Can I Split satellite signal to 2 receivers?

Bozacke

I know this is probably a stupid question, but before I make any additional purchases I wanted to confirm the following. I currently have two dishes both feeding to one Receiver via a DiSEqC switch, now if I wanted to feed that signal to 2 receivers can I just use a splitter? I assume the answer is no other wise there wouldn't be a need for dual and quad LNBs, I assume it's because the LNBs need to get their power from the receiver. So even if I wanted to have to adjacent boxes one for recording one channel and the other for watching another channel I'd need to have dual LNBs and two separate wires running and in my case also 2 separate DiSEqC switches? In my case I want to send the signal to another room so am I correct in assuming I'll need both dishes to have dual LNBs (one already does) and have a cable from each of the LNBs to each of the two DiSEqC switch and then run independent cables from each DiSEqC switch to the two TVs??

the_syco

You've lost me some time ago, but I'm writing to tell you to research the splitters. Most will work, but some won't support Sky's "eye", or similair features.

conax

Change that "Dual" to a "twin" or even a quad and your on the ball.

byte

Bozacke wrote:

In my case I want to send the signal to another room so am I correct in assuming I'll need both dishes to have dual LNBs (one already does) and have a cable from each of the LNBs to each of the two DiSEqC switch and then run independent cables from each DiSEqC switch to the two TVs??

Yes, that would be correct.

Bozacke

Thanks for the replies. I kind of figured that sending a signal from one single LNB to 2 Set top boxes was too easy and wouldn't work, but I just wanted to confirm it before I started doing it the other way.

Bozacke

Thanks again, just one more question on this..

Does that mean if you have Sky and want to get a 2nd box you'll also need a dual LNB?

L1011

yes, well, they aren't made for Sky dishes anymore so a quad or octo.