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Home Theater Room in new house

Hi, I am in the process of having a new house built, and am going to make the bonus room into a home theater/game room. I plan on having multiple TV's in the room (2-3) so we can watch multiple games (am a big College/NFL football fan). Is there a way to hook up these TVs so that I don't have to hav

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Silent Screams-the last words of hopeless victims of AT&T

Good morning,        My name is Alex and I am not AT&T U-verse customer. Not only am I not a U-verse customer, I have never even inquired for an estimate or home evaluation from AT&T for such services, nor has AT&T contacted me about such offers. I begin by introducing my status as a non-customer be

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remodel house

We did a remodel of our house and moved into the garage during construction. we had the dish and router moved to the garage.we are now ready to move back into the house and need the router moved back into the house  but want to keep the dish on the garage and keep the tv in the garage hooked up.how

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Whole House DVR

I had an installer out at the house today to swap out both of my receivers , he installed (2) HR24/100 HD/DVR receivers...I still cannot get my whole house DVR service to work.  The Status says authorized, No networked DVRs found...any ideas

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building new house

I'm building a new house and want to be able to take advantage of the new whole house DVR and have the wires to all TV's in place before the sheetrock for a hidden installation.  Will I need coax between all of the receivers or just home runs to the DVR location?  Just one wire to each location?  Ca

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whole house HD DVR

I have 3 HR22 HD DVRs and would like to do the whole house HD DVR. I have a gigabit network installed. Is all I have to do it have Direct activate the Whole House system from their end to make it work? Thanks Robert

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No signal to the house

Looking for help. We had a tech come out to the house to set up ATT Uverse in the house. The tech did all the work inside the house, but said that there was no signal in the outside box. He said that he would have to have the engineering department come and fix this. But he wasn't sure when they wou

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New house SWM not detecded

I move to a differnet house my old house had the muliswitch setup slimline dish everything worked great. In the new house they have the SWM setup I have tried setting my reciver HR20 to swith type SWM and it says SWM not detected I have looked at all the wirinng it appears everything is fine so what

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Can I have AT&T wifi on my house even tho someone else on the house has verizon wifi also?

I was wondering if I Can I have AT&T wifi on my house even tho someone else on the house has verizon wifi also? Because I want to have my own wifi router with AT&T and a member of my family already has verizon xfinity

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whole house dvr

I cannot get my second tv to pause live tv or rewind..things like that.I have whole house dvr.I saw something called trickplay but it doesnt tell how to do it.

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Whole House Primer?

Hi  All,Does a "Whole House Primer" exist?I would like a pretty deep understanding of the technology (up to a point) before I pursue.BTW - By deep I am looking to understand what wiring is required, what boxes are required (IE will me current box work?) and a bit more of all of the capablities.Reaso

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Whole House DVR setup

Ok, this is the situation. I wired my whole House (As Dtv's installers suck) myself. My setup to date is as follows:1-HR20-100 HD DVR Box (Wired with Dtv's wireless Internet Rx/Tx...soon to be hard wired to my router)4-HD21-200 HD Boxes1-D11-100  Standard Def BoxI have a 5 LNB Slimline dish and an 8

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Directv in pool house

I am building a pool house that is about 75 feet or so from where the main Directv box is. The pool house will have WiFi not not sure how good the strength will be. We have Hughes-net for our internet provider. What are my options to get Directv to work in the pool house. There will be 1 smart TV in

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Installation on side of house

Can the dish be installed on the side of the house or does it have to be on the roof?

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New house cable install

I am having a new house built, and want to have cable run through out, I can have the electrician install it, but he wants $80.00 times 6 = $480.00 seems high to me. All I need is tv and internet, what is the best way to go now, does AT&T run wire to the house and I run inside the house, do they

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Whole house DVR

I just activated my Whole house dvr today, I did it online.Both receivers show activated but  I get no network dvr found. I have a H21 HD receiver and a HR24 HDVR. My system was installed a few months ago so it is SWM system. What other hardware do I need?

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error 79 on whole house

Our whole house system has never worked correctly.  We have a hr24 and a hr22.  Many tech calls but the swm signal strength has zeros which vary in number of zero readings.  The techs have changed out the hr24 the black box the swm switch.  Any ideas as what to do next? The program from other receiv

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Whole house with HR20/700?

If i were to purchase a HR 24 could I use my current HR20/700 and H20 HD receivers as satellite receivers or would I need to purchase new receivers to get all the benefits of the whole house system?

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Whole House Access Receiver

My whole house access receiver (I only have one in my bedroom) shows that it is on but I am not receiving a picture.  The remote does not work either.  I have tried to reset by unplugging but no success.  Any suggestions?

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adding guest house

I have a freestanding guest house net to the main house (where my primary hookup will be).  It's about 120 ft from the main.  If I were to connect the two with cable, the run would be 150 to 200ft.  I have ordered the Whole Home DVR and additional HD receivers.  Will a hookup from the main system su

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