Wow, nice list Barry!!

I pre-racked the last job I did, which was about 2 hrs. door-to-door. I would do it again for a project that far away.

I don't worry about it much anymore, but it was a toss up whether or not to build on site for projects close to our homes.

One of the major advantages seems to be the ability to test and troubleshoot compatibility issues between the components and the control system and fine tune the interface without having to show the early versions and confuse the clients.

That said, I never had access to high end boxes and service from any of the SIX cable services in the areas where we operated (Comcast, RCN, Time Warner, Insight, Charter, and Heartland Communications), or either of the painful DSS satellite companies' equipment.

And cable and sat equipment always represented the components that were behind the issues I faced!!!