Connecting 3rd dual receiver

[ErocFury]

Sorry if this sounds stupid, but Newbie here. I just had a 4 room dish network system installed recently. I currently have 2 dual receivers, one 322 and one 625 connected from 2 lines coming into the house from the dish. Both are connected in dual mode through SW21 switches, so I am currently running 4 TV's from the 2 receivers. I've been reading through the posts here all day, and I am still a little confused.

What I would like to do is purchase an additional 322 receiver, and run it in dual mode in order to run my 5th and 6th TV's. I am not 100% sure what switch I need. I have read that it is the DPP44, and I have also seen some posts suggesting the use of the DP34 switch, but I like to know for sure which switch I need to purchase.

I would also appreciate it if anyone has a diagram or schematic of what my final wiring connection should be (if it can be explained in simple terms then that's cool as well), and are there any configuration settings that need to happen once I'm connected, other than activation of the new receiver.

I've tried Dish CS for these answers, but they were of little help.

Thanks, any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Fredinva]

If your dish is looking at 110, 119 - consider a dish 1000.2
(all switches built into LNBs)

It will handle 3 twin tuners(one rg6 to each box), and you'll be ready for HD on 129

fred

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

Your receivers are not connected using SW21 switches. SW21's are legacy equipement and not what you have.

Its called a DPP seperator and only works with Dish Pro Plus technology. In order to add a 3rd receiver you would need to add a DPP44 or upgrade to a Dish 1000.2.

The 1000.2 would be cheaper and can run 6 tuners with 3 lines entering the house. You would also be ready for HD programming. Also can have 4 orbitals.

A DPP44 could run 8 tuners but can act funny with DPP twins which you have now. They seem to wear out and fail the DPP twins. They also require a power inserter.

A DP34 is a bad idea. You would need 2 of them to run 3 dual tuners. DP34 are not DPP switches and cannot use the seperator, thus you need 2 lines to each dual tuner. Thats 6 lines going into your house. A DP34 only provides 4 lines each.

I would go with the 1000.2.

 

[ErocFury]

Cool....thank you both. I had not explored the option of upgrading the dish.

Thanks for the help.

 

[ErocFury]

Do I need to purchase the entire dish or can just replace my twin LNBF with a Dish Pro Plus Integrated 1000.2 LNBF?

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

No its a whole different dish. Bigger and a different bracket for the integrated lnb.