring.
Anyway, so I've got rg6 coming into a splitter in my attic where rg6 runs go out to the other rooms. Like this, my 501 works fine. What I want to do, I think, is replace the splitter with a dp34 (dp344? I can't remember exactly) and let the outputs run to the other rooms (1 of the bedrooms and the living room) on the existing rg6.
Oh, and I'm only pointing to 110 and 119. No other birds.
This is where I'm stumped. I haven't been able to find very good docs on this switch, but most retailers have a decent description of what it is and what it does. If I read everything right, the DP Twin is already multiplexing (again, lack of a better term) the two birds onto 1 output to make sw21's unnecessary. Why, then, would I need to feed it multiple inputs?
I think I'm missing someting, because the way I'm understanding the DP LNB, all you need is one rg6 from it to some switches, cascade a few if you have to, and that's that. It can't be that easy, can it? Why would there be a DP Quad if it were?
Sorry for rambling; I do that often, but I would greatly appreciate anyone that can help me out here and point me toward what I need to make this work.
Mitch
I'm trying to run 2 IRDs off of my twin DP LNBF but I absolutely cannot drill holes to bring in another rg6. I've already got a 501 up and running.
I live in a townhouse apartment and they won't let me drill any holes or pull any new wires or anything like that, but I think I should be able to work with what I've got.
The apartments are laid out in rows of 6 or 8 connected units. Each set of connected units has 1 point on the back where rg6 coax and cat-5 phone come out. They agreed to let me anchor my dish in the brick mortar and mount a grounding block near the Point of Entry (for lack of a better term) for the existing rg6 inside wiring.
Anyway, so I've got rg6 coming into a splitter in my attic where rg6 runs go out to the other rooms. Like this, my 501 works fine. What I want to do, I think, is replace the splitter with a dp34 (dp344? I can't remember exactly) and let the outputs run to the other rooms (1 of the bedrooms and the living room) on the existing rg6.
Oh, and I'm only pointing to 110 and 119. No other birds.
This is where I'm stumped. I haven't been able to find very good docs on this switch, but most retailers have a decent description of what it is and what it does. If I read everything right, the DP Twin is already multiplexing (again, lack of a better term) the two birds onto 1 output to make sw21's unnecessary. Why, then, would I need to feed it multiple inputs?
I think I'm missing someting, because the way I'm understanding the DP LNB, all you need is one rg6 from it to some switches, cascade a few if you have to, and that's that. It can't be that easy, can it? Why would there be a DP Quad if it were?
Sorry for rambling; I do that often, but I would greatly appreciate anyone that can help me out here and point me toward what I need to make this work.
Mitch