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Last reply · posted in Free To Air (FTA) Discussion

Multi units satellite hookup design

I have a potential customer interested in the following:

He has 18 apartments that he wants to hookup for DirecTV, Dish Network, and Galaxy 25 service.

He wants to give the tenants the option to choose which service to receive (only one of the pay service and the option of G25). Every unit has two TVs.

He wants to consolidate the installation to a few dishes as possible. The farthest distance from the control room to any of the apartments is around 150ft.

I have an idea on how he should design the network, but I would like to hear your suggestions.
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cracklincrotch
cracklincrotch
What if you were to add another satellite or more to the FTA? Would you need two additional 2x16 multi switches for each sat added, and then a diseqc switch to go to each sat's 2x16 switch? Or would there be a simpler way to do that?
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If they make a 4x16 switch out there you could use that if they added a 2nd satellite.

If there isnt one out there, then you would uyse the same setup as DirecTV with a 4 way splitter on each output and run a line from each output to a 4x8 multiswitch
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Buzzdar
Buzzdar
Ok here is a question for ya Why cant an apartment Complex Pick a company like D* or E* and put one company's dish on the roof and if the tenant wants that company let them call and hook up that company but everyone using that one dish. Why do i have to see one company with 6 or more different dishes on an Apt building. why does everyone need there own dish?
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It is often cheaper to install a simple antenna for each customer in many situations, than to deal with compensating for line losses, installing RG-11 cable after a couple hundred feet, or the added hardware needed to serve multiple units.
The cost and complexity of going to a 16 output multiswitch and the added cable lengths might make the decision for something like eight units sharing a common dish and multiswitch. Install separate antenna systems and multiswitches for a certain number of units, given the economics of distance from the antenna location and hardware needed to do so.
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Buzzdar said:
Ok here is a question for ya Why cant an apartment Complex Pick a company like D* or E* and put one company's dish on the roof and if the tenant wants that company let them call and hook up that company but everyone using that one dish. Why do i have to see one company with 6 or more different dishes on an Apt building. why does everyone need there own dish?
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I can think of one right off the top of my head and that was the apt complex wasn't thinking.
Back in 2000 I use to live in a brand new apt complex that put a 36 or 48" dish on the roof for Dish Network. And if you wanted Dish you could talk to the landlord and they would set you up with one. There were 3 jacks in the house (one in LR and one in each BR)...so it sounded simple, right?

well....there were some issues
-they only had a dish at 119. So you couldn't get anything on 110
-Even though the locals were through Dish at the time (the big 4), they wouldn't give them to us...they were on 110
-they gave us a crappy 3000 receiver
-they charged us 6.95 as a "maintenance" fee for the box & our locals (which came from an antenna so they were fuzzy)

They built a new complex about 4 years ago and guess what they did? They still only put a 119 dish up (I can see it from the road). With people wanting stuff on 129 or even 110 (lots of Spanish speaking people in the town I live in) there are numerous dishes on poles on the decks.

Unless its a new complex, its tough to completely redo the wiring in the walls as allot of complexes used RG59. Also you have to think of dual runs for the dual tuner DVR's
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Van
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Whats for breakfast?

Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?

Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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Cold morning today, only 32 degrees. Fired up the oven and made cinnamon rolls (from a tube) and a pot of coffee.
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2 egg burrito with bacon and a side of hashbrowns. Coffee.

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Breakfast Quesadillas. Grilled flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped green chile, cheddar & Jack cheese and bacon. Coffee.

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Taco omelette. 3 eggs, taco meat from yesterday, diced green chilis, cheddar cheese, chopped red onion, avocado, black olives, chopped tomato, La Victoria Salsa Brava.

This one was really, really good!
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Thought I was getting a Chorizo and egg burrito (marker had rubbed off)but was a roast beef/potato I made up before hunting this morning.
Btw every morning at camp I cooked my homemade Chorizo and scrambled eggs plus sausage side while my brother brought bacon. (they liked both the beef and pork versions)
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Scott Greczkowski
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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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On with the Show - The Rolling Stones
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The Show Must Go On - Pink Floyd
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If Love Must Go - Dobie Gray
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Drift Away - Dobie Gray
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dishstaller
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Wife's iPhone 15 doesn't allow her to choose LTE only for data

We were up in Pigeon Forge, TN a month ago and we couldn't get anything on our phones to work on mobile data...the Ookla speed test app couldn't even do a speed test. I have an older 13 and went into my settings and turned off the 5G, making it use LTE exclusively....did a speed test of over 300mbps so obviously the 5G bands were overwhelmed. Anyway, tried to do the same thing on my Wife's 15 and the cellular data options tab simply wasn't there. Any of you run into this? We've on Verizon
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osu1991
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Marvel Television’s VisionQuest


View: https://youtu.be/oSVTAUKyrL8?si=pF-pQQAJIiKjSqx6


Oct 14 Disney+
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meStevo
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First 2 eps out and it's unsurprisingly great to watch Paul Bettany and James Spader work.
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Watched the first episode and enjoyed it.
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James Spader gets the best lines so far. I'm enjoying this series.
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Finished the 2nd episode tonight. I'm really liking it so far.

Still hate weekly releases though, especially the way Disney and HBO do it waiting until 8pm to premiere it.
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Apparently I'm not a big enough nerd🤓 since I did not read every Marvel Comic Book ever published. If I had, I might be comparing the comics' version of events compared to what's transpiring in "Visionquest". So, I am enjoying the series a lot, not weighed down by previous expectations, knowing only the Avengers MCU movies and the "Wandavision" / "Agatha All Along" TV series.

I found the Mr Know-it-All channel from his discussion about "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and he's been gleefully picking these episodes apart, referencing the Marvel comics from the 1939 on. Turns out A.I. has been around since before World War II, at least in the comics. (Robots before that, yes, yes.) This show is going back into the archives.
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TheForce
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Anyone planning to buy the iphone 17?

It's time for my wife to get a new iphone as her iphone 12 is getting weak battery life test says 70% compared to when new. But it is beginning to show signs of screen freezing as well.
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Foxbat
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It may be the year to update my 13 to the 15.
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BTW, iOS 26.1 is now out for iPhone, along with the OS 26.1 updates for all other supported Appley iDevices.
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osu1991
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Bought a Motorola G Power 5G android phone as a spare and to use for some work stuff. Was tired of work stuff cluttering up my iPhone 16 Pro. Didn't take long to remember why I originally went to an iPhone. 4hrs doing updates to step up from Android 14 updates to Android 15 and latest updates for 15. Ads on the Play store above the app I searched for is something I don't really remember from the last android phone I had 13-14 yrs ago. Face ID on iphone has spoiled me too.

I just wanted a cheap phone mainly for work pictures or I would have got an 17 Pro and used my 16 for work stuff, but no need to spend that kind of money. I don't even have cellular service on the Motorola, just using it on WiFi and added my google voice number to it with the app.
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Apple released their 2025 Holiday video. Friendly forest fauna find forgotten phone…
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There's also a behind the scenes "Making of" video, too:
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Foxbat said:
BTW, iOS 26.1 is now out for iPhone, along with the OS 26.1 updates for all other supported Appley iDevices.
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BTW, iOS 26.3 is now out for iPhone, along with the OS 26.3 updates for all other supported Appley iDevices.
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Foxbat said:
It may be the year to update my 13 to the 15.
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Apple made me an offer I couldn't refuse. For whatever reason, they bumped up the Trade-in value of my iPhone 13, first to $180, and just recently to $195. So I took the Apple Cash from Apple card savings and the $195 trade-in and have a shiny new iPhone 17 nothing. The base 256 GB is more than enough for my needs.

Now I'm on the lookout for a leather case for it…
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My iPhone 17 is now running iOS 27.2 (whatever happened to 27.1.x?) and it looks like all the other Apple devices that can are releasing 27.2 (looks like it came out Monday)
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The new PROLED MacBook Pro has a Dynamic Island 😯

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New PROLED MacBook Pro!

Time for another AWESOME video from iJustine!


View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ux8oQzvijl4


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"MysteryMan"
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Windows 10/11 Download

I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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EarDemon
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If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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WhiteBeard
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EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything. ☹️
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For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
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harshness
harshness
EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.
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What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.
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EarDemon
harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?
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Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.
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I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.
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harshness
harshness
EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.
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I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.
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HipKat
HipKat
EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.
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I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style
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"MysteryMan"
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2026-10 Preview Update Builds: 26300.9818 and 26200.9818 (KB5127936) has been released. Moderate time needed for those choosing to perform a manual download/install/restart. Quality improvements only. No new operating system features.
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· posted in TWiT Tech Podcast Network

Windows Weekly 1007

Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!


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MacBook Pro PROLED XDR Hands-on

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