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12-23-01, 08:12 PM
I currently have 4 E* receivers hooked up to a SW64 switch. I'm thinking about adding a 4th receiver. How do I hook up the 5th receiver since my SW64 switch is full?

I have 61.5, 110 and 119 as my dish locations.

12-23-01, 08:59 PM
Well I added a 2nd dish 500 looking at just 119 and 110. I had the dish and it was cheaper than the alternative of a second SW64, with splitters.

Now you could use a twin 500 dish, and power multiswitch the 61.5 dish and use a sw21 cascade for the 5th receiver if thats important to you.

Frankly I would like to get away from the 64 because its a single point failure that would bring down my whole system. Besides I have seen 64s create wierd problems. Mine that E just replaced under the system warranty had low signal strength at 110, even when I moved 110 to a different port.
110 at the dish was 105 at the receiver it was 76:( I relocated the dish, installed all new cables and after getting the same signal strength replaced the switch.


It also caused slow channel switching and once on ERs opening night caused a all channels flashing when E made a programnning change.

I am working to hopefully elminate my 64 perhaps when the 721 and new switch comes out. For now I will probably replace my twin with a quad and cable things so a 64 failure just requires some connector changes.