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I ran RG-11 280' from my slimline-5 to the house (40' RG-6 inside) and have no problems.

Dish to house distance limitation

I am also having difficulties getting Direct TV.

I have had two techs come to the property in the woods and both tell me that I am unable to get reception due to the trees. I have a clearing approximately 250' away. There is a clear shot to the Southwest sky.

My issue is the 125' limit of coax.

Does anyone know of a coax to fiber optic media coverter that might work in order to solve this problem? Where I work we use fiber to coax media converters for CCTV. It works great.

I dont want to spend the money on something that might work!

When you can afford a fiber media converter that has 2GHz of bandwidth, let us know and we'll get you a little closer to your goal.

Of course you'll still need to figure out some way of getting 29VDC to the dish to power the amplifiers and switchgear.

d* is saying 125ft alot because thats what they will cover in a basic install, good luck getting a straight answer from anyone over the phone, and most installers would look at your property and just not want to do it for the time it would take, and for potential service calls on equipment and wire that isnt ours, such as the rg11, aslo where are you grounding? RG6 is limited to 150', idk about rg8 or rg11, but im fairly positive 1/2hardline is 500'. and the frequency is 2150mhz, not just 2ghz. Your probably going to be better off installing most of this yourself, and providing alot of equipment. and you might as well mount the pole yourself to save that money. 2" OD pole, RG11 coax run from the dish point up to the house with i would say 5-10' extra on both sides, oh and for the rg11, i would probably bet money that the tech will NOT have strippers compression or fittings for rg11, so pick that up too, and your account probably isnt flagged for swm, so the chances of d* adding it correctly are slim and non, so your looking at buying the lnb, power inserter, and switch too. if you can provide all of the equipment to get signal inside the house an installer should be able to take it from there.... the question is will they. With the majority of the equipment being yours and the work not done by them, they would have the right to refuse the job in order to avoid charge backs on service calls. not to mention if you ever did need a service call no tech is going to be able to work on rg11.

What is the price range of a 2ghz fiber optic media converter? Has anyone had any experience with type of installation? If so, SHOW ME THE WAY!


It sounds to me as if the RG11 will do the trick at 250'. One d* tech told me I could do it all my self then call for the setup.