Number of wires from Dish to house for install

[jwalkermed]

About to move into a new house. Each room is wired for cable. Assume it's RG6 because the house isn't too old. Curious how many wires have to run from the dish into the attic (the central hub for the cable wires in the house)? And how do they typically get the wires into the attic from the dish? The wires already going into my house from the outside will be used for internet via TWC. Sorry about all the question, just never had satellite before.

This is kind of silly but it does matter to me because I don't want a ton of wires running on the outside of my house. I think I read Direct tv has a single wire to some sort of splitter which is less evil. And then I could alway go with TWC who had wires going into the house at the time it was built.

My setup for dish would be 1 hopper and 2 joeys if that makes a difference.

 

[agentc13]

One or two lines in, depending on whether they use a tap or not. As to how it goes in when they run new lines, well it depends on the tech.
For a Hopper they are supposed to be 3ghz rg6. So hopefully that's what you have.

 

[KazooGuy]

A single hopper setup would need two wires running from the outside in, depending on where you place your dual node in relationship to where the dish is located. If they are both next to each other than the node could be outside and only a single wire would be run inside.

 

[navychop]

And if you want 2 Hoppers and zero Joeys, and actually get such installed, and outside node mount would be 3 coax from the dish to the duo node, and two wired out to go inside to go to the Hoppers. Or you could move the duo node inside, with three wired entering to go to the node, and from that node you can service 2 Hoppers and two or more Joeys, one coax per. Taps may change the # of coax at any one location.

 

[jwalkermed]

Thanks guys. Good info.

 

[Claude Greiner]

If your running new cable, run 4 or 5 wires.

5th cable is for OTA

 

[navychop]

What conceivable use would there be for so many wires?

OP- Claude has an axe to grind against Dish. It clouds his judgement.

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[whatchel1]

What conceivable use would there be for so many wires?

OP- Claude has an axe to grind against Dish. It clouds his judgement.

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Claude was figuring it so he would've made more money.

 

[Claude Greiner]

If you got the oppertunity to run new wire, might as well run 5 cables for all possible configurations with Dish or Directv. You may want 3 hoppers with an international channels, or want more than 8 Tuners on Directv.

If you can run the wire now, run it. Rg6 cable is cheap, and its no big issue to pull 3 cables vs 5 cables. Cutting out drywall and having to refish cables later is a pain in the butt later.

No ax to grind with Dish in this thread, but I still do believe they are a bad company to do business with.

 

[JimWH]

When I moved into my house 12 years ago there was no Joey or Hopper. The house was pre-wired with a cable line in each room. They started from a cable box on the outside of the house. WhenI had DISH installed I had two lines from the antenna connected to two of these lines. I have basic cable because it comes with my internet connection and DISH is multiplexed on two lines. At the TV I have two feeds from the wall, one to the DISH box and one to the TV.

 

[Stargazer]

4 wires rated RG-6 3000 MHZ (3 GHZ) or greater should make you future proof. If you need additional wires say for OTA then you can put a diplexor on it but probably won't be needed. I would say run an ethernet wire while your at it too seeing how there could be newer configurations with ethernet lnb's in the future but it's hard to tell what they will do in the future.

 

[jwalkermed]

Well this home I'm moving into is 5 yrs old. No ethernet so I'm going to run it if I can. Haven't been able to get in the attic yet to see if it's feasible. I hope the existing coax wire is good enough. Don't really want to mess with it.

 

[Smwoodward]

Well this home I'm moving into is 5 yrs old. No ethernet so I'm going to run it if I can. Haven't been able to get in the attic yet to see if it's feasible. I hope the existing coax wire is good enough. Don't really want to mess with it.

I would either look on it and find out or get it tested to see if it will handle the bandwidth otherwise I would replace it at the same time you run cat6

 

[Stargazer]

Or just leave the existing coax and run another line next to it.