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Hello all,

I am in the middle of building a new house and the RG-6/CAT6 is to be installed on Monday. I currently have Dish but it is an older ViP 722k and I want to upgrade to a Hopper system. I plan to have HDTV service available to 7 TVs so I have been able to figure out that means 2 Hoppers and 5 Joey's with the option for one more Joey (max 8 TVs, with only 6 with live TV). I need some help figuring out the best way to wire the house so this will work.

All the wiring in the house will home-run to a central structured media panel, coax runs could be as long as 100ft between the panel and the different TV locations so I think this will be at the max the Hopper/Joey system can handle. The dish on the side of the house will be about 50 feet from this panel and my questions mostly revolve around it. I have seen online that the Duo Node should go on the outside of the house about 10 feet from the dish and will have three cables that run to the dish and 4 cables that will need to run (in my case) to the media panel. I really dislike cables on the side of my house so is it possible to put the node in the media panel and have 3, 40-50ft cables run to the dish? Also, where the dish has to go on the South side of the house is not close to my grounding point so what is the best way to handle that? Every place there is RG-6 there will also be CAT6 for my home network so one or both Hoppers (and all the Joeys too) could be connected directly to the network if needed. In the structured media panel, I would like to have the Duo Node, both host lines will run directly to the two Hoppers (no Taps), the two client lines will go to splitters (one 3-way and one 2-way) and then off to the Joey locations. All the coax is RG-6 rated at 3GHz or better.

As an inventory, I would need:
1 x Dish Pro Plus 1000.4 (or something?) dish/LNB
1 x Duo Node
1 x 3-way spliiter (any required spec's for the splitters?)
1 x 2-way splitter
Lots of RG-6

I will probably go through an installer when it comes time to actually install the dish, Hoppers, and Joeys (maybe just for installing/pointing the dish) but I want to be sure all the cables are in place; again, I dislike cables on the side of my house.

Can anyone help me out with my questions? If anyone has any pointers for the wiring or if I missed anything please let me know. The wiring will go in soon but we won't be moving in until July so maybe I should plan for different hardware? From what it sounds like I won't be able to benefit from a Super Joey anyways but maybe the Wireless Joey makes sense somewhere? Maybe as the 8th TV if that happens someday. On a side note, I wish this system just used my data network.

Thank you all in advance, this looks like a great community judging by what I have read in the forums.

-Ryan