How many direct TV receivers do I need for 3 rooms?

Direct TV CAT5?

• I really need some help. If you could give me some advice it would be great. I have a Direct TV reciever, it runs to a Direct tv DVR and a plain Direct TV reciever upstairs that is combined with a TIVO series 2. A year ago we purchased 5 Tivo 2's so we could wirelessly pass Tivo'ed shows to 3 of our childrens rooms via wireless network. Only 2 rooms could be accessed at a time, we purchased 2 boosters - still no help. We then went local cable (COX) and set up the other rooms, but it became costly and we like NFL ticket. So we decided to run CAT 5 through the entire house, and two of the kids rooms have Cat 5 but 1 has nothing, not even phone line. We were told by TIVO that all could link wireless, we were also told if some are on CAT5 the one that wasn't hooked up could then be accessed wirelessly - not so. Now we have 5 TIVO's not being used, 1 Direct TV dish, and wired CAT5 throughout the house. We are about to hire a very experienced technical person to hook us up, but he needs to know what we want. He can run CAT5 and phone to the bedroom not working, but we don't know if running DIRECT TV through all rooms with individual DTV boxes is the best or if we can somehow use our TIVO's we spent so much money on? Any suggestions?

• Answer:

  I have TIVO also. You should be able to run two TVs off on TIVO . You just have to run a cable from the second TV. I would think it would be cheaper. i also have DirecTV instead of regular cable. Hope this helps.