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A couple of years ago, my fiance and I had DirecTV installed at her house. We have three active receivers. (One dual tuner Tivo, one single tuner Tivo and an RCA DRD430RG).
The latter unit has been in the upstairs guest bedroom and has hardly been used. My office shares the wall with the guest bedroom. Approximately opposite of each other are two cable/coax wall plates. Since I am building a Freevo (Hauppauge PVR-150 with a serial channel changer), I decided to test the wall plate in my office by bringing the receiver over and hooking it up to a tv. To my mild disappointment, I got the "Waiting for Satellite Signal" message. After double checking the coax hookups I decided to go outside and check out the splitter in the cable box.
The splitter is a 2 to 4 splitter (I'm assuming taking each LNB off the dish and splitting it 4 ways (Receiver 1, Receiver 2, etc.) Two of the cables, I'm fairly certain, are tacked around the house and into the living room and this feeds our 2 input Tivo unit (we ran the two cables under our rug to the entertainment center.) The other two appear to be cable coaxes that I assume are running to different wall plates throughout the house. There were two free coax cables so I decided to undo 1 of the cables and try each of the free coax cables and see if it would "activate" or feed the wall plate in my office.
Unfortunately, this did not work out. Neither alternate cable appeared to feed the wall plate in my office. I did notice the original coax I unhooked cut the signal to the single tuner Tivo that we have in the master bedroom. So it appears my theory was somewhat correct that the black cables in the box run to different jacks throughout the house.
I have a service call scheduled for them to have a look at it. What I'm wondering is, from what I have described, does it sound like they are going to have to run another cable from the junction to the upstairs? Will they possibly unhook the guest bedroom wall plate and line it to the wall plate in my office? Anybody with experience willing to share what is typically done in this situation? What possible scenarios of work would be at play here.
I'm hoping any one of you will be able to set some expectations so I can talk intelligently with the technician about what I need to happen to get this wall plate working in my office.
Cheers,
MWF
A couple of years ago, my fiance and I had DirecTV installed at her house. We have three active receivers. (One dual tuner Tivo, one single tuner Tivo and an RCA DRD430RG).
The latter unit has been in the upstairs guest bedroom and has hardly been used. My office shares the wall with the guest bedroom. Approximately opposite of each other are two cable/coax wall plates. Since I am building a Freevo (Hauppauge PVR-150 with a serial channel changer), I decided to test the wall plate in my office by bringing the receiver over and hooking it up to a tv. To my mild disappointment, I got the "Waiting for Satellite Signal" message. After double checking the coax hookups I decided to go outside and check out the splitter in the cable box.
The splitter is a 2 to 4 splitter (I'm assuming taking each LNB off the dish and splitting it 4 ways (Receiver 1, Receiver 2, etc.) Two of the cables, I'm fairly certain, are tacked around the house and into the living room and this feeds our 2 input Tivo unit (we ran the two cables under our rug to the entertainment center.) The other two appear to be cable coaxes that I assume are running to different wall plates throughout the house. There were two free coax cables so I decided to undo 1 of the cables and try each of the free coax cables and see if it would "activate" or feed the wall plate in my office.
Unfortunately, this did not work out. Neither alternate cable appeared to feed the wall plate in my office. I did notice the original coax I unhooked cut the signal to the single tuner Tivo that we have in the master bedroom. So it appears my theory was somewhat correct that the black cables in the box run to different jacks throughout the house.
I have a service call scheduled for them to have a look at it. What I'm wondering is, from what I have described, does it sound like they are going to have to run another cable from the junction to the upstairs? Will they possibly unhook the guest bedroom wall plate and line it to the wall plate in my office? Anybody with experience willing to share what is typically done in this situation? What possible scenarios of work would be at play here.
I'm hoping any one of you will be able to set some expectations so I can talk intelligently with the technician about what I need to happen to get this wall plate working in my office.
Cheers,
MWF