i have one legit receiver that i pay $ for my international channels, and my pansat 2500 which i dont pay jack $hyt...i bought a satellite splitter which allows me to connect my satellite to both receivers, but i have problems with signal...one of the receiver works fine when the OTHER RECEIVER IS OFF....while the 2nd receiver works for 1 min, then loses signal, then it works again...in other words, i watched an nfl game yeterday with 50 gaps...
im thinking the problem is the cheap 9 dollar satellite splitter from radio shack....should i have gotten a better splitter, why am i losing signal? thanks in advance
ok thanks mc sunny.... since i do get signal on one of the receivers and the other one gets signal sometimes, i thought maybe it's something else i figured if the splitter wouldn't work, i would have 0 signal on both...
LK, the one that im paying $ for is not a DN receiver...its a globecast receiver as far as the DN receiver in concerned, im not subscribed to DN. you know the deal
does that change anything, or you still say i shouldnt bother with the diseqc switch?
Andrew - What's the setup (other then the switch you tried to install). Is it a regular dish? Dish 500? What is the LNB type? You need more info here in order for me to help.
Jen - That will only work if he's only using a single sat setup. but if he's using a DishPro (Twin or Quad) LNB then he already has everythign he needs. Just need to set it up correctly. That's why I said, he needs to provide more information.
maybe i asked my question in an unclear way, i apologize... so i have 3 LNB's...dish 110, dish 119 and one for EUROPEAN channels... i have 4 pansats, which i get DN with the help of these bins...in my PLAYROOM, i have a pansat 2500 and i also have a GLOBECAST receiver, which i pay a monthly fee...(i only got the globecast receiver last week since these bins do not make globecast work) if i put the wire in the LNB IN in the back of the pansat 2500, everything works fine...if i put it in the globecast receiver, my international channels work fine the problem arises when i try to get signal to both of the receivers..i bought a SATELLITE SPLITTER which should allow me to watch DN on one receiver abd GC on the other receiver..the problem is that i have spotty signal on the DN receiver (the pansat 2500)...so the satellite splitter is not doing its job...
Yes it does. The problem is the spliter. If you have three LNB's either single or dual you're still going to need a switch. DP34 works pretty good. However you may need to add an outside power source to your LNB's as you have a few boxes drawing and if you happen to put turn all of them on, you will have problems.
so i need the dp34 switch and what else? im shopping online for these products as we speak...i would like to get rid of these problems once and for all
i just saw that the dp34 is one of those switches that i have to go back up on the house again? i thought i would need just a piece that can give me signal from one wire in my room to 2 receivers...some splitter or something
Now you've completely lost me! You have the diseqc switch for the pansats and you want to connect a regular receiver as well? You'll need to run a separet line from the LNB for that receiver since you can't use the diseqc switch for it.
well since i have 4 pansats throughout the house and i wanted to get 2 more...i was told to run a 4x8 diseqc switch
my issue is only one of the rooms...the other pansats are working 100% fine in my room, im trying to run the regular pansat + a GLOBECAST RECEIVER and i only have one wire coming into the room from the roof where the satellite is..if i put that wire in the back of the pansat, i catch DISH 110-DISH 119 - AND GLOBECAST (but since the globecast bin is not out yet, i catch 10% of globecast channels because the rest say BAD OR SCRAMBLED CHANNEL...so my point is that i have signal on all 3 LNBs...dishh 110, 119 and the GC
if i dont use the pansat and choose to use my globecast receiver which i catch all the GC channels, once again everything is fine..i have signal abd everything is fine
problem is, i cannot sit there and unscrew the cable from one receiver, and put it to the other receiver everytime i want to watch tv,,,i just need to use both the pansat box and the GC box simultaneously...thats why i thought the satellite splitter will alow both receivers to get signal from the satellite dish on the roof...with the splitter, the GC works fine is the pansat is OFF, but if i try to watch my DN on pansat, my signal is spotty...i can watch, then i lose signal...then i have signal again, then i lose it again...
what a pain in the A$S this whole setup is...im in over my head
thanks again and sorry to put you through all this BS
only if i knew what that means...im not as advanced as you guys..all i know is that my satellite splitter idea backfired where would i purchase this a/b switch from LK?
