3lnb dish with 4 outputs, have two dvrs I want to get two cables to so I can watch and record. two legs off the dish are upstairs, two downstairs where the dvr's are. thought I could split the legs and run one from each split to each dvr, didn't work, put in a passive multiswitch and could watch and record on both... BUT I lost my locals... signal feed is good, Directv is stumped and so am I, I get a 721 error that says I haven't paid for the channels, but they all show up in the channel guide and I have paid for them. I picked up a powered terk multiswith today but have to wait til I get home to try it. Any suggestions? The world cup is starting friday and I really need this working...
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There is a multiswitch built into the 3lnb, all you need is 2 coax from dish to one DVR, and 2 to the other DVR, if that is the only 2 receivers in the setup, nothing else is needed, otherwise, you will need at least a 4x6 cascadable multiswitch (or 4x8 depending on how many outputs you need total (2 for each dvr, one for each nondvr), you _have_ to plug ALL 4 coax FROM the dish into the 4x side of said switch (NO SPLITTERS), then you can run the 6 (or 8) outputs from the 4x into each tuner (2 for each dvr, one for each nondvr).
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ok, that makes sense... so you can't take two off the built in multiswitch and put them into another multiswitch and use the outputs?
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You could physically, but you won't ever get the results you want/think (you will be missing transponders, and hence, channels). So, no.
Good luck.
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