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RRaschke13 said:

Hello all, I've been researching this a ton as I've been cable only for ever so all of this is completley foreign to me. To be quite honest I would rather stick with cable, but I'm moving out to the boonies and the only cable company availble has terrible service, slow internet and over-charges. I'm going to be getting Qwest internet(40/20), Qwest Basic telephone and DirecTV sattelite all bundled together. The house came with co-ax run to every room that I needed, save one, however it only came with telephone in wall, and the previous owner had the DSL piped over a dedicated coax line. Since I got the house I've run Cat6 to every room that needs it, re-done the phone lines a bit, run a dedicated Cat5 for the DSL to my equipment room and have verified all the co-ax that's in place. That's about the end of what I know for this process so far.

The house does have one dish all ready on it, but it's an 18" round dish with just two co-ax coming off of it. I know that's probably not going to cut it. I'm planning on runnind one HD-DVR, one HD box and two SD boxes. I do want the whole house DVR so I can share programs betweent the two exisiting HD boxes, and more that I will add later in place of the SD boxes after some TV upgrades. I understand that DirecTV only supports networking over co-ax via their DECA adapters, but quite frankly, that's retarded, and I would like to use my brand new network for my On-Demand and whole home DVR.

My questions are:

Should I get the 3LNB, 5LNB or a different dish with a SWM? I plan on getting the 210 channel pack.

Will the installer more than likely be fine with using my network, with the understanding that DirecTV won't offer support on it, or will I have to wait for him to leave to even try and set it up?

I plan on asking for HR24/H24 for my HD boxes, I'll be ordering through Qwest, anyone have any experience/luck with this?

Anything else I've forgotten/neglected?

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RRaschke13 said:

Thanks for all the input guys. Qwest is matching promotions on DirecTV right now if you do it in store, but I'll check out other locals. If DirecTV doe sit anything like Cox and the other cable companies out here there are only one or two groups that actually do all the installation. Theoretically all the installer should need to do is mount and align the dish and give me the boxes to install, lol.

I'm happy to do the MVR myself. I doubt I'll need the 5LNB, I'll just stick with the 3. And I do only have one coax drop per box available, so I'll make sure and request a SWM ahead of time.

I'll also let them know that I need a new ground block as the current only has dual coax.

For the MVR, has anyone had any trouble running multiple off a hub instead or a switch or router? I should have enough room between my four port router and my five port hub(7 open) for everything including the two boxes, but just in case.

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joed32 said:

Hubs are usually not a good idea for MRV.

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RRaschke13 said:

I'm happy to do the MVR myself. I doubt I'll need the 5LNB, I'll just stick with the 3. And I do only have one coax drop per box available, so I'll make sure and request a SWM ahead of time.

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RRaschke13 said:

For the MVR, has anyone had any trouble running multiple off a hub instead or a switch or router? I should have enough room between my four port router and my five port hub(7 open) for everything including the two boxes, but just in case.

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