Dish Network and/or DirectTV question?

Question

Do these compainies need to put holes in any part of the house to install? We are moving into a rental and there is already a dish on the house. ( not sure which company it belongs too) If they come out to re-install do they poke holes in the house? Also, does anyone know how good their internet service is? Same question for the internet hook up... anout holes in the walls. And last question... there will be 5 TV's that need hooked up and 2 computers, so once again, will they need to poke holes all over the house?

Answer 1

1) If there are no entry points where the RG6 coax is coming in, the installer will have to drill. Given that someone's little dish is already installed, I presume the cabling into the building already exists. If it's the other company's dish, the installer will just reuse the post and either install a new dish and arm or reposition the old one to point to the right place in the sky.

2) I'm guessing your place has no other high speed ISP alternatives (cable modem, DSL, Fiber Optics), so you're set on satellite broadband. Don't know what kind of hookup that entails, but I'd presume that that one runs side-by-side w/ the TV cabling.

Don't know enough about the quality, but I know that, if you need to access a network via VPN (e.g., work), satellite broadband slows down to a crawl since it needs data compression for it to work, and that would have to be disabled for your VPN software to work.

3) If the runs do not already exist, the installer will poke more holes.

That's a whole lotta holes...

Answer 2

I don't know much but, if you use the same dish company, they won't have to do anything to the house.

Answer 3

I know Dish Network does, for sure.

Answer 4

have direct tv and exede sat service. Located in wood lot with trees. service worked a one time, but now is sporadic. (exede)