I can't tell you how much I'd appreciate help on this one. It would really make things nicer for my family.

At the moment, I'm trying my hardest to get a room on the second floor of my parents' home hooked up with their satellite service. My goal is to have HD, two-tuner DVR access to that room. I can get ahold of the equipment, but my issue is with getting the signal to reach the room.

The house was wired in '92, with the satellite atop the chimney, the wires running two stories down to the basement, and some wires running two stories back up. When DirecTV started offering HD, the guy who initially did the wiring said that the distance to the top floor rooms might be too far for it, and it appears he was right. However, I think if I have a receiver in the basement simply feeding one of those coax lines, there might be enough amplification to get to the top floor.

I have two questions, then:

1) Might I be right in thinking this? Or would you have other suggestions?

2) If that works, the issue becomes how to control that box. I've seen IR injectors before, but I can't seem to find any. It's just a little inline box on the TV side that takes IR signals from a receiver, and transmits them along with the video through the run to the other end. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any, or I found one where the IR receiver was $89, which seems absurd for a little wire and an IR receiver, not including all the other parts to this little system.

I'm open to other suggestions as well.

Thanks so much for any help you can give. I'm really anxious to get something working here.