DISH cabling for an apartment

[digiblur]

I seriously doubt that every TV outlet in the complex has a coax that is home runned to a single point. That means that there are probably a ton of splitters all over the place. Cable TV can work easily with that configuration. Satellite TV will not. It has to have a single coax to every receiver all the way back to the LNB/Switch.... You are SOL...

Not with Directv swm it is wired much like cable TV. One wire to the dish with splitters to the receivers.

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[Tyralak]

I seriously doubt that every TV outlet in the complex has a coax that is home runned to a single point. That means that there are probably a ton of splitters all over the place. Cable TV can work easily with that configuration. Satellite TV will not. It has to have a single coax to every receiver all the way back to the LNB/Switch.... You are SOL...

No, that is incorrect. They usually have home runs to an ON-Q panel in a closet with a single feed going to a headend room, or less frequently you will find home runs from each outlet to a headend room. Depends on the size and style of apartment complex. Occasionally you'll find ghetto-fabulous wiring where they daisy chain runs together with taps, but not terribly often. Again, more information about the complex is required from OP.