Thread: Two satellite signals on home coax?

Here follows a question only the folks on this type of site would know .

I have the usual coax into all rooms of the house. I made the crummy mistake of using splitters in some of the rooms which I think is where my downfall will be.

Wondering if there is a box out there that would let me take one, or two even better, satellite signals (W5 and KU FTA), sending them over the single coax to my office upstairs in the house.

All of my gear is in the basement but I recently bought an HD TV for my office which is upstairs. I'm wanting to get the best signal I can onto the TV so figured maybe a DVI extender or something but most of them need two Ethernet cables. While I did wire two into my office, one is already in use so there's only one available.

Then I thought, what if I were able to bring the receivers upstairs and connect them directly to the TV. Of course, I'd have to find a way to bring their coax signals up to me. Hard to search for something like that, which I have, but now it's time to ask since there are so many who have done similar things here.

Thanks.

Mike

i have read your post numerous times and still can not really understand what you are asking....can you clarify a bit?

Sure.
First, I used splitters when I built the house and ran the coax. I should have used direct runs to each room. My guess is that splitters will ruin any idea of mixing signals over coax.

Second, all of my gear is in the basement and I would prefer having it in my office. However, all of the dish cables terminate in the basement and there's no way to get them upstairs without some serious work.

Third, I was wondering if I could use a switch of some sort that would allow me to mix the C-Band and KU cables onto my house coax, and using a breakout box in my office, be able to extend those two signals.

Finally, I would have the Cband and KU receivers in my office, connected directly to the TV for a much better video signal.

Currently, I am using standard RF modulators to get composite onto the house coax which ends up pretty degraded by the time it gets to the TV.

So question would be... is there a combiner of some sort that would do the trick I'm looking to do?
I basically am wondering if I can still use the individual C-Band and KU signals by connecting them into my house coax.
Of course, I would not motor.

you talk about some type of dvi extender? what is that all about?

Originally Posted by Mikey11

you talk about some type of dvi extender? what is that all about?

I'll edit that to mean HDMI. On that, I just meant that I see plenty of HDMI extenders but the audio/video ones seem to require two Ethernet cables and I don't have enough cable to make that happen so need to find another way. Hence, putting the C-Band and KU signals onto the house coax.

Had I been able to simply extend my main output device to my office, then I would not need to do anything else. That might still be an option, I'm looking around.

Can't seem to edit original post. I was going to simplify it.

I'm still unclear what you are trying to do but let me ask how many receivers are you trying to connect? If just one, why not use a DiSEqC switch?

if you are a handy guy and want to use the ethernet cabling you can actually run TWO ethernet devices off of one cable....so doing this would really give you 4 ethernet connections to your office....if you want to go this route i will explain how....

I'll answer the one question.....no you cannot combine 2 sat connections over one cable....ok well you could do it if you had some expensive bandstackers and unstackers...so the simple answer is no

For the other folks, I've seen Satire's setup. He has (right now) everything in the basement and from what I read he wants to move the receivers to the upstairs.

Now I forget Satire if you are using the C-Band dish just for W5 and the motorized on your roof is for KU or is everything in one dish? DO you know where the splitters are in the setup? Because you really need straight shots to the rooms. I thought you had a "home run" spot (where the cables all went) in the basement? Or was that just the cables coming from outside?