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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    Met a DirecTV guy at lunch. He said I have the single lmb with 4 cables coming off it. He said I need to get a new single line lmb.... However...I told him the previous owners were using the dish (I think the Comcast cable guy cut dish lines and didn't tell me) and they were using the 16 swm...
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    I tried to work on the this last night but my ladder wasn't tall enough to get me up to the dish and the slope of the roof the ladder did get me to was too steep I'd roll right off! I did notice there is a single lmb and the dish is a Slimline HD dish. I have not been able to tell what line or...
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    From what I'm understanding....the multiswitch was only used since the previous owners had so many receivers. Since I'm only hooking up one receiver...I don't really need the switch....so if the dish has the newer SWM lnb....then I can just run the cable from the dish into the house to the box...
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    Isn't the power supplied by the small black box that plugs into the wall outlet?
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    I spoke to the previous owner and he said the whole system was upgraded not long ago and they had 8 DVR receivers in the house!!! LOL He said the reason they had the 16 SWM switch hooked up was b/c they had so many receivers they were losing signal strength on some of them. Sounds like the...
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    A lot of this technical talk is foreign to me but I think I'm catching on! My Slim dish at my old house was about 6 months old. There was one line coming from the dish into the house that ran into the box that plugged into the wall outlet and then the other line from the box ran to my receiver...
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    Help hooking DirecTV at new house

    Hi all, Recently moved to a house that the previous owner had DTV. At my previous house I had HD DVR with the slim dish...1 receiver. I'm pretty sure at the old house I just had one line running off the dish to the slim box near my TV. I figured at the new house I'd just be able to hook the...
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