I am so relieve to find this forum. I just finished building a house, and having been in TV stations for 25+ years, I feel faily confident in the technical area. Full Disclosure> I am not an engineer, but I have picked up a great deal of practical knowledge over the years, and I am very greatful to have worked with some of the most brillient engineers in the world.
That said, I decided to act as contractor on this house and also planned and ran all of the low voltage wiriing. I was fortnate to have an excellent place in the basement to serve as a tech room which is adjacent to my 7.1 media room. I now have a room full, and I mean full of raw cat 5, video and audio cable. Yes it is time to finish the job and terminate all of the sources. When I ran all the wire and cable, I rand Cat 5 and video and data to each room. Some rooms I ran multiple sets.
I had decided to simply move the stellite service to the new house as it is about 200 feet from the old house. At the time, I also decided to stay SD until they started with the huge discounted promotions etc. I have told this whole deal to ask a simple question about which muliswitch to use to distribute the satellie signal. I plan to sell the house but I do want to get the signal to all of the bedrooms and a few other locations, including one DVR receiver which requires 2 feeds. the DirecTV guy was a joke. He piggybacked 2 basic swithches and left me with 4 receivers sitting on the floor... all working, but not attached to a TV. I'm thinking I need a 4x8 or so. Any suggestions and or comments on the set-up would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks... and sorry for the length of the post, which is my first by the way.
That said, I decided to act as contractor on this house and also planned and ran all of the low voltage wiriing. I was fortnate to have an excellent place in the basement to serve as a tech room which is adjacent to my 7.1 media room. I now have a room full, and I mean full of raw cat 5, video and audio cable. Yes it is time to finish the job and terminate all of the sources. When I ran all the wire and cable, I rand Cat 5 and video and data to each room. Some rooms I ran multiple sets.
I had decided to simply move the stellite service to the new house as it is about 200 feet from the old house. At the time, I also decided to stay SD until they started with the huge discounted promotions etc. I have told this whole deal to ask a simple question about which muliswitch to use to distribute the satellie signal. I plan to sell the house but I do want to get the signal to all of the bedrooms and a few other locations, including one DVR receiver which requires 2 feeds. the DirecTV guy was a joke. He piggybacked 2 basic swithches and left me with 4 receivers sitting on the floor... all working, but not attached to a TV. I'm thinking I need a 4x8 or so. Any suggestions and or comments on the set-up would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks... and sorry for the length of the post, which is my first by the way.
to SatelliteGuys!!!!
