Recent content by lemosley01

W00t. Go bucks! 5 drops - 4 for directv, one spare of for an OTA antenna. My understanding is that can be multiplexed in and split later, is that correct?

I' ve alread planned for Cat5e in every room. The house will be covered by wireless but entertainment systems will need a hardline, so most of the rooms have it. Some won't (dining room, formal living room, kitchen), but the bedrooms and family/game rooms do. Phone lines, I'm not worried...

Thanks Jef - any reason why you would have two lines per room? I thought $330 seemed high, too, but the builder won't let anyone else do it other than their 'certified people' - otherwise I'd pull the line myself and let the installer connect it. Power isn't an issue - the A/V panel will...

I posed this on the E* forum as well, and wanted to see how DTV compares. We met with the company that will be doing the structured wiring in the house that is being built. He indicated that the roof drop will include 3 runs of cable, but that E*/DTV were actually wanting up to 5 to allow...

Thanks for the info. George, the additional two drops (total of 5) from the roof will run $330, which is kind of high for just running cable. It will make adding OTA easier, in the end.

I'm not quite sure what you said. Is tere a dictionary of acronyms/terms around here or elsewhere? DishPro is the old switch, correct? I believe that is what we had in the old house (since I'm not there anymore, I can't look), but it required to separate runs to the dual tuner DVR - a...

We met with the company that will be doing the structured wiring in the house that is being built. He indicated that the roof drop will include 3 runs of cable, but that E*/DTV were actually wanting up to 5 to allow handling HD? I was under the impression that I would only need 1 or 2 cable...