Can I share my Dish hardware/programming with my duplex neighbor?
03-23-02, 10:14 PM
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Can I share my Dish hardware/programming with my duplex neighbor?
We live in a duplex, and the couple that share it with us are getting into home theater. He just bought a 65" Mitsu HDTV and asked for my advice for getting hooked up with either Dish Network or DirecTV. I have the Dish 6000 and 2 dishes for pulling in both the SD and HD programming from all 3 birds. My question is, is there any way I can share my hardware or programming with my neighbor if he buys the Dish 6000 reciever, without degrading my signal quality? If so, what would he/I need to do this?
04-04-02, 11:07 AM
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You need to have Dual/Twin/Quad LNBs on the satellites (with a coax connection open) and probably another switch somewhere as well (if the neighbor wants all satellites). Essentially you are just giving up the use of one of your LNBs to him. Then you just have to pay DN for an additional receiver hookup per month ($5) like you had another TV set . I'm not sure if putting your normal signal through a splitter would work (I think DN needs to "See" the receiver and would know) and would also probably be illegal. Although I'm sure giving your spare LNB connection to him would be pushing, if not breaking, the law as well. Just consider yourselves "roommates" with a full wall between!
