I plan to move to Dish but will need to run the wires from the roof down through the inside of my townhouse (not allowed to run wires on the outside of the house) while some rehabbing is done, so want to be sure I use the right coax. The Dish site calls for RG6, but I wondered if I will need a different coax to receive the new MPEG4 signals (whenever that happens)? Thanks.
Wiring for MPEG4?
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I strongly doubt you'll need new cable just for dish changing the form of compression that they use. As a matter of fact they can send any compression that they like down on plain RG6 grade cable with the large data path that is has. I think it'll be a long time before anybody needs to go beyond RG6 for satellite cabling needs.
RG6 swept tested to 2150MHz ... not just RG6. You should be fine with that.
Run at least one more cable than you need. One never knows when an additional orbital location may be needed (or if a cable goes bad you have a replacement ready to use).
JL
Run at least one more cable than you need. One never knows when an additional orbital location may be needed (or if a cable goes bad you have a replacement ready to use).
JL
Swept to 2150MHz is typical. We've been installing 3000MHz RG6 for several months. there are odd times when the lower frequency cable hasn't worked well, requiring replacement.
If you already have the walls open and ready to run new wire you may as well over-engineer. Not only that, install outlets in all the places you MAY ever want a tv to go, put in speaker wires, etc. It's all so much easier with open walls.
If you already have the walls open and ready to run new wire you may as well over-engineer. Not only that, install outlets in all the places you MAY ever want a tv to go, put in speaker wires, etc. It's all so much easier with open walls.
Yup get RG-6 if it is swept tested to 3000Mhz that is great but that only means thats what they tested it to. Older RG-6 may have been only swept to 1800Mhz, can be swept again and it will go to 3000Mhz.
Run at least 4 lines to the Dish location. That way you should be fine. Also run cat5 to all the locations that you may have Tv's as well.
Run at least 4 lines to the Dish location. That way you should be fine. Also run cat5 to all the locations that you may have Tv's as well.
Thanks to all for the replies. I was traveling and could not respond until now - sorry for the delay. My current plan is to have two dual tuner receivers (probably the 942) connected to the dish to handle two rooms and then use interior cable from these receivers to TVs in two other rooms - I understand that the UHF remote should work from the second TVs. Is such a set up what was meant by running 4 cables from the dish? What is CAT 5 - what I need for the internal wiring? Should I consider another approach?
You can run two 942s with just two cables from the dish with DPP technology, but I believe Dave was just suggesting to install four now. It's always easier to install now than later, so you can have two extra dish feeds just in case. Cat 5 is computer network cable, so it's like a telephone wire, except with a wider jack and several more wires inside. You might want Cat 5e or Cat 6, but I'm not very knowledgable, so I hope Dave or someone else and speak more on this for you. Again, I think he was just suggesting that you install all this cabling now, so you don't need to later when you wind up needing the extra cables.
If you also want locals in HD then you'll need an extra coax. Hopefully a samll UHF antenna could be mounted along with the dish. DN only offers locals in SD at this time.
PS: Mpeg4 is a data compression method and has nothing to do with the wiring. Satellite dishes need at least RG6 at 2Ghz for bandwidth reasons.
PS: Mpeg4 is a data compression method and has nothing to do with the wiring. Satellite dishes need at least RG6 at 2Ghz for bandwidth reasons.
