Dish 625

[islandsaints]

I am finally upgrading my equipment, I have an older DVR right now. I was thinking of switching to DirecTV but they told me that I would need two lines coming in my home. Or at the guy who came here said, pointing at the cable jack 'see this, you need two things coming in here'.

So I am not too big on that idea, as I was told I would need to have a hole in my floor or, have a hole coming in an outside wall with a wire going across my ceiling where I can see it.

So for my questions, Dish said they can send me a new DVR that is a dual DVR but can be used on just one tv. She really could not tell me much about the install but thinks that means I would not need any new wiring. Is this correct, I would not need two 'things' so no new cable would need to be ran?

And second, if I decided that I did want this working on two tv's will this need two jacks?

I hope this makes some sense!
Thanks,
Tracy

 

[ncted]

I am finally upgrading my equipment, I have an older DVR right now. I was thinking of switching to DirecTV but they told me that I would need two lines coming in my home. Or at the guy who came here said, pointing at the cable jack 'see this, you need two things coming in here'.

So I am not too big on that idea, as I was told I would need to have a hole in my floor or, have a hole coming in an outside wall with a wire going across my ceiling where I can see it.

So for my questions, Dish said they can send me a new DVR that is a dual DVR but can be used on just one tv. She really could not tell me much about the install but thinks that means I would not need any new wiring. Is this correct, I would not need two 'things' so no new cable would need to be ran?

And second, if I decided that I did want this working on two tv's will this need two jacks?

I hope this makes some sense!
Thanks,
Tracy

Nope. Mine only has 1 jack. I back-feed the output to TV2 over the same cable using a diplexer. This only works easily if you have a star topology for your cabling. That is, all your cables route to a central place.

Ted

 

[islandsaints]

I usually know about most things but this is a little over my head. Will this be something that would be easy to do? And is there an way that I can easliy tell if all my cables route to a central place?
Thanks!
Tracy

 

[GNASH]

I usually know about most things but this is a little over my head. Will this be something that would be easy to do? And is there an way that I can easliy tell if all my cables route to a central place?
Thanks!
Tracy

I believe we actually need a little more information before any answers can be given. Do you currently have Dish Network???

If so, we need to know what type of Dish, Switches, and receivers you have. It IS possible to feed a dual tuner (like the 625 and 722) with a single Coax line using a satellite separator, but you do need a certain type of equipment outside (Dish Pro Plus I believe). To find this information, you would push menu, 6, 1, 3 and type what it says for equipment.

Geoff

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

Yes the new DVR will take the place of the old one and will work over a single cable, provided the cable you have now is RG6 grade and get a Dish Pro Plus LNB/Switch. The 2nd tuner can then be backfed to a 2nd tv in another room of the house. This line can come from the receiver, the dish, or pretty much anywhere - you just diplex it off the sat line where it best works. You would just need to get a line to the 2nd tv.

 

[Andrewwski]

If she even has a second TV...reading the first post it says "one TV."

Which would be very easy. I hate dual mode anyway.

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

And second, if I decided that I did want this working on two tv's will this need two jacks?


Tracy

He was asking about hooking up tv2 with just one cable which you can do.

 

[GNASH]

And second, if I decided that I did want this working on two tv's will this need two jacks?

For TV2, you would need a coax going from the receiver to the 2nd TV. You will not need a second cable as there will only be a feed from the receiver to the TV, rather than from the Dish to the Receiver.

Geoff

 

[Andrewwski]

Not necessarily.

If you don't have a coax going from the receiver to TV2, but you have the coax for TV1 and TV2 going to the same place, you can backfeed through the TV1 line using diplexers.

 

[WiCkeDuDe]

Not necessarily.

If you don't have a coax going from the receiver to TV2, but you have the coax for TV1 and TV2 going to the same place, you can backfeed through the TV1 line using diplexers.

Which is what I said before.

 

[Andrewwski]

Whoops...yes it is.

 

[WiCkeDuDe]