pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet

   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #21  
It isn't interesting how things are done differently around the country. A few months ago I did the cabling of the 3500 sq ft house I am building. We have Dish with the Hopper 3 with Joeys and WiFi in the house. The Dish has a single cable that goes into the house. I ran RG6 to eight locations, 4 upstairs and 4 downstairs with the coaxial 8 port hub in a central location. The Joeys work as they are supposed to and the single WiFi router transmits throughout the house as well as outside the house. IMO the key to having great WiFi is a great router, I am using the Netgear Nighthawk X6 which is an amazing router.

If you are using satellite internet it should make no difference to the WiFi router and unless you just want to run Cat cabling there is not a lot of need to. I struggled with this decision myself, since I had bare studs to work with. I chose to skip Ethernet cable as well as phone cable, I just don't see the need in having them, they would never be used in our home.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #22  
I chose to skip Ethernet cable as well as phone cable, I just don't see the need in having them, they would never be used in our home.

A LOT depends on the materials used on the house. Here, the outside is covered with a synthetic stucco, and the underlying chicken wire mesh forms a Faraday cage that pretty much stops any radio signal from getting in or out. I use a cell phone amplifier to get reception inside, and will be running CAT5 to an access point outside the house envelope to get WiFi to the out buildings. YMMV...
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #23  
We built inside a 40x70 metal building, (barndominium) the WiFi still travels outside the building. Cell is a different story but we will use the cell amplifier to tackle that issue.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #24  
I have DirecTV, the Hopper DVR, and one Joey in the master bedroom. .


Direct TV doesn't have the Hopper, that would be Dish Network. Direct TV uses Genies, like magic, u know.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #25  
Router placement and router quality will all be valuable attributes. You put a good router in the corner of a basement and you will still have crappy coverage. Centrally locate the router like on the main floor and you will be better off.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #26  
Cat 5 is going to struggle with 4k TV. Cat6 is much better.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #27  
Talk to your local installer. They should be in the yellow pages. It's going to depend on what satellites you want to hit. 148 will be below your horizon. 61.5 should be visible from your location. Here on the left coast I use 110 with one dish and 119/121 with the other dish, so each receiver gets two coax connections. I used to use satellite internet, and it took a third run for the internet dish, which is a different architecture from the satellite TV dishes. My installation is a decade old Dish 500 setup, so I'm not sure what the current configuration would be. This is a chart of the satellite service you will be looking for:

Selecting the right dish for DirecTV and Dish Network - KaKu or Dish 1000

This information is at least three years out of date, so talking to your local installer is a really good idea. Over and beyond satellite TV, the next generation of 4k TV will suck a huge amount of bandwidth. Cat6 and HDMI to all locations is a really good idea, and you need a top quality HDMI cable. Wifi is fine for SDTV but doesn't have the bandwidth for HDTV.
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #29  
To the OP, when we built, I did what others are suggesting, put in a central wiring closet and ran Cat 5 and coax to as many spots as seems reasonable. Each bedroom has two Cat 5 and coax terminations and we have a set in the kitchen. I should have added a Cat 5 plate near the TV but did not and had to use a power line network for awhile. Now everything is wireless. We had Directv that used the coax connections in the study, bedrooms and living room but since we canceled the service, those lines are not needed anymore.

Our wiring closet is actually two panels that fit into a wall cavity. One is for Cat 5 and the other coax.

One thing I messed up was NOT running Cat 5 to the corners of the house for security cameras. We did put in coax into each roof overhang for security cameras. In hindsight, we should have run some Cat 5 as well as coax since many security cameras are not using Ethernet for the communication link.

Today the Cat 5 should be Cat 6.

I have used the coax wiring closet to reroute things when we got rid of Directv and put in a OTA antennae.


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When we got DSL I started to put the DSL modem in the enclosure but instead used a line from the DSL splitter to run to my office for the modem. That way I can see the function lights and reset the modem without having to go to the garage. With CenturyLink I have to reset the modem often.....

:rolleyes: We too have had to keep the DSL model out of the wiring closet because CenturyLink service is horrible in our area and we have to constantly reboot the modems and wireless.

Later,
Dan
 
   / pre-wiring for Dish Network TV & Internet #30  
Cannot be "below"he horizon if he lives in LA as they are geosynchronous sats over the equator.

paul

Louisiana is a long ways from Hawaii. 148 is pretty low on the horizon here on the west coast.
 

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