It's been a while since I needed to wire a Dish - we used to pull 4 coax to feed the big multiswitches . What do the new systems need?

Prewiring a house that will have 14 displays but distributing only 5 DTV receivers. I assume I don't need much of a backbone for the 5 boxes. But I want to prepare for expansion. Currently 2 QS coaxes to the dish location. Do I need to add?

Also have separate service feeds for cable (2 coax + 2 cat6) so I don't have to worry about sharing any wiring.

I would run at least 5 total, never know what will happen in the future.

You will probably end up just using a single coax now, depending on how many tuners (not receivers) you have and what satellite provides your local channels.

4 rg6 quad solid copper 3ghz at the dish

Speaking of the dish, I just finised a project where we ran 4 to the dish stubbed out of the side of a chimney. 8 foot ladder got you on the roof and a couple steps up and around the corner to the dish. DirecTV guy says he can't install because he can't go on the roof. Is this something new now that att has taken over?

As hdsystems says:



This is mentioned in another thread, along with prohibitions against going under houses. I first ran across the roof thing about two years ago, when an installer insisted she could put the dish anywhere that she could reach from the ladder, and it was company policy not to allow them on the roofs any more.

One general thing to note about dishes on roofs, though, is that they don't have to be up high AT ALL. It's nice to have them out of sight and they have to have a clear shot at the bird, but they could be on the ground if nobody got in their way. I once did one two feet off the ground inside a pool equipment enclosure.

So don't spend a single moment trying to figure out how to get a dish high up on a roof.

Thanks. So how many feeds does a SWM16 need? And how about a SWM32?

4 for standard channels. 6 if you need some of the international programming and have multiple dishes.

SWM 32's are for commercial accounts and DirecTV won't install on in a residence. Besides, you can't whole-home between the 2 sides (A 32 is just 2 16's with an internal splitter).

If you need more than 16 tuners, there are ways to wire it up so you can get whole-home and internet between 2 SWM 16's.

I have ran into this as well. Here I think its because once you are above 10' and not on a ladder you need to have fall arrest equipment on (harness, lanyard, tie off point). If you are working off a ladder there obviously isn't anywhere that you can tie off to so they can get away with working at 15-20' above the ground without the safety guys driving by and seeing something that shouldn't be happening.

Thanks. Ran 2 more - all set.