OK - photo of my install. How does 2nd room work?

[curiousmike]

I guess if one splitter is good, two is better. :)

Again, one coax comes into my 622 from the dish.
Another coax from the dish is run to my bedroom directly into the coax input on my 2nd TV (tuned to channel 70).

I don't know what it looks like *at* the dish.

http://www.coustier.com/dish1.jpg
http://www.coustier.com/dish3.jpg

[elbodude]

The "home distribution" coax from your 622 wil go to your TV COAX in. I think that is your question?

[yardbird]

Aren't you afraid of heating up your satellite receiver with teh xbox sitting on top of it?

[Stewart Vernon]

Your picture doesn't reflect the whole situation, since as you say you don't know what is at the dish...

My inside picture behind my ViP622 looks pretty much like yours.

Outside, where my DPP44 switch is... there is another splitter that divides the coax from the inside into two connections... one goes to the DPP44 switch for my satellite... and the other connects to a line that goes to another room in my house.

On your inside part, the "splitter" that goes to your satellite "in" connections is dividing the satellite into your dual-tuner connections... That other splitter (the red one in your picture) is diplexing the coax modulated output as a backfeed along the input from the satellite.

I realize that may or may not make sense... but that pretty much reflects the inside and outsides of my connection, and if yours is working I assume it must be the same.

[curiousmike]

elbo - my picture sucked. That "Home Distribution" coax simply runs back to on of the splitters... essentially back to the line that comes IN from the dish.

yardbird - you mean, am I afraid of the satellite receiver heating up my xbox ?
;)

[curiousmike]

That other splitter (the red one in your picture) is diplexing the coax modulated output as a backfeed along the input from the satellite.


OK. That was a mouthful.
But if I understand what you're saying, the co-ax IN is not a 1-way street -- and that red splitter allows the 622 to pump data back OUT -- and "essentially" goes back up and over the dish onto the other side of my house into the bedroom.

[ChuckA]

Right. And those are not "normal" splitters. The one feeding the single coax into the two tuners is a DPP Seperator designed for that purpose. The other is a diplexor designed to merge two signals into a single coax. These are always used in pairs. Somewhere back up the cable you will find another one that splits the signal out and feeds it to your TV2.

[Stewart Vernon]

OK. That was a mouthful.
But if I understand what you're saying, the co-ax IN is not a 1-way street -- and that red splitter allows the 622 to pump data back OUT -- and "essentially" goes back up and over the dish onto the other side of my house into the bedroom.

Right, except that it doesn't go back up and over your Dish... Somewhere else, probably outside at your house-connections area... there is the other diplexor I mentioned that would look just like that red one... and it would split back out the TV distribution signal and send it to your other room.

Part of why you were having trouble understanding what was happening is because you aren't seeing the entire setup. That's the "missing link" so to speak :)