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DBSTalk Exclusive First Look: SWiM-16 Single Wire Multiswitch

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Are you the sort of person who just can't have enough receivers? DBSTalk.com is proud to present this exclusive first look at the next new piece in DIRECTV's technology arsenal: The SWiM-16 Single Wire Multiswitch.

If you need up to 16 tuners, you can now wire all of them with a single wire to each receiver without chaining smaller multiswitches. This should make for easier, less expensive installations.

I'd like to thank Doug Brott for this entertaining and informative look at the SWiM-16.

SWiM-16 First Look

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Super sweet that is has 4 legacy ports for a 6x8!!

DirecTV is kinda like Apple. I just bought a SWM8 and now I feel lame for owning it because they just came out with something cooler.
 
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Alan Gordon said:
AWESOME!

I haven't even maxed out my SWM8 and I'm wishing I had one of these bad boys! :D

~Alan
I haven't even hooked mine up yet!

Any ideas on price yet?
 
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Tom Robertson said:
Alas, no word on availability or pricing yet.

Soon is all I can guess. :)
Thanks Tom!!!

SWM16 ODU anyone??? I just wired my new house with the single wire to the dish and I don't want to wire for four wires from the dish but I know I will if I HAVE to. But that's why I ask about an ODU. :grin:

But I am HAPPY to see the SWM16 and then there was that SWM32 at CES floor :D
 
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webby_s said:
Thanks Tom!!!

SWM16 ODU anyone??? I just wired my new house with the single wire to the dish and I don't want to wire for four wires from the dish but I know I will if I HAVE to. But that's why I ask about an ODU. :grin:

But I am HAPPY to see the SWM16 and then there was that SWM32 at CES floor :D
I wonder if you could use a 1x2 splitter for two 1x8s for a situation like this and just connect them to SWM1 through a PI. Do we know yet?
 
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matt1124 said:
I wonder if you could use a 1x2 splitter for two 1x8s for a situation like this and just connect them to SWM1 through a PI. Do we know yet?
No. The SWiM LNB can only do 8 tuners. You could use a 1x100 splitter (if such a beast existed) but you would only still have 8 tuners.

I see no real reason why a LNB couldn't support 16 or even 32 tuners. A 16 tuner version would probably have 2 drops, while a 32 would go back to 4.
 
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matt1124 said:
I wonder if you could use a 1x2 splitter for two 1x8s for a situation like this and just connect them to SWM1 through a PI. Do we know yet?
:confused:
Sorry just a little confused by your question. I have a SWM8 Outdoor Unit (ODU) or a SWMLine Dish (5 LNB to be specific) and obviously one wire comes off of that to the Power Inserter (like you have knowledge of) and then I have a 4 way splitter to 4 receivers (3 DVR's 1 STB) for a total of 7 tuners.

While I am not immediately needing the 9th or more tuner I can see I may need it when my kids are grown. I am just wondering if I could get that SWM16 ODU.

There is no way one can split the SWM ODU to a multiswitch or SWM8 or in this case a SWM16. They don't "talk" to a SWM Multiswitch (4 lines in) that I know of.
 
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I meant if you stuck a new SWM-16 outside with a non SWM dish and sent only one wire inside. Inside would be a PI, then split into two, then split into 8 each.

I don't know. My SWM-8 lets me just run one line from outside then have an 8 output on the end of it in my connections area.

I guess what I am curious about is if all 16 tuners can be pulled from SWM1 port or 8 SWM1 and 8 from SWM2.
 
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matt1124 said:
I meant if you stuck a new SWM-16 outside with a non SWM dish and sent only one wire inside. Inside would be a PI, then split into two, then split into 8 each.

I don't know. My SWM-8 lets me just run one line from outside then have an 8 output on the end of it in my connections area.

I guess what I am curious about is if all 16 tuners can be pulled from SWM1 port or 8 SWM1 and 8 from SWM2.
No .. 8 tuners from SWiM 1 and 8 tuners from SWiM 2
 
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