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#1 ·
Folks,

As many of you know we have a great asset in "veryoldschool", or VOS for short. He's forgotten more about RF and connectivity than many of us will ever learn.

I'd like to start by thanking him for his immense service to this forum, and I'd like to start an official thread for the many questions you all have for him about connected home, whole home viewing, or anything DIRECTV related.

Please keep to topic and if you have a question, please read on to see if it's been answered.

Thanks!
 
#777 ·
texasbrit said:
Here's a question:
Went over to a friend's house last week, he has an HR44, a C41 and an HR24 running whole home through coax. His sister living in another building also has DirecTV, her own account and two HR24s running whole home through coax. Separate dishes. But they do share wireless internet. So how can they prevent whole home from one system seeing whole home in the other system - they have separate coax networks, but share a router and that "bridges" the two networks.
the only way around this is with a managed switch so that you can put the two SWM networks on different subnets. or jury-rig a two router network (not recommended)
 
#778 ·
texasbrit said:
Here's a question:
Went over to a friend's house last week, he has an HR44, a C41 and an HR24 running whole home through coax. His sister living in another building also has DirecTV, her own account and two HR24s running whole home through coax. Separate dishes. But they do share wireless internet. So how can they prevent whole home from one system seeing whole home in the other system - they have separate coax networks, but share a router and that "bridges" the two networks.
New wireless router have a guest network, which may be the easiest way to separate the two units.

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veryoldschool said:
New wireless router have a guest network, which may be the easiest way to separate the two units.

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Right on. I forgot about the "guest network" option.
 
#782 ·
veryoldschool said:
Guess we can't start calling you VOS jr yet, :lol:
those are some huge shoes to fill.... :righton:
 
#785 ·
veryoldschool said:
Don't think I had either until a couple of years ago.
Without a router having the option, you'd need to setup a different subnet, use a second router, or a managed switch as peds48 posted.

I got this just a few weeks ago: http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?p=WNR1000100NAS&ss=201944
How would you use a second router to do this? There's only one internet connection (FIOS) and the second router would have to have DHCP disabled, the primary router would be issuing the IP addresses...
 
#789 ·
I have three HR24s and one H24 If I am correct I can change my 5lnb that I don't need for a SWM 3lnb and connect it to a 4 way splitter. Connect a power insurter to the splitter then one line to each recever.
If I wanted to add a genie in place of a 24 then I would need a SWM 16? If so would there be more signal loss with the SWM16 than the one splitter setup?
 
#790 ·
PCampbell said:
I have three HR24s and one H24 If I am correct I can change my 5lnb that I don't need for a SWM 3lnb and connect it to a 4 way splitter. Correct

Connect a power insurter to the splitter then one line to each receiver. Correct

If I wanted to add a genie in place of a 24 then I would need a SWM 16? Correct

If so would there be more signal loss with the SWM16 than the one splitter setup? Unless the cable runs are extremely long, this should not be a concern.
 
#792 ·
This looks like the right thread.

I have a SWiM SL3S4NR2-02 with 1 coax line connected to a SWiM MSPLIT2R1-03 with 1 line connected to a PI21R-03 power inserter and 1 line out from the PI to a HR24.

To connect an HR44 would I just connect an RG6 cable to the unused port on the splitter directly to the HR44?

I'm guessing at that point I would have used 7 of the possible 8 tuners available in such a setup? I plan to eliminate the HR24 very soon but I wanted to be sure I was installing the HR44 correctly.

Thanks
 
#794 ·
keenan said:
This looks like the right thread.

I have a SWiM SL3S4NR2-02 with 1 coax line connected to a SWiM MSPLIT2R1-03 with 1 line connected to a PI21R-03 power inserter and 1 line out from the PI to a HR24.

To connect an HR44 would I just connect an RG6 cable to the unused port on the splitter directly to the HR44?

I'm guessing at that point I would have used 7 of the possible 8 tuners available in such a setup? I plan to eliminate the HR24 very soon but I wanted to be sure I was installing the HR44 correctly.

Thanks
Correct on all counts
 
#800 ·
This distance from the splitter would not affect menu navigation speed would it? I moved my HR24 about 50+ away from the splitter and after giving it a few days it seems much slower than I remembered. Granted, I'm getting very used to how crazy fast the HR44 is, but it still seems as it the HR24 has lost quite a bit of speed.
 
#801 ·
keenan said:
This distance from the splitter would not affect menu navigation speed would it? I moved my HR24 about 50+ away from the splitter and after giving it a few days it seems much slower than I remembered. Granted, I'm getting very used to how crazy fast the HR44 is, but it still seems as it the HR24 has lost quite a bit of speed.
Nope, the menus for the HR24 are local.
 
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