My house is about 100 feet from the road. The first dish(old account) was put out in the front yard next to my rail fence so they could miss the trees in the back yard. There was a small device by the dish screwed to a fence post. Single wire went into house. Since this install was for Hopper only, the installer put the node in the same place.
This install made the installer happy. Replace the dish, put in the node, come in house, set Hopper in place, plug in wires that were ready, and "tune" it up. He ended up with two hours to spare. He had to call the office to find something to do. Next install would not be home for two hours. (I try to make it easy for them)

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RT