DTV is upgrading me to Genie/WH. can anyone tell me what to expect for my install/upgrade coming up and if there are important choices to make, esp regarding the (new) internet connection, existing OTA set-up, and geniego?
I currently have two HR-24/500s and one HR-24/200. all have AM21s. All are standalone/no whole home. standard two-wire install, 6x8 multi-switch outside (mounted on the side of the house). Slimline 5. The OTA signal is split three ways to feed each of the AM 21s directly.
DTV is installing whole home, replacing one of the 24s with whatever Genie they have, and connecting the system to my network, which consists of a 20mb/s DSL modem plus a Netgear wireless router. here are my questions;
1. will the genie play well with the AM21s or will I have to give up the AM21 on that room? the AM21s bring in a couple of local channels that are otherwise not available.
2. I realize the 24/500 and 24/200 are functionally the same box from different mfg. but which one would you give up (the 200 or one of the 500s) for the Genie?
3. The internet connection puzzles me -- old school says to have them run coax to the location of my network equipment, and plug a powered DECA into an unused port on my wireless router. Is that still the better approach? I'm hearing of new Genie boxes with integrated WiFi, outboard WiFi radios (CCK), and that installers are loathe to run new wire, preferring the wireless install instead. Conversely, I am old school and loathe to rely on a wireless radio or a DTV receiver as a single point of failure. Thus, the coax/powered DECA still seems like a much better "single point of failure" to me. On that note, the genie itself will be in a room closest to my router - will the coax run from genie to the router, or from switch to router?
4. If I go with the wired DECA integration to my DSL network, can this be disconnected without disrupting WH operation?
5. I assume GenieGo's connection is coax, and thus it lives on the DTV network, correct? or is it Wireless? I ask because I don't want streaming traffic going across my router. I guess if I am outside of my home network and want to stream, then GenieGo has to stream across my router, and in this case, streaming rate depends on upload speed, not download speed, of my DSL system right?
6. a genie and two DVRs means 9 tuners (nice), which I assume means a SWM 16 switch. where will DTV install this (inside or outside) and what will become of the two coax cables that are now routed to each room from the existing 6x8 switch? whats behind my question is that if the single wire coax bandwidth is limited to 8 channels, then the implication is that more than one coax line has to go to each room? I'd really like to see a diagram of a 9 tuner setup -- from dish to switch to receivers to internet. anyone have such a thing?
I currently have two HR-24/500s and one HR-24/200. all have AM21s. All are standalone/no whole home. standard two-wire install, 6x8 multi-switch outside (mounted on the side of the house). Slimline 5. The OTA signal is split three ways to feed each of the AM 21s directly.
DTV is installing whole home, replacing one of the 24s with whatever Genie they have, and connecting the system to my network, which consists of a 20mb/s DSL modem plus a Netgear wireless router. here are my questions;
1. will the genie play well with the AM21s or will I have to give up the AM21 on that room? the AM21s bring in a couple of local channels that are otherwise not available.
2. I realize the 24/500 and 24/200 are functionally the same box from different mfg. but which one would you give up (the 200 or one of the 500s) for the Genie?
3. The internet connection puzzles me -- old school says to have them run coax to the location of my network equipment, and plug a powered DECA into an unused port on my wireless router. Is that still the better approach? I'm hearing of new Genie boxes with integrated WiFi, outboard WiFi radios (CCK), and that installers are loathe to run new wire, preferring the wireless install instead. Conversely, I am old school and loathe to rely on a wireless radio or a DTV receiver as a single point of failure. Thus, the coax/powered DECA still seems like a much better "single point of failure" to me. On that note, the genie itself will be in a room closest to my router - will the coax run from genie to the router, or from switch to router?
4. If I go with the wired DECA integration to my DSL network, can this be disconnected without disrupting WH operation?
5. I assume GenieGo's connection is coax, and thus it lives on the DTV network, correct? or is it Wireless? I ask because I don't want streaming traffic going across my router. I guess if I am outside of my home network and want to stream, then GenieGo has to stream across my router, and in this case, streaming rate depends on upload speed, not download speed, of my DSL system right?
6. a genie and two DVRs means 9 tuners (nice), which I assume means a SWM 16 switch. where will DTV install this (inside or outside) and what will become of the two coax cables that are now routed to each room from the existing 6x8 switch? whats behind my question is that if the single wire coax bandwidth is limited to 8 channels, then the implication is that more than one coax line has to go to each room? I'd really like to see a diagram of a 9 tuner setup -- from dish to switch to receivers to internet. anyone have such a thing?