My house was wired for cable to 3 rooms back in the late 80s when it was built, so I assume that's RG59. When I bought the house a few years ago, I had Dish installed and had another coax line run to the master bedroom for the TV2 feed, since I was already using the existing coax run to the bedroom for my HSI. I hope that when the installer made that run, he used RG6, as that would probably be my only RG6 coax going into my house. Stupid question time...how can I tell what kind of cable it is by visual inspection? I know little about RG6/RG59 except that I will need RG6 for the connection to the Hopper if/when I get it.
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Came home for lunch, took a quick peek at the cable...while most of it was painted over, I did make out "3 GHz", so I believe I'm good to go there. I won't mind having the Hopper in the master bedroom as opposed to the living room where my receiver is now.
Only issue some folks will have with a Hopper rather than a Joey in the master bedroom is the noise of the harddrive. Dish will be doing downloads all night long.
I think the fan would be louder than the harddrive, but I get your point.
As long as the sound isn't a vibration noise coming from the fan or the chassis, a little white noise wouldn't hurt.
From the diagrams in the spec sheet post, Joey connections can use RG-59. It's only connections to Hoppers (and of course the dish(es)) that require RG-6. I assume that's because Hopper(s) still need to power the dish electronics, and also MoCA has lower bandwidth than the dish signals.
I suspect the viewing experience from a Joey will be nearly identical to directly from the Hopper but some setup tasks will probably need to be done from Hopper.
I suspect the viewing experience from a Joey will be nearly identical to directly from the Hopper but some setup tasks will probably need to be done from Hopper.
