Recent content by rafaelbarriola

jdspencer I want to thank you for all the help and also tell you that all I needed was to reset the box, using the red button on the front, some guys at the directv forum told me to try and worked on the first try. Thx again.

Thanks for all the help, I'm out of ideas the only thing I haven't tried is to get a signal booster and test, I don't even know if I should, I cant try to use the extension cables directly from the dish now because they are inside the walls. But again thanks for the help

Doing that is not an option eheh I would like to try but now the cables a running thru the walls ehe, the connectors I'm using are like this one: Amazon.com: GE Coaxial Cable Extension Adaptor 2-pk. - 73203: Electronics

I just did a test with an extra cabled I had, this cable had the same size of inside cable coming out like the directv one and it didn't work, I know for a fact that connecting the box to the original cables it works and that this new cable I tried works too, I have 3 extra adapters to try and...

I'm connecting my extension cables with adapters to the original cables ran by the installer, and after you first post I went to check and saw that the original cables had the inside cable going out of the braid and the ones I'm connecting to extend it have the inside cables shorter then the...

I'm using a regular extension adapter for both cables and the cables were pre-built from Ace Hardware, I'm sorry but you got me with the short to the braid, you mean shorter inside than the braid? Thanks for the help!

Turner2 not working (Extending cables) Hi guys I'm new to this, but I tried to move my R16-500 box to another room by using just extra cables to extent it there, it worked for turner 1, but for turner 2 nothing seems to work, i tried switching the cables to check if turner 2 would work with...