Need help installing 5 room with DVR

[cableguynomore]

Alright guys here it is. I have just left Comcast after 5 years and am about to lose my complimentary services :(. I want to transfer my existing setup to DirecTV. I have 5 rooms which are fed by one coax each. I need to know what it would take to hookup 4 of those rooms with SD boxes and the 5th with a dual tuned SD DVR. I know I’m going to need at least a 4x8 and a triple LNB. What would it take to go from the switch to the DVR and split it to feed both tuners? I hope I explained this well enough.

Thanks,

CGNM

[GeorgeLV]

You need a seperate line for a dvr--you can't just spilt it. You can also get a stacker/destacker, but it's expensive enough that you might as well switch to Dish instead and use their DishPro system.

[carl6]

So all of your existing coax runs go back to some common point. With a 4x8 or 5x8 multiswitch, you can feed one line to each of those 5 rooms, and everything, including one tuner in your dvr, will work just fine. To get the second tuner going in the dvr, you must run a second coax line from the multiswitch. As GeorgeLV noted, you can't use splitters.
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You will need to run all 4 lines from the dish to the multiswitch, and I will assume the multiswitch will be installed wherever your existing coax runs go back to.
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If your existing coax is not RG6, then you will probably want to replace it with RG6. RG59 does not work in many cases, especially longer runs.
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Carl