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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bibi bear" data-source="post: 6166">I'm researching an installation project for my residence : a 5-story building where each of the three addresses (yes, the building has a nice long flat roof with plenty of "chiminies") contains 10 apartments - so we're talking about 30 appartements (less me and any others who choose to have their own dish SO LET'S SAY A FINAL OF 24 apartements (which by no coincidence is divisible by 4) to be hooked up.They each want only one cable arriving to their flat which they would plug into a receiver to give them both the TPS and the Canal+/Sat bouquets (packages) - this means HotBird(13°) and Astra(19.2°).Now I'm thinking 6 dishes wherein each would possess two what-do-u-call-them "Quattro" LNBs (which I understand to be four independent LNBs in one casing) offset in a 6° separation holder/rings.  But (and in looking at the situation one dish at a time) this gives me 8 cables which I'd like to reduce to one or two (up there on the roof) before I stick it down one of the stairway chutes whereafter I would expand it to the 8 cables again.QUES - [looking at one (just the Astra) LNB's group of four cables at a time] If I use one of those 4-into-1 special satellite "splitters" up there on the roof and then "unsplit" and expand the 1-into-4 on the middle floor I believe that 4 apartements/receivers can independently select their own Canal+/Sat channel, n'est-ce pas?  Believing this to be true (and copying this procedure for the HotBird LN<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />- I now am confronted once again with the problem of reducing two cables (originating from different LNBs) down to one cable  - Do I just use another 2-into-1 "splitter" ?Will each DiSEqC receiver be able to independently select whatever TPS/CanalSat channel he wants?Note: I talk about putting up separate dishes, as opposed to a truely collective dish bec 1)there may only be 12 or 16 apartements that'll have an interest and so we can just get up there tomorrow and do it ourselves 2)a collective dish probably would be more expensive and I'm quite sure that it's more complicated and it would probably require a vote who's passage would be doubtful as the residence includes another similar size building.So please give me your feedback and please educate me as to proper terminology - THANK YOUbibi</blockquote>

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