Hopefully I can make this make sense.
First, let me confess: I let Comcast talk me into switching from Dish to Xfinity. I did not cancel Dish because I wanted to see how I liked Xfinity (X). Three days later and the X equipment is piled up by the door and going back. The problem is: I'm not sure how to reconnect the Dish equipment. I think X may have removed something outside (possibly grounding blocks or diplexers) to make room for their box.
My original Dish setup - 5 tvs.
VIP722K at TV1 in the den and running TV2 in master bed.
VIP222K at TV1 in son's room and running TV2 in guest room.
VIP211K at TV in front room
3 lines coming from Dish array and connected to grounding blocks.
Coax all over the house.
Anyway, I disconnected X's setup and pulled their box off the house. 2 grounding blocks were still there for the Dish setup. The 3 lines from the dish were still connected to them and each block had a short piece of coax hanging from it.
To start with, I connected cable for the 22K - No problem.
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I have a double coax (I think it was left over from an old DirecTV setup from the previous owner and Dish just used one of the cables on it for the 722K, maybe left the other just dangling, not really sure.
The 722K still had the triplexer attached so I left that alone and connected the cable that X used (from the dual coax), connected the other end to the grounding block outside and TV1 is fine.
Same thing with the 222K to son's TV.
I have cable still hanging outside that goes to master bedroom and guest room but nothing to connect them to out there. I'm pretty sure the short jumpers left danging from the grounding blocks are needed somehow. Thinking I may need them, I have two 5MHz-2.3GHz Ideal diplexers purchased from Lowe's.
How would I go about getting the other 2 TVs reconnected?
First, let me confess: I let Comcast talk me into switching from Dish to Xfinity. I did not cancel Dish because I wanted to see how I liked Xfinity (X). Three days later and the X equipment is piled up by the door and going back. The problem is: I'm not sure how to reconnect the Dish equipment. I think X may have removed something outside (possibly grounding blocks or diplexers) to make room for their box.
My original Dish setup - 5 tvs.
VIP722K at TV1 in the den and running TV2 in master bed.
VIP222K at TV1 in son's room and running TV2 in guest room.
VIP211K at TV in front room
3 lines coming from Dish array and connected to grounding blocks.
Coax all over the house.
Anyway, I disconnected X's setup and pulled their box off the house. 2 grounding blocks were still there for the Dish setup. The 3 lines from the dish were still connected to them and each block had a short piece of coax hanging from it.
To start with, I connected cable for the 22K - No problem.
.
I have a double coax (I think it was left over from an old DirecTV setup from the previous owner and Dish just used one of the cables on it for the 722K, maybe left the other just dangling, not really sure.
The 722K still had the triplexer attached so I left that alone and connected the cable that X used (from the dual coax), connected the other end to the grounding block outside and TV1 is fine.
Same thing with the 222K to son's TV.
I have cable still hanging outside that goes to master bedroom and guest room but nothing to connect them to out there. I'm pretty sure the short jumpers left danging from the grounding blocks are needed somehow. Thinking I may need them, I have two 5MHz-2.3GHz Ideal diplexers purchased from Lowe's.
How would I go about getting the other 2 TVs reconnected?
See if they can arrange it so that the service call is covered by a tech. I wouldn't call what you did foolish, at some time most of us have changed a service and realized it was a mistake. I got TMobile data for my Tablet when I have had At&T for phones since before they were even Cingular, and realized there's a reason Tmobile data looks like a better plan. Try getting fast speeds with them... I added AT&T data and learned my lesson.
