I want to activate my old 625, do i need to run more wires

[alex5252]

Hi, I currently have a 722 and a 311 activated and i have a old 625 and i was wondering if i need to run more wires from my dish or if i can run 2 sat. signals through 1 wire. I have a dish 1000. Also how hard is it to hook wires up to the dish?

Thanks in advance

 

[TheKrell]

If you have a Dish 1000.2, it's not hard at all. It has 3 DishPro Plus outputs. But RG6 has to go all the way from receiver to the LNB assembly. No splitting that cable!

 

[alex5252]

If you have a Dish 1000.2, it's not hard at all. It has 3 DishPro Plus outputs. But RG6 has to go all the way from receiver to the LNB assembly. No splitting that cable!

How do i check to see if it is a 1000.2 and i already have 3 wires coming out of the dish, will i be able to add more receivers?

 

[TheKrell]

Go to your 722 and hit Menu - 6 - 1 - 3 and read off the Device (hardwarwe?) line. That will say what LNBs and which satellites it can see. If it's a 1000.2 or 1000.4, then it has 3 outputs. One cable would come from each output and go to each receiver. If you currently have 2 receivers, then that 3rd output and cable should be free.

 

[BobaBird]

If it's an original Dish 1000 it will probably have a DPP Twin which has only 2 receiver outputs. In that case you would need to add an external switch or replace the dish.