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I have some questions about retro-fitting my houses with new cable plant.
I am selling one house and living in the other. One house is in Maryland,
the other house is in Las Vegas.
Either way, I want to support two things:
HD-Cable TV (how ever received)
Satellite TV
For HD-Cable TV, I need to support Comcast, Cox Cable, Verizon FIOS TV, and Century Link Fibre Optic TV if and when Century Link
As I understand it a wire plant suitable for HD-Cable TV will support Fibre Optic delivered TV as
there is an optical service to Coax service box that Verizon uses where they deliver TV over FIOS. Likewise an HD Cable plant will support cable modems, Comcast, RCN, and Cox.
I have some experience with cable plant for Satellite TV as well. Free to Air is big in Europe. We have FTA in Portugal in our apartment. We have two receivers and two dishes. The trick is both our dishes point East. One dish points at one satellite or bird. The other dish is aimed between two satellites or birds. This means we have three feed horns with multiple outputs. Each receiver "knows" which channel is on which satellite and uses a switching thingy called a 4 x DesQ to switch between feed horns. We could also add a FTA dish pointing at a satellite West of us and add it to the fourth tap on the switch. Maybe this winter.
I have a number of questions: 1) can a cable plant here in the USA that supports FTA also serve to support either Dish Network or Direct TV, assuming that the satellite dishes were otherwise properly aimed and wired? 2) The DesQ thingys seem to have two upstream
components: power for the switching system and a selection signal, i.e. which of the four ports (or 8 ports) to switch in to the feed wire. I assume this preculdes use of splitters, taps, and the like otherwise two different receivers would "compete" for switch control on the same line. Reasoning through that, it would appear that for wiring the houses, I need two sets of cable plant, one simpler plant (which could have splitters or taps) for the HD-Cable TV and one slightly more complex plant supporting DesQ for the satellite and a jack scheme in each room that would have a satellite port and a HD-Cable TV port. My idea here is that in the house I am selling I want my (eventual) buyer to be able to subscribe to HD-Cable or Dish Network or DirectTV or use FTA and have the option to use the "normal" cable company (whatever that is these days) or satellite.
My plan for Las Vegas is to be able to have one or two rooms with "steerable" FTA and HD-Cable in those rooms and in the rest of the house.
For both houses my working assumption now is that I cannot overlay HD Cable TV and
satellite tv (of any flavour) on the same wire but that I need a distinct cable plant for each.
Thoughts, comments, advise, anyone?
Cheers
Chris-Do-Algarve
I have some questions about retro-fitting my houses with new cable plant.
I am selling one house and living in the other. One house is in Maryland,
the other house is in Las Vegas.
Either way, I want to support two things:
HD-Cable TV (how ever received)
Satellite TV
For HD-Cable TV, I need to support Comcast, Cox Cable, Verizon FIOS TV, and Century Link Fibre Optic TV if and when Century Link
As I understand it a wire plant suitable for HD-Cable TV will support Fibre Optic delivered TV as
there is an optical service to Coax service box that Verizon uses where they deliver TV over FIOS. Likewise an HD Cable plant will support cable modems, Comcast, RCN, and Cox.
I have some experience with cable plant for Satellite TV as well. Free to Air is big in Europe. We have FTA in Portugal in our apartment. We have two receivers and two dishes. The trick is both our dishes point East. One dish points at one satellite or bird. The other dish is aimed between two satellites or birds. This means we have three feed horns with multiple outputs. Each receiver "knows" which channel is on which satellite and uses a switching thingy called a 4 x DesQ to switch between feed horns. We could also add a FTA dish pointing at a satellite West of us and add it to the fourth tap on the switch. Maybe this winter.
I have a number of questions: 1) can a cable plant here in the USA that supports FTA also serve to support either Dish Network or Direct TV, assuming that the satellite dishes were otherwise properly aimed and wired? 2) The DesQ thingys seem to have two upstream
components: power for the switching system and a selection signal, i.e. which of the four ports (or 8 ports) to switch in to the feed wire. I assume this preculdes use of splitters, taps, and the like otherwise two different receivers would "compete" for switch control on the same line. Reasoning through that, it would appear that for wiring the houses, I need two sets of cable plant, one simpler plant (which could have splitters or taps) for the HD-Cable TV and one slightly more complex plant supporting DesQ for the satellite and a jack scheme in each room that would have a satellite port and a HD-Cable TV port. My idea here is that in the house I am selling I want my (eventual) buyer to be able to subscribe to HD-Cable or Dish Network or DirectTV or use FTA and have the option to use the "normal" cable company (whatever that is these days) or satellite.
My plan for Las Vegas is to be able to have one or two rooms with "steerable" FTA and HD-Cable in those rooms and in the rest of the house.
For both houses my working assumption now is that I cannot overlay HD Cable TV and
satellite tv (of any flavour) on the same wire but that I need a distinct cable plant for each.
Thoughts, comments, advise, anyone?
Cheers
Chris-Do-Algarve
