I recently tried to add an old TIVO receiver to one of our rooms and am having issues. I have another old tivo up and running, and I have and HD-DVR downstairs.
When I go through the setup it fails acquiring info. My locals do not show up and I get about half the channels. I went through satellite setup and changed the zip code and what not because it was from a different location. In the signal strength, every other channel is 0, and the ones the have strength are 94-98.
I called directv and their solution was to send out another box, but I don't think that is the problem. If I try to make a call with the box, it fails saying phone is busy. WHen I do a system it fails to detect all three satellites. Any other suggestions? I know that the cable is fine, because the other tivo was in this room previously.
The Tivo is a Samsung Series 2 SIR-S4120R.
Okay so say I have room 1 and room 2. Room 2 had the first tivo, everything worked fine. I moved the first tivo to room 1 everything worked fine. Tivo 2 went into room 2, and I have problems. So I moved tivo 2 to room 1, viola, everything works fine.
Up in the attic, the cable comes up from the multiswitch, and then there is a splitter there that feeds into the three rooms. Room 2 is the longest run, I would say maybe 25 feet. Could that cause the degradation in the signal, even though tivo 1 works there. I am trying tivo 1 back in room 2 with tivo 2 attached in room 1 to see if it works.
And it doesn't. So if I have one tivo hooked up upstairs to room 2 I am fine. But if I put a tivo in room 1, room 2 craps out. So what is the cabling solution to fix this? Run a separate cable directly from the multiswitch? It's a long run, probably about 60 feet or so. Is that something I can or want to do myself?
When I go through the setup it fails acquiring info. My locals do not show up and I get about half the channels. I went through satellite setup and changed the zip code and what not because it was from a different location. In the signal strength, every other channel is 0, and the ones the have strength are 94-98.
I called directv and their solution was to send out another box, but I don't think that is the problem. If I try to make a call with the box, it fails saying phone is busy. WHen I do a system it fails to detect all three satellites. Any other suggestions? I know that the cable is fine, because the other tivo was in this room previously.
The Tivo is a Samsung Series 2 SIR-S4120R.
Okay so say I have room 1 and room 2. Room 2 had the first tivo, everything worked fine. I moved the first tivo to room 1 everything worked fine. Tivo 2 went into room 2, and I have problems. So I moved tivo 2 to room 1, viola, everything works fine.
Up in the attic, the cable comes up from the multiswitch, and then there is a splitter there that feeds into the three rooms. Room 2 is the longest run, I would say maybe 25 feet. Could that cause the degradation in the signal, even though tivo 1 works there. I am trying tivo 1 back in room 2 with tivo 2 attached in room 1 to see if it works.
And it doesn't. So if I have one tivo hooked up upstairs to room 2 I am fine. But if I put a tivo in room 1, room 2 craps out. So what is the cabling solution to fix this? Run a separate cable directly from the multiswitch? It's a long run, probably about 60 feet or so. Is that something I can or want to do myself?
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