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Ahh ok thanks. I've already ordered it and it was sold by NetDeal for $115 free shipping.

So I'm adding another receiver to another bedroom in the house and just purchased the ViP 211k from amazon. I don't really know too much about smartcards or what they do but does this receiver need one? If so would it come with one since its purchased new or do I still need to get a smartcard...

Cool, thank you!

The Dish tech ran a dual RG-6 quad shield cable from the dish. is it ok to get a razor blade and run it between the 2 cables to separate them so I have 2 RG-6 cables? I'm assuming its safe to do as its just cutting rubber in between the 2 cables but just wanted to make sure before I do it.

Oh ok cool thanks for the info! I thought maybe i could tie the 2nd line coming down to the ground from the dish into the one line going into the house somehow. So the LNB has 3 ports capable of connecting dual or single tuner receivers right? I think I may be able to get up there and run a...

Somewhat new to satellite but have been reading up on it a bunch. I have the general idea of how splitters, separators, and diplexers work. I'm trying to add a 2nd receiver to one of my upstairs bedrooms. Currently we have a ViP 722k Dual Tuner DVR in our family room. The output is feeding 3 of...