Whole Home DVR Technical Question - HR22 & H23

[PMKS]

I currently don't have the Whole Home DVR or Genie.

DirecTV recently offered to upgrade me to the Genie and three mini-Genies for free, but I turned it down because my wife did not want to lose some recordings on our current DVR.

I have a HR22, an H23, two H21's, and some non-HD IRD's. I have two sat dishes on my house because the installers in the 1990's thought that was easier than running long wire runs because my house was built in the early 60's and added onto twice. The "front" dish has a four wire SL3 going to the HR22, a D12, and the H23.

I want to get my H23 in the Master bedroom to be able to connect to my HR22 in the main room, BUT, the CSR told me that I would need a SWiM LNB, power inserter, and "bandstops" on the rest of the IRD's.

Two Questions:

I have a SWiM SL5 in the garage, could I hook it up myself and call DirecTV to activate the Whole Home DVR?

Why does the H21's and non-HD IRD's not connected to the SWiM dish need bandstops? and does the D12 that will be hooked to the SWiM need one?

Thanks in advance for any help...

 

[Liquidforce88]

You would need DECA's for the receivers as well as Bandstops for any nonHD receivers as well as the SWiM LNB, splitter and power inserter

 

[Lanarian]

By your description, the receivers you want on the whole home are on the same dish (HR22 and H23 connected to a Slimline 3).
The Slimline 3 would need to be converted to a SWM (or, yes, you could swap it over to the SL5.. with the right splitters... green label SWM Splitters), Both the HR22 and the H23 would need DECA's (One each), and the D12 will need a Bandstop filter.
The DECA's allow the receivers to communicate over the coaxial network, The Bandstop Filter stops the Coaxial Network traffic from interfering with the satellite signal on the D12, and the SWM allows the Coaxial network to run.
Once you have The Whole Home Service Activated on the account, the receivers on the other dish will show it, but it wont work, unless it gets changed to a SWM also, with DECA's and what not, and then would only share among receiver connected to that dish.
For ALL the HD receivers to share using Whole Home, they would all need to be on the same SWM network (just one dish).

 

[PMKS]

Thanks, thats what I needed to know


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