Switching dual and single receivers

[roo2d2]

Hi!

We have a new Dish Network satellite (with what looks like four ports on the back), a dual HD receiver hooked up to two of them and a single HD receiver hooked up to a third. The dual receiver is telling us to hook it up to a phone line to avoid a surcharge, but it's nowhere near a phone line, so we'd like to swap our two receivers.

Dish wants to charge us a lot to do this. And even more to swap out the dual receiver for a single receiver, so we were hoping to do it ourselves.

However, since there's two lines coming into the wall from the sattelite for the dual receiver and one line coming into the wall for the single receiver, we're not sure this is possible.

Is there some sort of dohicky I can buy that will let me hook up the single line to two ports on the sattelite and the two ports on the dual receiver and still have both channels?

--roo2d2

 

[okiekevn]

nope. you would need to run one of the extra lines to the room where the single tuner is located. then you need to worry about running the tv2 cable output from your dual rec to its tv2 location as well. if you had a dishproplus lnb or switch, you could get a dpp seperator(a doohickey device). but the cost of the new lnb or switch plus cost of parts and cables, and all the time your going to put into it, and possilby risk damage to your home( i do not know how much skill level you have in running cable), best off to leave it to the pros.

now there is option b...Brand New RadioShack Wireless Phone Jack System 43-160

. get any wireless phonejack device. they are way cheap on ebay. this doohickey will allow you to connect a phoneline to your dual tuner wihtouth moving it or having to install a new phoneline.

 

[boba]

Or just pay the $5/mo. fee for not having the phoneline connected.

 

[Agonizing Fury]

Or since it's a ViP receiver you could get a HomePlug Ethernet device. (if you have high speed internet), or a DishComm modem. AFAIK, both should be cheaper than the wireless phone lines.

 

[BobaBird]

Sounds like you have a Dish 1000.2. If so, you can swap the receivers. The dual-tuner only needs 1 line from the integrated DishPro Plus switch if you use the DPP Separator that came with the receiver. Run a Check Switch so it can learn the new configuration. If you already have that and the 2nd line is actually for OTA or TV2 you'll probably want one of the other options.