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We are just getting ready to wire our retreat/future retirement house and learned yesterday about SWM from our installer.
I would really appreciate feedback as to the best way to wire a dish system from scratch. Completely new to satellite--we've had cable available everywhere else we've lived.
Everything is wide open, so there's no limit to access. We've already run conduit to the location where the 20' tower will go for the dish--the run to the central location in the house is about 125'.
Layout: main house will have up to maximum 6 HD TVs and need individual room control over each. A separate apartment over the detached garage will have another HDTV--that can be fed either thru the main house, direct from the same dish, or from another, dedicated dish.
I've heard about DirecTV's option where two sets can share one control box, but wd prefer each TV to function independently in each room--no rf signals to try to control between rooms.
Perhaps we'll have one DVR. But mostly, we're looking for excellent service of HD signals to each TV plus capability for any future enhancements.
Installer has given us the following options
1) SWM--1 feed (125') into the main house and split all 7 TVS off that (6 locations ea within 50', the garage location another 100').
2) 4 feeds off one dish, all going to one central splitter that would split to (I think) up to 8 or more TVs. (Lengths same)
3) Two dishes--one would directly service the apartment above the garage--and reduce the run to 125' b/c it will not have to go thru house. But I'm not sure if that setup will require a separate account (prefer to keep everything as one account).
And there's the question of provider--is one better than the other? I know we can get DirecTV, but there are a cpl other, newer companies that are also available. Will we get local channels thru dish provider, or need another antenna on top of the tower?
Thank you for helping me sort this out. --Mark
I would really appreciate feedback as to the best way to wire a dish system from scratch. Completely new to satellite--we've had cable available everywhere else we've lived.
Everything is wide open, so there's no limit to access. We've already run conduit to the location where the 20' tower will go for the dish--the run to the central location in the house is about 125'.
Layout: main house will have up to maximum 6 HD TVs and need individual room control over each. A separate apartment over the detached garage will have another HDTV--that can be fed either thru the main house, direct from the same dish, or from another, dedicated dish.
I've heard about DirecTV's option where two sets can share one control box, but wd prefer each TV to function independently in each room--no rf signals to try to control between rooms.
Perhaps we'll have one DVR. But mostly, we're looking for excellent service of HD signals to each TV plus capability for any future enhancements.
Installer has given us the following options
1) SWM--1 feed (125') into the main house and split all 7 TVS off that (6 locations ea within 50', the garage location another 100').
2) 4 feeds off one dish, all going to one central splitter that would split to (I think) up to 8 or more TVs. (Lengths same)
3) Two dishes--one would directly service the apartment above the garage--and reduce the run to 125' b/c it will not have to go thru house. But I'm not sure if that setup will require a separate account (prefer to keep everything as one account).
And there's the question of provider--is one better than the other? I know we can get DirecTV, but there are a cpl other, newer companies that are also available. Will we get local channels thru dish provider, or need another antenna on top of the tower?
Thank you for helping me sort this out. --Mark
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