I'm a residential and commercial dealer of DirecTV and have a few questions concerning an MDU hookup that our account managers and technical team were unable to answer/confirm. I'm hoping someone here has some professional insight, or can point me in the direction of the right people to ask while I wait and wait for a callback from our technical departments.
Here is the situation:
My company is being sought after to provide DirecTV installations on a building in my downtown city area. The contracting company who owns the building will be selling off each condo individually when they are finished. They want the building wired solely for DirecTV, but they -do not- plan on treating it as a normal MDU. This means they will be managing the property, but they're not going to be responsible for operating or managing a single DirecTV account that provides for everyone in the building via monthly fees. Each condo owner will be responsible for their own contract/install with DirecTV through my dealership or national. All they want is the building wired and fully setup for DirecTV, nothing more.
With the final release of the Genie software and the C31 clients, I want to make sure I provide full capabilities to each condo unit so they do not miss out on anything DirecTV has to offer if they choose to sign-up.
Building Layout:
- 7 storeys with the top 4 floors being residential, bottom 3 being commercial. (We're installing a separate dish/wiring and dropping lines for the bottom 3 commercial floors for future use, but that's the extent of it - so not
part of the issue)
- 5 condo units per floor for a total of 20 with each unit having 3-5 total homerun outlets to a communication box inside condo's own communication room
- 1 line from each condos communication room that deadend at a private electrical room on each floor (Each electrical room is directly above the next with open conduits between all floors)
- Building is roughly 55x55ft and the top 4 floors being 60ft tall. (So the single longest run from dish to a receiver would be around 100ft)
These are my initial thoughts/plans and wanted to get some confirmation and make sure it's the right kind of setup to allow Genie, C31's, etc. to function properly so each condo/customer can utilize their own networks, etc.
1. SL5 dish, both additional dishes for internationals on roof with 6 lines dropped into electrical room of the top floor.
2. Lines into a PI-6S then to a SA-6AL to keep the flow strong
3. Have an MST-771 cascaded down to each floor that is wired into an FMC-6 with a SWM8 for each condo unit on each of the floors
4. 8-way splitters in each condo's communication room so each unit has a max of 8 tuners to play with
Two basic questions is will this setup accomplish what it needs to accomplish, is it correct. The last time we did a major setup was before SWM was around. Is there another kind of setup I can use that would be more beneficial or 'desired'?
Thanks much in advance.
Here is the situation:
My company is being sought after to provide DirecTV installations on a building in my downtown city area. The contracting company who owns the building will be selling off each condo individually when they are finished. They want the building wired solely for DirecTV, but they -do not- plan on treating it as a normal MDU. This means they will be managing the property, but they're not going to be responsible for operating or managing a single DirecTV account that provides for everyone in the building via monthly fees. Each condo owner will be responsible for their own contract/install with DirecTV through my dealership or national. All they want is the building wired and fully setup for DirecTV, nothing more.
With the final release of the Genie software and the C31 clients, I want to make sure I provide full capabilities to each condo unit so they do not miss out on anything DirecTV has to offer if they choose to sign-up.
Building Layout:
- 7 storeys with the top 4 floors being residential, bottom 3 being commercial. (We're installing a separate dish/wiring and dropping lines for the bottom 3 commercial floors for future use, but that's the extent of it - so not
part of the issue)
- 5 condo units per floor for a total of 20 with each unit having 3-5 total homerun outlets to a communication box inside condo's own communication room
- 1 line from each condos communication room that deadend at a private electrical room on each floor (Each electrical room is directly above the next with open conduits between all floors)
- Building is roughly 55x55ft and the top 4 floors being 60ft tall. (So the single longest run from dish to a receiver would be around 100ft)
These are my initial thoughts/plans and wanted to get some confirmation and make sure it's the right kind of setup to allow Genie, C31's, etc. to function properly so each condo/customer can utilize their own networks, etc.
1. SL5 dish, both additional dishes for internationals on roof with 6 lines dropped into electrical room of the top floor.
2. Lines into a PI-6S then to a SA-6AL to keep the flow strong
3. Have an MST-771 cascaded down to each floor that is wired into an FMC-6 with a SWM8 for each condo unit on each of the floors
4. 8-way splitters in each condo's communication room so each unit has a max of 8 tuners to play with
Two basic questions is will this setup accomplish what it needs to accomplish, is it correct. The last time we did a major setup was before SWM was around. Is there another kind of setup I can use that would be more beneficial or 'desired'?
Thanks much in advance.
