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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
realistically, the roof deck is a couple of years away, so I think that a chimney installation is the best way to do it. I refuse to hang the thing off of a window sill. The question then becomes how to bring the cable into the house?
How much work does "standard professional installation" usually entail? How much will they actually do?
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Your professional installation will greatly depend on the guy that they send out. Our first guy sucked. Second guy knew a whole lot more about running cable and life in general. If the house has had cable in the past, they can just tie into the existing cable box on the outside (or inside) of your house. If the lines are old (old RG5) you may experience some tranmission and picture problems. Use as much RG6 as you can get away with.
They can put the dish on any part of the roof that you want, just figure that you need a clear shot pointing toward Phoenix. They'll usually pick the spot nearest the cable tap.
As for snow- I worked in a retail establishment during law school up in Seattle during one of the worst snow storms ever. We lost power and cable. When the power came back, the only signal we could get was off the Directv. The Dish Network dish had issues and cable took about a week to get back. We lost signal periodically, but not bad considering.
Buy an HD dish now, and you won't have to upgrade later. Buy the one with 3 LNBs and have them run all the lines they can to the rooms you will eventually use.
