Single tuner to dual tuner, one cable?

[DiscoRage]

The house I moved in to already had a satellite installation. When it was installed, they used the house's existing cabling. The installer hooked the dish and switch into the house's junction point.

I unhooked the existing single tuner HD receiver and I am now using my Bell 9200 (I believe it's dish model 901) with a dual tuner. The problem is, there is only one cable. How can I split this to use both tuners? Will a standard cable splitter work?

I was thinking of using my SW44 to split the single cable into two. Will this work even though there is already an SW44 installed somewhere else?

Sorry to sound a bit vague, I've been using cable for the past year so I've forgotten a lot of satellite terminology. Replies don't need to be dumbed down for my sake. Use the correct technical term and it will come back to me.

Anyone know how I can go about fixing this?

 

[osu1991]

Are you sure it is an sw44? If it is you will have to run a second cable. Not sure if the bell software works with the Dish Pro Plus technology. If it is you could replace the lnb and switch with DPP versions and use a single cable with a Dish Pro Separator.

 

[DiscoRage]

I'm not able to run a second cable, but I fixed the problem. I was able to split the single cable into two with a standard coax splitter.

I guess the existing SW44 switch that is pumping the signal through the house's coax network has enough power to us the regular splitter.

Thanks anyway!

 

[Andrewwski]

That's not how it works at all.

Try watching two different channels from two different satellites/polarities on the two tuners at once.

Won't work.

 

[Mr Tony]

oh good lord no. That splitter will not work and you'll probably fry the box.

There are a couple ways around it. If all you use is the 9200 then do this
swap out the LNB setup on the dish with a DishProPlus Twin
get a separator (NOT a splitter). They are designed to work with DPP technology
Then you can use the separator in the house to go to the 2 tuners...one line comes from the LNB on the roof and comes into the house. Attach the separator to it and hook it up to both tuners

Or switch to a DishPro setup and get a DPP44+ switch and a separator. This will require 2 lines from the roof (91 & 82) to the switch