DIRECTV has made networking even easier with the DIRECTV Wireless Digital Cinema Connection kit! This one device will work with SWiM and legacy systems, and can be configured right from the receiver!
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That's what I thought, but I think there has been some confusion regarding that and the Wireless Cinema Connection Kit, which is really the Broadband DECA Adapter (or the original topic of this entire thread). That's what happens when DirecTV decides to call different items by the same/similar names.
@rwmair:
What you are ordering is most likely just a wireless ethernet adapter and will have nothing to do with DECA/MRV. It is to be used on one receiver. The upside is that what you ordered from DirecTV will be able to be configured by the receiver that you connect it to via its ethernet cable.
That's what I thought, but I think there has been some confusion regarding that and the Wireless Cinema Connection Kit, which is really the Broadband DECA Adapter (or the original topic of this entire thread). That's what happens when DirecTV decides to call different items by the same/similar names.
@rwmair:
What you are ordering is most likely just a wireless ethernet adapter and will have nothing to do with DECA/MRV. It is to be used on one receiver. The upside is that what you ordered from DirecTV will be able to be configured by the receiver that you connect it to via its ethernet cable.
Thanks for the advice, but I just went back in my DirecTV account. After placing the wDCCK in my shopping cart ($80 plus $5 tax, but no shipping) I followed the links for "help with self-installation" That took me to a link that downloaded the "Wifi-Deca/Connection-kit" install manual. This has two coax ports and a ethernet port - and appears to be the same device as on page 1 of this thread.
Well, I ordered it, so I guess I'll figure it out when it arrives. I had no idea there was so much confusion on the names of these devices.
I don't think DirecTV sells the old WiFi adapters anymore. It's the wired or wireless DECA only on their sites now.
I'm sorry to mislead you on the price. I really thought that price was for everyone, not just people with Whole Home DVR. I guess I learned something new.
I don't think DirecTV sells the old WiFi adapters anymore. It's the wired or wireless DECA only on their sites now.
I'm sorry to mislead you on the price. I really thought that price was for everyone, not just people with Whole Home DVR. I guess I learned something new.
Well, I've received it now, and I did indeed receive a wifi-DECA/wDCCK as shown at the start of this thread. Coax connections to use if I had WHDVR, which I don't, so I just hooked up the ethernet.
Install was pretty easy. Now if only the damn thing would stay connected to the internet!
I just moved and had a DTV tech come out to hook up my service, which was a transfer, anyway I ran into a snag, I have TWC internet and only one coax outlet in my office! It was going to be a pita to get a second one installed so I just ran a coax cable from an adjacent room but that isn't going to work long term. Will the $25 adaptor work in my situation?
I just moved and had a DTV tech come out to hook up my service, which was a transfer, anyway I ran into a snag, I have TWC internet and only one coax outlet in my office! It was going to be a pita to get a second one installed so I just ran a coax cable from an adjacent room but that isn't going to work long term. Will the $25 adaptor work in my situation?
In your two posts, you haven't given enough info to give a good answer.
If a receiver doesn't have a DECA internally, then to be part of the DECA network, they'll each need a white DECA.
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