Splitter ???

[jeffnoel]

Newbie here, are the splitters for satellite different than the handful of old cable splitter I have in a drawer? I got the Dish for Xmas and love it, got the 625 DVR and don't miss anything on the Speed Channel anymore. I have the 625 connected to 2 TV sets and would like to split one of those signals after the receiver to send it to the small 13" TV in the garage. What type of splitter do I need? I'd rather not pay for an extra receiver just to have satellite in the garage.

 

[HCI]

Are you doing a backfeed?

Do you want to be able to watch the same thing on both TV's, if so it is very simple just come out of the receiver "TV OUT" into a splitter and run from there.

 

[jeffnoel]

I'm not sure what it's called but yes I want to send the same output to 2 TVs so can I just use any old splitter or do I need something special to work with digital satellite?

 

[volkodav]

no you can use any splitter make sure you make relay good connections so nothing touching center conductor. and make sure you don't split satellite feed other wise it wont work

 

[sA :: Shaggy]

I think u could use a regular splitter becuause tv2 isnt digital, is it?

 

[volkodav]

yes you can use a splitter on TV2

 

[jeffnoel]

So all splitters are the same? I have some that are marked 5-950 MHz another marked 5-1000MHz, and another that says it's a digital splitter marked 5MHz-1.0GHz. Which do I use? Now after checking eBay i found one that says 5MHz-2.0GHz aaaaaarrrgh.

 

[volkodav]

try all of them compare picture quality. use a smaller db loss splitter

 

[HCI]

The 5-950 will work fine for what you need to do.