Help with dish 500 twin and adding IRDs

[dRaNo]

Ok here's my problem. I have a dish 500 twin (aims at 110& 119 and has the sw21 switch built into the lnb's). This only has outputs for 2 receivers. I want to add a 3rd IRD onto my dish. What switch would I need, or would I have to replace my LNB head? Any help is appreciated.




dRaNo

[dRaNo]

Ok, I called dish and they told me that adding an sw44 switch to the 500 twin will work. I've found that dish reps are idiots most times, and would like someone to confirm that this will work before I order the switch. My main concern is that with the 500 twin LNB, the sw21 switches are built in and can't be bypassed, this means that straight out of the dish the 110 and 119 are already combined before entering the sw44. Will the sw44 be able to split the sig to 4 IRD's without a problem?

[JT]

Does your dish have two dual out lnb's right next to each other, with an external switch, or is it a one piece jobby with the switch incorperated? When you do switch check, exactly what lnb does your receiver tell you you have, 500 twin? You want a lnb that will ID as 500 Quad. Sounds like you have the one piece lnb with the SW42 switch incorperated. You can not add another switch after this.....accept an SW21 to incorperate a third sat. This is called cascading and the installation get's confusing when your doing this. Save that discussion for another time. ...

My advice is to go out on fleabay and buy yourself a Quad legacy LNB. (one piece with SW44 integrated) It will cost you about the same (~$50) as the SW44 switch alone. There are older versions of legacy lnb's, and then there are newer versions that have the swith incorperated just like the DP lnb's do. Only difference is the legacy models dont' have the black DP written on them. I doubt very much your average phone support techie at DishNet knows anything about all the different lnb types out there. Doesn't sound like he understood what you were asking to me. Course, I may have got it wrong too.

[dRaNo]

I'm gonna get the legacy quad LNB, sounds like the easy way to go, no messing w/switches.


Thanks JT