First, don't listen to Dish techs that tell you that you NEED Mesh routers. Many people do. I do at my house. And you may.
But Google's Mesh routers are garbage. Go look up Google Wifi on Reddit. I hate that again, they're taking the good Linksys Mesh WiFi 6E routers away and forcing us to...
First, no, there are no instances of the foam collapsing. This isn’t Styrofoam. Second of all you’re showing a picture of a fence post not the poes we use for satellite dishes. There’s a difference.
I like a system like that. They're few and far between. But taking on that install and making it work is something I wish I could have done more often.
Like the guy who said Comcast told him his install was too difficult and I got him installed with 4 rooms. And yeah, it was tough.
I know a guy...
Sigh...
From our Tech portal (meaning for technicians):
EHD sizes for Hoppers
IHS iQ
For Hopper family receivers, here are the External Hard Drive (EHD) size requirements:
Minimum size: 320 GB
Maximum size: 7 TB
Important note: If a customer is using more than 1 EHD with their Hopper, they...
Yeah, that's not what we use, sadly. They gave the guy augers that are about 3" wide, but I still use a regular post hole digger and even so, a half bag will blow foam way out of the hole, if you use the Post Hole foam.
The problem is with a 3' hole, even a 4' hole, using even a quarter of the bag it does much more than a small amount. It's crazy how much it expands - and then the other 3/4's of the bag gets thrown away