My current setup is two dishes connected to two vip622's and two vip211's. I am looking at replacing this setup with a two hopper and 2 or 3 joey setup. My question is about the MOCA connection as I do not have functioning CATV wiring in my unit. Can hoppers and joeys still be installed and connected another way?
Hopper/Joey Cabling Question
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Your 622 and the TV2 connected to it and the 211 all have their own coax cable run from the dish or a switch, if you have one in your installation. The dish would connect to a node and from the node there is 1 coax that runs to the Hopper and on the other side of the node you have your client outputs. I'm sure the tech could run a line from the client output and connect that line via a splitter to your other rooms using the existing lines that are there for your VIP equipment and those lines would feed the Joey. I think thats what you were asking, but correct me if i'm wrong.
I think that's what I'm asking. The attached sketch shows how the existing setup is wired. There is no switch as several years ago, for whatever reason, a tech removed the switch and just installed a second dish.
I somehow overlooked that you had 2 of each model. Do you have 6 TVS connected in total? Why do you have 2 dishes? Are you using EA and WA or international programming?
Currently have 5 TVs. Both vip622's are operating in single mode serving 1 TV each. There are 2 TVs connecting to one vip211 with an HDMI splitter and this is where I am thinking of using two Joey's so they can watch separate channels and there is a 5th TV connected to a vip211 by itself. As for the 2 dishes, that is just what one tech did on a service call when I added one of the receivers. With the 4 boxes and the one dish using a switch he was having problems getting a good signal at all the boxes so he got rid of the switch and just installed a second dish. All programming is WA.
