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I have never used a SWM yet, so I have some questions please.
I have a customer that lives in a condo. They have 1 standard receiver installed. They want to upgrade to HD, and swap the standard for an HD receiver, and add an additional HD box. Here's what I found when I went out there.
An 18x20 dish on a pole in the back shared by 3 units. 3 lines coming off the dish going to 3 different units (there is only 1 wire originally going to each unit, run underground), each of the 3 satellite wires is diplexed outside with their association provided cable, and inside each condo garage (inside a wall plate), the other diplexer sends the sat signal to 1 TV, and cable to the other 2 outlets.
I told him there was no way to do what he wanted with the traditional ka/ku LNB. It is not an option to run additional wires to the unit's homerun, or run them outside.
My question is, would the SWM8 or SWMline work better in this situation?
If I change the shared 18x20 dish with either setup above, would the other 2 units run like the old setup with the sat and cable diplexed before it goes to each unit?
It would have to be split 3 ways outside to go to each of 3 units, and split again 2 ways inside his unit, is that possible?
Could the power inserter go in his garage or inside his condo somewhere, and power the switch (or LNB) for all of them?
I have a customer that lives in a condo. They have 1 standard receiver installed. They want to upgrade to HD, and swap the standard for an HD receiver, and add an additional HD box. Here's what I found when I went out there.
An 18x20 dish on a pole in the back shared by 3 units. 3 lines coming off the dish going to 3 different units (there is only 1 wire originally going to each unit, run underground), each of the 3 satellite wires is diplexed outside with their association provided cable, and inside each condo garage (inside a wall plate), the other diplexer sends the sat signal to 1 TV, and cable to the other 2 outlets.
I told him there was no way to do what he wanted with the traditional ka/ku LNB. It is not an option to run additional wires to the unit's homerun, or run them outside.
My question is, would the SWM8 or SWMline work better in this situation?
If I change the shared 18x20 dish with either setup above, would the other 2 units run like the old setup with the sat and cable diplexed before it goes to each unit?
It would have to be split 3 ways outside to go to each of 3 units, and split again 2 ways inside his unit, is that possible?
Could the power inserter go in his garage or inside his condo somewhere, and power the switch (or LNB) for all of them?
