How Many Receivers?

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mikemrq

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Have Directv with 3 cables coming from the dish. I have a HD DVR, HD and a standard receiver in the house. Is it possible to add 2 more standard receivers without running another cable from the dish? Can I just add a splitter?
 
I'm going to assume that since he has three cables coming from the dish and he has HD receivers that it is a legacy LNB Slimline dish.
Not sure how he's using 4 tuners with three lines.
Anyway, you need to add a fourth line to the dish and connect them to a Zinwell WB68 multiswitch.
Then connect the outputs to your receivers.

Please provide dish/LNB details.
 
In the menu it is listed as.........Slimline5, switch type-multi switch

Then you should have 4 lines coming from the dish to the ground block, maybe there is an open spot on the LNB ?
However that doesn't do anything for the fact you have more recvrs than cables.

With the Slimline dishes, you normally have 4 lines from the LNB ....
If your using a Slimline SWM, you'll only have 1 line from the LNB and that will go to a Power Inserter (PI), then to the splitter in your case and then to the recvrs.
 
OK, I had one HD receiver and two standards. The installer came to install a HD DVR. He removed the one standard and replaced it with the HD DVR. He was going to add another cable from the dish, but decided to just add a muti switch. He said that he had to reconfigure the receivers. My question is, can I add two more standard receivers or one HD and a standard?
 
OK, I had one HD receiver and two standards. The installer came to install a HD DVR. He removed the one standard and replaced it with the HD DVR. He was going to add another cable from the dish, but decided to just add a muti switch. He said that he had to reconfigure the receivers. My question is, can I add two more standard receivers or one HD and a standard?

A standard recvr requires 1 line as does a HD recvr.
If you have HD DVR, you need 2 (unless it's a SWM) to make the DVR work correctly.

I'm having trouble figuring out what you have currently and what your wanting to add.
If you have a HD recvr on your account theres no reason to add any Standard recvrs, as your already paying for the HD Fee and the HD Recvrs will work fine on a SD TV.
 
The installer probably upgraded him to SWM so he didn't have to run the 2nd line to the DVR. Not a bad idea...
 
The installer probably upgraded him to SWM so he didn't have to run the 2nd line to the DVR. Not a bad idea...

Yes, but if he did, it would show in the Dish set up section of the menus.
He would also have a PI sitting somewhere plugged in, you'd think he would be told about it.
 
The installer probably upgraded him to SWM so he didn't have to run the 2nd line to the DVR. Not a bad idea...

He listed in post 4 that it was :
In the menu it is listed as.........Slimline5, switch type-multi switch

IF it was a SWM, it would say Slimline 5 SWM
 
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