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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 1285" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>It depends on how he hooked you up.</p><p>If he used poor cable, or the cable is too long, etc then you will in any case suffer signal loss before it gets to your receiver.</p><p>If he has hooked up multiple parties then the consequences for you depend on how he has achieved that. The fact is you will each need to be able to independently select the different frequency-bands and polarisations offered by the LNB (the "head" you referred to, I think). Otherwise you get a problem when the parties all want to watch different things. Imagine you need to watch a channel that happens to be vertically polarised, but your neighbour a channel that happens to be horizontally polarised. A normal LNB can only be in one state at once - so one of you will not get a picture.</p><p>The solutions to this vary. One is to have an LNB which offers multiple independent outlets, one per attached tuner. Another approach is to use an LNB with independent outlets for vertical & horizontal & low-band & high-band, all fed into a switch box which accepts multiple inputs from the various tuners and directs them accordingly. </p><p>In any event, if your landlord isn't knowledgable in this area and has simply tapped into an existing feed from a normal LNB then you will have problems. </p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 1285, member: 174998"] It depends on how he hooked you up. If he used poor cable, or the cable is too long, etc then you will in any case suffer signal loss before it gets to your receiver. If he has hooked up multiple parties then the consequences for you depend on how he has achieved that. The fact is you will each need to be able to independently select the different frequency-bands and polarisations offered by the LNB (the "head" you referred to, I think). Otherwise you get a problem when the parties all want to watch different things. Imagine you need to watch a channel that happens to be vertically polarised, but your neighbour a channel that happens to be horizontally polarised. A normal LNB can only be in one state at once - so one of you will not get a picture. The solutions to this vary. One is to have an LNB which offers multiple independent outlets, one per attached tuner. Another approach is to use an LNB with independent outlets for vertical & horizontal & low-band & high-band, all fed into a switch box which accepts multiple inputs from the various tuners and directs them accordingly. In any event, if your landlord isn't knowledgable in this area and has simply tapped into an existing feed from a normal LNB then you will have problems. 2old [/QUOTE]
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