Question about dish installation

I am think about to switch to satellite TV? But I have concerns about
the installation of dish and wire. Looks like they will drill many
hole in my house to get the wire connected to the every rooms I want
to put a TV? Is it a big deal? I think nobody wants so many holes drilled
in the wall.

Thanks in advance.

Halbert wrote:

I am think about to switch to satellite TV? But I have concerns about
the installation of dish and wire. Looks like they will drill many
hole in my house to get the wire connected to the every rooms I want
to put a TV? Is it a big deal? I think nobody wants so many holes drilled
in the wall.

Thanks in advance.

Do you already have cable installed? They may be able to use that.
(But not always.)

On 18 Jun 2004 23:38:41 -0700, (Halbert)
wrote:

I am think about to switch to satellite TV? But I have concerns about
the installation of dish and wire. Looks like they will drill many
hole in my house to get the wire connected to the every rooms I want
to put a TV? Is it a big deal? I think nobody wants so many holes drilled
in the wall.

Thanks in advance.

It really depends on your house... in my case, I have DirecTV in 4
rooms, and no holes were drilled at all. The two cables from the dish
come down from the chimney mount and loop under the eves. The eves
have ventilation holes (screened ) and he simply fed the cables in
through one of these, and into the attic. From there, the cables go
through a switch and 4 leads come out, and go to the four separate
locations. (actually, a bit more ocmplicated than that, since I have
TiVO in one room... I have 2 leads into that room, and from there, a
lead goes to 2 of the 4 locations, so I can watch TiVO in 3 rooms.)

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

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Halbert wrote:
I am think about to switch to satellite TV? But I have concerns about
the installation of dish and wire. Looks like they will drill many
hole in my house to get the wire connected to the every rooms I want
to put a TV? Is it a big deal? I think nobody wants so many holes drilled
in the wall.

Do you mean the external wall or the internal ones? Once the wires
have been run under the house, they can be brought up into individual
rooms through a nice neat wall plate. Just like eletrical wall plates,
but with round cutouts for coaxial cable. It's permanent and it looks
fine.


Patty

Halbert wrote:

I am think about to switch to satellite TV? But I have concerns about
the installation of dish and wire. Looks like they will drill many
hole in my house to get the wire connected to the every rooms I want
to put a TV? Is it a big deal? I think nobody wants so many holes drilled
in the wall.

Thanks in advance.

It really depends upon the house and the installer. Some installers
like to run the cable around the house and drill through walls because
it's the easiest. But you should try to understand what works for your
house and talk with your installer about what you want to see. If
they refuse to do what you want, they you may wish to see if you can
find a different installer.

Thank all of you very much.

Another question, I noticed we have a cable box on outside of exteranl wall.
Can we use it to connect to the dish instead of drilling a hole the get
the cable into house? But I found my neighbor actually drilled a hole.

Halbert wrote:

Thank all of you very much.

Another question, I noticed we have a cable box on outside of exteranl wall.
Can we use it to connect to the dish instead of drilling a hole the get
the cable into house? But I found my neighbor actually drilled a hole.

Only if the cable is RG-6 (not the thinner RG-59), and if it goes to where
you need it to go, without any splitters along the way.

Thanks very much for the professinal answers. Zoyburg

Zoyburg wrote:
Halbert wrote:

Thank all of you very much.

Another question, I noticed we have a cable box on outside of exteranl wall.
Can we use it to connect to the dish instead of drilling a hole the get
the cable into house? But I found my neighbor actually drilled a hole.

Only if the cable is RG-6 (not the thinner RG-59), and if it goes to where
you need it to go, without any splitters along the way.

I don't think the RG-6 verses RG59 is so important. A splitter actually
doesn't matter for one receiver, but won't work for multiple recievers.

If there is a splitter on the existing cable, a satellite multiswitch could
be installed in that spot, using existing cabling to the other rooms, if
there is only one splitter. I had to run another cable for the dual-input
DTivo.


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5