RG 59 Prewire

[jason851]

A friend of mine is moving into his new house in a few weeks.He has the Dish network.I'm not familiar with Satelite TV, but I think he has a problem.The whole house is prewired with RG59 coax and all jacks are looped in series.Is there any way this thing can work.This house was recently renovated.Thanks

 

[Liquidforce88]

Yeah run all new wire.

 

[goaliebob99]

unfortunatly if he doesnt run new wire it will not work.. You need to use a minimal of RG 6 for it to work correctly.

 

[korsjs]

welcome to the site jason851. glad you are here.

 

[Tom in TX]

You need to use a minimal of RG 6 for it to work correctly.

I have been running a 508 on RG59 for years with no troubles. However, RG6 would be better, I agree.
Tom in TX

 

[jason851]

I have been running a 508 on RG59 for years with no troubles. However, RG6 would be better, I agree.
Tom in TX

What is a 508?

 

[Mike500]

What is a 508?

A Dish Network receiver with DVR.

 

[webbydude]

As an alltime last resort will I use RG59. And even then, I will use only Legacy LNB's instead of DP. The Legacy requirements aren't as strict as DP.

 

[boy921]

Length = voltage loss. E* equipment needs correct voltage. If you use the RG59, expect bazaar behavior with the equipment especially if there are long lengths of cable. I found that just one short piece of RG59 (25ft.) between my switch and 501 (and 510) DVR caused the HD to fail in power-up and it caused data loss with some channels and with EPG information.

 

[ken]

I think everyone missed something, I think he said (in series) . Unless I misunderstood , it won't work. Try putting a UHF system at the headend of the cabling then use the RG59 to distribute via a modulator (or ch3 RF out).

 

[rcbridge]

What do you mean by looped in series??
I don't understand anyone doing that! Besides that how long are the runs of cable, yes RG-59 will have more loss than rg-6 but again how long are the runs?
Give more detail about that series wiring!!

 

[wobbie]

I'm giuessing by looped in in series you are referring to anoither term "daisy chained"" how many outlets are in the house and how many and what type of receivers does yoyur friend have. There is always the posibility of putting a receiver in the basement to feed the TVs if the cable is ran down there.

 

[webbydude]

Irregardless of how it's looped, Ken is right. Just centrally locate the receivers and feed the output to the RG59. Even if you have to reverse a splitter (TV 1 and TV 2 to the outputs of a splitter and the splitter input to your, presumably, one feed in the basement), it will still work. Just tune one TV to channel 3 and the other to 60(antenna) or 73(cable)

 

[goaliebob99]

if there dasy chained in the attic you could put the recivers up there but that might cause problems with extreme heat and cold...

 

[jason851]

What do you mean by looped in series??
I don't understand anyone doing that! Besides that how long are the runs of cable, yes RG-59 will have more loss than rg-6 but again how long are the runs?
Give more detail about that series wiring!!

He has two receivers,two feeds into the house,main and basement.One Rg59
is going around the floor.Kitchen,LR,MBR,BR.Same thing in the basement three
outlets there.All together both feeds about 100 feet

 

[rcbridge]

It sounds like the looped portion of the set up is carrying the demodulated signal (after the STB) to feed additional sets on channel 3 or 4, if this is the case it will be fine. I would assume when the STB were installed the installer used rg-6 for that!!

 

[new_to_hdtv]

if there dasy chained in the attic you could put the recivers up there...

Ya......that'd be real convenient when (not if) he needed to reboot them.