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DJSADERS · 31-07-2016, 23:10

basically, a hdu is a powered splitter a brief explanation...

A splitter reduces the signal level by a few db depending on how many splits, so a 2-way is rounghly 3.5 - 4db loss, 3-way is 6db loss etc...

A HDU is a powered splitter as in the signal going in is the same as coming out but over 4 connections i.e. no loss

So technically fit a ton of HDU's and you could have as many boxes as you like, but AFAIK the account system only supports 6, i may be wrong though but that is the max i have ever installed in one visit.

Hopefully that makes sense...

31-07-2016, 23:10	#6
DJSADERS Ex - McNicholas Guildford Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Petersfield, Hampshire, UK Age: 34 Services: Sky Q 1TB, 2 x Sky Q Minis, Virgin Media Business Voom Fibre 2 Posts: 314	Re: Set top Boxes basically, a hdu is a powered splitter a brief explanation... A splitter reduces the signal level by a few db depending on how many splits, so a 2-way is rounghly 3.5 - 4db loss, 3-way is 6db loss etc... A HDU is a powered splitter as in the signal going in is the same as coming out but over 4 connections i.e. no loss So technically fit a ton of HDU's and you could have as many boxes as you like, but AFAIK the account system only supports 6, i may be wrong though but that is the max i have ever installed in one visit. Hopefully that makes sense...