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Originally Posted by Stare At The Sun
So, you guys are talking about a box and such, yeah, we don't have a box, just a standard hookup in the wall.
I assume the box is somewhere at the apartment leasing office or something.
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So you have a coaxial cable coming in to your apartment or dorm, no box (reciever) and you're able to get a number of channels, right?
If this is the case the people running your complex have a mutli-unit commercial switch box somewhere that's feeding your unit. Other terminology might apply here, haven't messed with an animal like this in well over 5 years. If this is the case you need to do all the steps listed, but you need to get to that switch. It's going to look something like this:
http://www.bestwaysatellite.com/inc/sdetail/6371
Have you discussed the issue with the property manager(s)? "Snow" to me really says bad connection between you and that switching unit. That or some other interference- back to piles of coaxial, near 110w outlet etc...
You might check for answer here as well:
http://www.dbstalk.com/
(Not trying to site plug, I have no investment in these sites. Just trying to point someone to answers.)
These folks have been able to talk me through a ton of issue just in the past 9 months. Pretty sure you have to "join" to ask Q's, but it's free and the folks there know their stuff.