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I'm moving a Mini to a different room can I use a splitter or do I need to run it outside to the swim switch. The cable that goes to this room meets up with where the cable going to a mini is.
 
I'm moving a Mini to a different room can I use a splitter or do I need to run it outside to the swim switch. The cable that goes to this room meets up with where the cable going to a mini is.
It has to connect to where the D* splitter is located now.
 
It has to connect to where the D* splitter is located now.
Can I use a splitter? It had to have been plugged into one in the room it was in since there are only 3 coming from the swim switch but I've always had 4 boxes
 
Do you have a swm switch or a swm splitter? How many lines come from the dish?
 
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Do you have a swm switch or a swm splitter? How many lines come from the dish?
I have one line from the dish to the swim of sorts I assume it's a switch that has 4 ports. 3 of which are being used but I have 1 genie and 3 minis so I know there is a splitter somewhere I just haven't found it. But I am moving one of the minis to a different room that is next to one that has a mini in it and the coax from this new room meets up with where a barrel connector is for the other room.
 
What you are calling a switch is really a splitter. There is one cable from the dish to the splitter, then cables to each mini and the Genie. Do you have a separate power inserter? Which model Genie? As long as the cable you connect the mini to goes back to the splitter you should be fine.
 
Well supposedly Directv's splitters are specifically designed to minimize port to port isolation in the DECA frequency range (i.e. signal coming in from one 'output' and going out the other output) which is something good quality cable/antenna splitters try to maximize, so there is a difference. But maybe not one that matters most of the time.

Given that DECA/MoCA outputs at around 0 dbm and specs say should be received to at least -45 dbm (and in Directv equipment can surely be received weaker than that) there's a lot of slop, even for good quality cable splitters that have >20 db port to port isolation.
 
What you are calling a switch is really a splitter. There is one cable from the dish to the splitter, then cables to each mini and the Genie. Do you have a separate power inserter? Which model Genie? As long as the cable you connect the mini to goes back to the splitter you should be fine.
Hr44-500. And yes I have a power inserter
 
I'm not sure if you can split a line to a mini like that. Installers?
 
I'm not sure if you can split a line to a mini like that. Installers?
I assumed it was possible because I have 3 minis and of course the genie but only 3 coax comes from the splitter outside so I know it is getting split atleast once inside
 
You’ll be surprised how many splitters you can chain with Directv.

I see Directv installers convert dish installs. Those are the worse with the number of 2 way splitters being used.

All diplexers get changed to splitters.
 
You’ll be surprised how many splitters you can chain with Directv.

I see Directv installers convert dish installs. Those are the worse with the number of 2 way splitters being used.

All diplexers get changed to splitters.

Yeah one time for the hell of it I chained something like 4 2 way, 1 3 way and 1 4 way off an 8 way that was connected directly to a SWM16 output, and the H20 on the end of that still had picture. The 8 way was a SWM splitter, all the rest were just ordinary cable or satellite splitters, and there was probably around 30' of coax total as well.

There's a lot of slop in Directv's specs, receivers can receive a signal WAY weaker than the -55 dbm that I believe Directv specs. I don't have a meter or anything, but I had to be below -70 dbm at that point. Of course "worked for a minute when I tried it" isn't the same as rock solid 24x7 for everyone who tries it so their generous specs are understandable.
 
You’ll be surprised how many splitters you can chain with Directv.

I see Directv installers convert dish installs. Those are the worse with the number of 2 way splitters being used.

All diplexers get changed to splitters.
Got a DirecTV approved splitter yesterday and all works great! Thanks guys
 
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Yeah one time for the hell of it I chained something like 4 2 way, 1 3 way and 1 4 way off an 8 way that was connected directly to a SWM16 output, and the H20 on the end of that still had picture. The 8 way was a SWM splitter, all the rest were just ordinary cable or satellite splitters, and there was probably around 30' of coax total as well.

There's a lot of slop in Directv's specs, receivers can receive a signal WAY weaker than the -55 dbm that I believe Directv specs. I don't have a meter or anything, but I had to be below -70 dbm at that point. Of course "worked for a minute when I tried it" isn't the same as rock solid 24x7 for everyone who tries it so their generous specs are understandable.

I even had one at a hospital that went 7 stories down the building from the roof and then 200 feet across a drop ceiling.

That was also on an 8 way splitter.
 
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