Dish Network Gurus?????

[SAC]

I got a few questions on connections. Trying to drop a line in my garage. If you got the time, pm me a number that I can call you on.

TIA
SAC

[Loneaggie]

Guru... not hardly. But if you have the spare LNB's you can drop a switch. All your cable has to be RG-6 and depending on run length might need an amplifier.

[SAC]

LNB???

If I put T splitter between my dish and receiver, will the signal back feed to the additional tv.

[Tubby]

LNB???

If I put T splitter between my dish and receiver, will the signal back feed to the additional tv.

To run two different TV's off of one dish, the dish has to have two receiving eyes on it. Putting a "T" splitter could work (i think) but you'll have to have another receiver for the additional TV. One thing that I know will work is putting a splitter between the receiver and the 1st TV and then running line to the 2nd TV that doesn't have a receiver. You can only watch the same channel that the 1st TV is tuned to.

[SabreKiller]

I have 3 TV's on dish...

two of them have boxes connected to them and the third has a wireless antenna connected to the cable behind the TV.

[Loneaggie]

If you have 3 TV's on one dish you're probably done. LNB's are the actual channel receivers on your dish. I forget the equation but each LNB supports X tvs/recievers. You'd have to look up which LNB and switch you have now and see what its capabilities are.

If it helps you understand the max. no. of TVs you can have is limited by the components of the dish NOT how many cables/receivers you have.

[hntndawg]

LNB???

If I put T splitter between my dish and receiver, will the signal back feed to the additional tv.

No you can't just spilt the feed. Sat works diffferent from antena. The lines are two way feed. the LNBF (the "reciever" part of your dish) gets power from the dish to change the "stream" its reading to match the chanels you want to watch. If you just split it it wack this out of sync and you will see issues. They make "multi switches" that act kinda like spliters but let the LNBF do its thing, and most LNBF's now days have built in switches with several ports off of them. Pull your LNBF and see if i has a spare port. That would be the simpilest way if it does.

You can split the outgoing analog feed to you tv with no problems, but you will be watching the same chanel.