I've had a Terk 5x8 multiswitch for a long time that I tried to install once and didn't get it to work cause I didn't know you had to have 4 connections from the 3 LNB dish connected for it to work... Now that I have 3 HD boxes there wasn't enough bandwidth so I had to get it set up and found out about my shortcomings of the previous try, only problem is there are only 3 cables coming into the house from my dish. Everything seems to be working fine but I can't help but wonder what I'm missing! Can someone explain this to me? I have 2x 18v connections and 1x the 13v connection.
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You have to have that fourth line run from the dish connected to your 4x8 switch in order for it to work correctly. I'm surprised you didn't see times when a tuner couldn't find a channel.
Well there was a basic 2x4 multiswitch up there before with one line hooking up directly to somewhere in my house and it was all working great till I originally hooked up my 5x8 which than gave me searching for sat errors. I hooked up that 3rd direct line into the 18v this last run and viola. So ya it's working fine thus far.
It is really a moot point seeing you will need to upgrade to an AU9 dish and a WB68 switch to get the new HD channels coming next month, along with either H20 or HR20 MPEG4 receivers.
Regardless, if you need more than 4 lines for receivers, you will need four cables from the dish (AU9) into the 6x8 (WB68) multiswitch.
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