Hi, new to the forum.
Our house has two sections connected by a breezeway but really are two separate buildings. We have a 5 LNB dish on one area where we have an HD DVR and all HD channels work fine- local mpeg 4 over the dish as well as the HD package and NFL Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice. There are two feeds in to the receiver and all works well.
For the other section of the house, there are two feeds as well going in to a multiswitch but we recently added an HD receiver in that part of the house and the only HD channels we can receive are the local channels- we receive other programming fine as well, but not all the additional HD channels.
I'm assuming that somehow, the two feeds we are getting are only supporting a subset of the satellites- although at one point I moved the feeds around and received some of the HD programming (HDNET) but lost other channels?
I didn't do the installation but trying to understand how I can get all the channels in one area with only two feeds but not in the other part of the house? I'm guessing there may have been splitters used in the original install to separate the two feeds going to a portion of the house that didn't have HD before being combined at the dish but does that seem reasonable?
Could a wide band type of splitter in the line feeding the area that does receive all HD programming be used to get the HD feed to the other area?
May just be time to start over, bring all the feeds to a single point and then use a 6X16 multiswitch but hoping there is a more simple answer?
I'm sure this is thoroughly confusing but tried to search a bit and really couldn't even figure out the terms to use? I also tried to search for a listing to show what programming is on what satellite but again, my search capabilities appear to be a bit weak?
Thanks!
Our house has two sections connected by a breezeway but really are two separate buildings. We have a 5 LNB dish on one area where we have an HD DVR and all HD channels work fine- local mpeg 4 over the dish as well as the HD package and NFL Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice. There are two feeds in to the receiver and all works well.
For the other section of the house, there are two feeds as well going in to a multiswitch but we recently added an HD receiver in that part of the house and the only HD channels we can receive are the local channels- we receive other programming fine as well, but not all the additional HD channels.
I'm assuming that somehow, the two feeds we are getting are only supporting a subset of the satellites- although at one point I moved the feeds around and received some of the HD programming (HDNET) but lost other channels?
I didn't do the installation but trying to understand how I can get all the channels in one area with only two feeds but not in the other part of the house? I'm guessing there may have been splitters used in the original install to separate the two feeds going to a portion of the house that didn't have HD before being combined at the dish but does that seem reasonable?
Could a wide band type of splitter in the line feeding the area that does receive all HD programming be used to get the HD feed to the other area?
May just be time to start over, bring all the feeds to a single point and then use a 6X16 multiswitch but hoping there is a more simple answer?
I'm sure this is thoroughly confusing but tried to search a bit and really couldn't even figure out the terms to use? I also tried to search for a listing to show what programming is on what satellite but again, my search capabilities appear to be a bit weak?
Thanks!