Question about cabling and signal distribution

[pookah]

Need some advice. Dish 1000.4, about 50ft of cables to 3 cascaded DPP44 switches. Now I need to run a cable to a completely opposite side of the building and the only starting point that makes sense is the dish or the first 10 ft of cable. What would be the most logical and practical way to cut into the cables to split the signal without loss?

 

[boba]

You can't split a signal with out loss. Please explain your complete setup. Why do you need 3 cascaded DPP44 switches?

 

[harshness]

50 feet of quality cable is not something to lose sleep over. 200' is something to start worrying about.

 

[KAB]

50 feet of quality cable is not something to lose sleep over. 200' is something to start worrying about.

Yes, but we do not know how far "the opposite side of the building" is.

 

[pookah]

The premise has two wings and one is already wired. Second wing is same distance from the dish - 50ft. Each wing has 12 units hence 3 x DPP44.

 

[Claude Greiner]

You could always put up a second dish

 

[harshness]

The premise has two wings and one is already wired. Second wing is same distance from the dish - 50ft. Each wing has 12 units hence 3 x DPP44.

That was a pretty careful avoidance of answering a reasonably specific question.

if the total walking distance is only 100' from one end of the facility to the opposite, you need not burden yourself with worrying about loss.

 

[navychop]

I'd think 100' from dish to each end point, no problem. 200' may well be a problem.

 

[bobvick]

You could always put up a second dish

If there's a good place, that sounds simplest to me too.

 

[pookah]

That was a pretty careful avoidance of answering a reasonably specific question.

if the total walking distance is only 100' from one end of the facility to the opposite, you need not burden yourself with worrying about loss.

I'd think 100' from dish to each end point, no problem. 200' may well be a problem.

Okay, so if signal loss should not be a problem, what is the best way to wire the second wing if setting up second dish isn't possible?

 

[boba]

Change the LNB on the dish for 3 DP dual LNBs. Run 1 line from each LNB into your first set of cascaded DPP44 switches. Take the second set of cables from the LNBs and run them into a second set of cascaded DPP44 switches.