Please Help, HD dvr problem

[DIGGER]

Originaly had 2LNB dish which fed a splitter in the garage which in turn fed 4 standard receivers and 1 standard DVR. Finished the basement and wanted HD so I called Directv and they cahnged the dish to 5LNB. The tech ran 2 wires directly to the HD DVR and 2 wires to the original splitter. Now comes the problem, I changed the standard DVR to HD yesterday and ran a second wire from the splitter to it but it does not receive any HD channels. Is there something that I am doing wrong? I think I know where this is going, a swm, but the wires running to the HD DVR in the basement can't be accessed after the enter the house. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[WK-Michael]

It's just the wrong multiswitch. It's probably a 3x8, which doesn't support HD.

If you get a SWM, you can run two wires from the legacy port to your old switch, and then run one SWM wire to each HD DVR.

http://www.weaknees.com/swm

[DIGGER]

Is there a multiswitch I can replace it with that will support HD and standard without havig to go to a swm?

[WK-Jeff]

The 6x8 is compatible with a 5lnb dish:

http://www.weaknees.com/directv-multiswitch.php

[DIGGER]

Do all 4 wires need to feed it or can I get away with 2?

[ebmsjml]

Originally Posted by DIGGER

Do all 4 wires need to feed it or can I get away with 2?

you need to run all 4 lines from the dish to it ... then distribute from there...

you will have a total of 8 lines out ...