Obsolescence...want advice...pity...and I guess ridicule

[epeters]

When my house was built 4+ years ago it was improperly wired for the future and had only 2 RG-6 cables coming through the roof to a central "A/V" closet. I have two rg-6 cables home-runned from each room to this closet. In an effort to eliminate wires cascading down the sides of my new house, I adopted an expensive solution to bring the signal from a 3-lnb dish down two lines instead of the usual 4. the solution was the SonoraDesign satellite router and accompanying dish:

Link to Sonora Design Router (http://www.sonoradesign.com/dtvsystemspages/dtvsystems_terrouters_tsat86al.html)

Well now with the 5-lnb dish a reality, I have no solution to keep the outside of my house wire-free. It doesn't appear yet that there is a router solution for the 5-lnb dish yet. Here are my options:

1) Perforate the roof with a new roof jack conduit immediately above the A/V closet and drop new lines.

2) String new RG6 down the side of the house.

3) Be alerted to an alternate solution I'm not yet aware of from a learned member of the Tivo Community Forum

What should it be?

thanks

eric

[bigpuma]

There is a new technology being tested at the moment called single wire multiswitch. That may be an answer for you in the future. You can read more about it at dbstalk here:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=78249

[wolflord11]

The Single Wire Multiswitch would be ideal in your Situation. Directv is currently Beta Testing it. Hopefully soon it will be available to all. :D

[epeters]

The Single Wire Multiswitch would be ideal in your Situation. Directv is currently Beta Testing it. Hopefully soon it will be available to all. :D

Neat technology, but I only have TWO lines coming down from the roof to the A/V closet. All these single-line solutions still need four lines off the dish to the first piece of hardware that they connect to. And any description I find expects that first piece of hardware to be in a weather-safe area (like a garage) I have home runs of two RG-6 cables from each room to this closet so I'm covered there. Looks like a neat solution for folks with only one RG-6 at the end of the line.

[epeters]

Neat technology, but I only have TWO lines coming down from the roof to the A/V closet. All these single-line solutions still need four lines off the dish to the first piece of hardware that they connect to. And any description I find expects that first piece of hardware to be in a weather-safe area (like a garage) I have home runs of two RG-6 cables from each room to this closet so I'm covered there. Looks like a neat solution for folks with only one RG-6 at the end of the line.

My bad...the SWM is weather ready, so it would indeed work (one line in from roof). All I need now is a new dish and that power inserter to power the SWM (probably comes with the SWM).

[bigpuma]

My bad...the SWM is weather ready, so it would indeed work (one line in from roof). All I need now is a new dish and that power inserter to power the SWM (probably comes with the SWM).

Check out the beta testing threads at dbstalk I know a few people have the SWM set up on their roof near the dish. That would probably work for you assuming you don't have too many receivers. Unfortunately I don't think it is available to the general public yet.

[wolflord11]

SWM is still not available to the general public. We were just saying it would be ideal in this situation.

The only other option is to run more lines, as no Router is available for the 5lnb.

[rminsk]

Just hold off on the 5-lnb dish until the SWM becomes available. Even if you do upgrade to the 5-lnb dish you will be able to use your current setup to get the 101, 110, 119 satellites until the SWM becomes available.

[Fezmid]

Any update on this SWM technology?

I read the thread at DBS and I think it'll work for my situation, but I figured I'd ask here.

I have four coax cables from the roof into the basement (through the walls - installed when the house was built). I added an OTA antenna, and am currently diplexing the signal. I can't do that with the 5-LNB dish...

I'm concerned about powering the SWM -- the cables run through the attic, then through some walls. I don't have any electrical outlets in the attic (I suppose I could install one...). Any other solutions other than doing that?

I'm also worried that the thing could overheat, since the attic isn't ventelated.

Of course the other major problem is that I still have two SD TiVos and one HD TiVo -- none of which work with SWM. :(

Thoughts? And any ideas when it's going to be ready for primetime?

[JimSpence]

I'm not sure about the SWM, but power is typically supplied using an additional RG6 cable run to the location. So the power transformer can be in a common closet with the connected low power run to the device.

[Fezmid]

I'm not sure about the SWM, but power is typically supplied using an additional RG6 cable run to the location. So the power transformer can be in a common closet with the connected low power run to the device.
So it's (potentially) possible to have the SWM in the attic, and have it powered by one of the 4 coax cables that run through the house into the basement (even if it's a long run)? So of the four cables, one would be power, one would be OTA, one would be SWM, and one would be for future growth?

That'd be pretty cool if it worked... Whenever SWM comes out :)

[JimSpence]

That's the way I believe it could work. I'll leave the exact details to others.

Do a search on the DBSTalk Forum http://www.dbstalk.com/index.php? for "SWM".

This thread links to PDFs for the SWM.
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=91384&highlight=swm