dp splitter

[CivicOnBoostEK]

When i was installed, I just have a dpptwin, an 811 upstairs in my room, and a 311 in my living room.. Anyway, I want to get a 721 for dvr recording (no dvr fee), but the thing is, Id need a dpp44.. this i already know.. I picked up a dp compliant splitter, and tested it with my 811 and 301.. Is it normal for one receiver to get all sats and the other to get 119-even? If thats the case, I just dont understand what the point of it is.

Anyway, is there any way around getting a dpp44?


didnt think so

 

[Van]

you dont need a dp splitter, you need a dp seperator that works with a dpp twin and a dpp 44, it clones the sat signal more or less perfectly including the power. You can drop the 311 and put the 721 there and put the dpp seperator on the line there. You will want to temp run two lines from the dish to the 721 though and check switch and download the receiver before using the seperator though as I believe that it wont recognize this setup until it downloads the software. There are a few on here that know more about the 721 and its eccentricities than I do and they will chime in shortly.

 

[CivicOnBoostEK]

the seperator would work for the 721, but I also need my 811 connected in my room also.. So i need 2 lines going in there, then one for my parents in the living room.

Main question though, is what is the point of the dp splitter?

 

[Jared Twomey]

the seperator would work for the 721, but I also need my 811 connected in my room also.. So i need 2 lines going in there, then one for my parents in the living room.

Main question though, is what is the point of the dp splitter?

Again, it's NOT A SPLITTER!!! it is a dish proplus Seperator. It can only be used with Dish Network Dual Tuner Receivers, NOT two seperate recievers!!!
It is used to provide two satellite feeds to a the dual tuner receivers instead of having to run two direct cable runs.... It does it by converting the signal and stacking it in such a way that the dual-tuner receivers can decipher, where as two individual recievers get all confused and don't get all the satellites... as you found.


Ps (if by chance you actually do have a "DP Splitter" they can be used in very few situations, such as hooking up three receivers to three satellites and having to split one of the feeds off of a dual lnb, before going into the switches... the difference in the DP splitter and a regular splitter is that the DP version would be power-passing on both sides.)

 

[BrettTRay]

I could be wrong but I thought a DP compliant splitter only passes power on one side. There would be no need in two DP receivers both sending 19v to one DP Single/Dual, right?

 

[CivicOnBoostEK]

Again, it's NOT A SPLITTER!!! it is a dish proplus Seperator. It can only be used with Dish Network Dual Tuner Receivers, NOT two seperate recievers!!!
It is used to provide two satellite feeds to a the dual tuner receivers instead of having to run two direct cable runs.... It does it by converting the signal and stacking it in such a way that the dual-tuner receivers can decipher, where as two individual recievers get all confused and don't get all the satellites... as you found.


Ps (if by chance you actually do have a "DP Splitter" they can be used in very few situations, such as hooking up three receivers to three satellites and having to split one of the feeds off of a dual lnb, before going into the switches... the difference in the DP splitter and a regular splitter is that the DP version would be power-passing on both sides.)

im not talking about the seperator, im talking about the dp compliant splitter. The dp splitter only passes power on the one side which gets all the satelites, My question was, is it normal to get all sats on the power side, and only one sat on the other? again im not using a seperator.

 

[Dish Dude]

a DP splitter is used in residential settings predominantly for wing dish, 148 or 61.5, when there is 2 or less receivers in line. It is used in commercial settings for different uses. You need a separator, your setup won't work

 

[swm61230]

When i was installed, I just have a dpptwin, an 811 upstairs in my room, and a 311 in my living room.. Anyway, I want to get a 721 for dvr recording (no dvr fee), but the thing is, Id need a dpp44.. this i already know.. I picked up a dp compliant splitter, and tested it with my 811 and 301.. Is it normal for one receiver to get all sats and the other to get 119-even? If thats the case, I just dont understand what the point of it is.

Anyway, is there any way around getting a dpp44?


didnt think so

I sent you a PM....let me know if that made sense to you.

 

[BobaBird]

im not talking about the seperator, im talking about the dp compliant splitter.

You can NOT use any type of splitter downstream from the switch to feed more than 1 receiver. You need a different or additional switch.

You can use a splitter to feed more than 1 switch, such as a DP Single to 2 DP21s, or the legacy parallel SW44 and SW64 setups.

You can also use a splitter to feed more than 1 receiver from 1 DP LNB. That is not practical as most Dish installations need at least 2 satellites.

 

[CivicOnBoostEK]

so baiscally, the splitter is for 1 sat configurations, and mainly used on the switch side of the install?