How do I set up DirecTV w/DVR....?

Question

I have DirecTV installed in family room and master bedroom. I recently bought a 3rd DirecTV w/DVR receiver for spare bedroom. Bedroom has coaxial cable outlets but during set-up, I don't appear to get any signal strength. Customer Service told me that the bedroom is not connected to the dish the way the other rooms are. I am clueless with this kind of technology. How do I find out where the coaxial cables in the spare bedroom run? If they're connected the the dish or not? and how to get the receiver a signal?? Any help or info would help out tremendously! Thank you!

Answer 1

The cables have to go somewhere - perhaps to a network box in the basement? You need to determine where they run - if you can't figure it out, you'll have to hire someone. You don't need an electrician, but they can do it for you. Look in your yellow pages for a local alarm company - those folks tend to know how to do everything when it comes to in-house wiring.

Your satellite has only a "few" RG-6 (coax) outputs. If it has 2, for example, you probably already have a multiplexer. You would probably have a 2x8 - 2 inputs, 8 outputs. If your dish has 4 outputs, as mine does, and you need more than 4 connections (i.e. 3 TiVo's) you can buy a 4x8 multiplexer.

But the key is finding all the lines from your dish and where they go and then where these cables from the bedroom go to. My guess is somewhere in your basement is an area/box where everything comes together. If you don't have the right equipment on-site, an alarm installer (or find a local satellite installer) will be able to help you out here, if you can't do it yourself.

One brand of multiplexers is Terk.

Answer 2

To determine if your cables are connect to the dish it is a simple calculation. If you already have 1 dvr (or tivo) in you home you will two cables running from the tivo to the dish (enables both tuners). So for every tivo in the house if you look at the dish there will be two cables attached. If you also have any standard receivers, for each one you will have one additional cable attached. In conclusion. One tivo in the house, 2 cables at the dish. If you have never had a Tivo in the location you are referring to then if the existing cable is attached to the dish you WILL need to install a second. Depending on the type of dish you have (there areseveral) you may have to add a larger multi-switch.
Really the best thing to do would be to have Directv come out and install the second tivo. They will do it for free the only stipulation is that you agree to keep your programming (of at least $29.99/mo) for an additional years beginning on the activation date of the Tivo. That's not really bad and if you move you can take it with you and they will move you for free too.
So to make iot easy on yourself, just call 'em and insist on the free install.

Answer 3

Directv isn't cable. it quite is satellite tv for pc. you will no longer might desire to alter something. you do no longer choose a digital converter field through fact you're the two staring at television in digital already or in intense Definition. you mustn't be receiving any new channels. Directv will provide your close by channels as their close by section community channels on your specific section. As for the better channels which you would be waiting to get with a close by antennae(rabbit ears) like the factors channels for those stations, you will no longer get those.