I bought a two story home with coax in every room, with one cable to each room.
When we moved in, I hired a crew to help me wire the main floor exactly how I wanted it - hidden wires, hidden dish - a new 4 LNB HD dish was put in, and I ran 2 new cables to the Living Room and Family Room to accommodate 2 DVRs. Since one is older SD DVR, I had them install a Zinwell 6x8, and I didn't bother with WholeHome or look into SWM. At the time, I still had my original Hughes Gold receiver that I used upstairs with one cable just fine, not great, but good enough for free.
Then, a friend of ours got married, and his new wife preferred ComCast. He gave us his fully owned HD-DVR with 2 sat in. This is one of the earliest HD models, and it requires B band converters (we have 2 of these). So, it's setup, authorized with DTV, works fine, but I can only use the one receiver with the single cable in the upstairs room.
I would like to use the 2nd receiver, but it's not worth pulling cable to the second floor. I did attempt to follow the cable with fish tape, but it's not a straight run. It would be a big effort, or at least somewhat costly, and I wouldn't use it enough to justify it.
But, I thought it might be worth a few dollars to get the Zinwell MS2X4RO-03 2x4 Multi-Switch. I thought I could disconnect one LNB cable in the basement from the 6x8, couple it to the upstairs single cable, and install this 2x4 in the room behind the older model HD-DVR.
But, I don't know if a 2x4 might require 2 inputs to work, and I can't tell if this multi-switch model will work with HD transmission.
Has anyone tried this kind of setup with any success? If so, what equipment did you use?
When we moved in, I hired a crew to help me wire the main floor exactly how I wanted it - hidden wires, hidden dish - a new 4 LNB HD dish was put in, and I ran 2 new cables to the Living Room and Family Room to accommodate 2 DVRs. Since one is older SD DVR, I had them install a Zinwell 6x8, and I didn't bother with WholeHome or look into SWM. At the time, I still had my original Hughes Gold receiver that I used upstairs with one cable just fine, not great, but good enough for free.
Then, a friend of ours got married, and his new wife preferred ComCast. He gave us his fully owned HD-DVR with 2 sat in. This is one of the earliest HD models, and it requires B band converters (we have 2 of these). So, it's setup, authorized with DTV, works fine, but I can only use the one receiver with the single cable in the upstairs room.
I would like to use the 2nd receiver, but it's not worth pulling cable to the second floor. I did attempt to follow the cable with fish tape, but it's not a straight run. It would be a big effort, or at least somewhat costly, and I wouldn't use it enough to justify it.
But, I thought it might be worth a few dollars to get the Zinwell MS2X4RO-03 2x4 Multi-Switch. I thought I could disconnect one LNB cable in the basement from the 6x8, couple it to the upstairs single cable, and install this 2x4 in the room behind the older model HD-DVR.
But, I don't know if a 2x4 might require 2 inputs to work, and I can't tell if this multi-switch model will work with HD transmission.
Has anyone tried this kind of setup with any success? If so, what equipment did you use?
