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Last reply Nov 29, 2006 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

What's included with "Standard Professional" install?

Dish is coming on Friday to install the 625 I bought. I already have a 510 downstairs. I want move the 510 upstairs and keep the 625 downstairs. I only have one feed from the dish to the downstairs.

What does that actually include? How do they run wires (when necessary)? Do they run them on the outside of the house? Through the walls? I will need a second drop to the first floor for the second tuner in the 625. I can run the wire to the 510 on the second floor (attic access is easy). I will aslo need a DP34 (or similar multi-switch) to replace my SW-21.

When I ran my wire downstair from the attic, I left behind a string in case I need to fish something else down later on. Maybe he can use that as I'd prefer the wires be inside.

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Alvn8r

Nov 29, 2006

There is a fee for phone lines, wall fishing (if it is over 5 ft), mirroring and remotes other than the ones in the box.

RedWings

Nov 29, 2006

It really depends on the installer. Some will stick with the E* minimum requirements mentioned above. Some guys will do a little extra because they want their work to look good. The guy I had was younger (20s) and with bullshitted for a few minutes before he got to work. He left me a bunch of extra coax, fixed some cable ends on the cable companies sh!tty hookup, set all my remotes up, and left me a few extra parts for when I move the dish.

Charade

Nov 29, 2006

Alvn8r said:
There is a fee for phone lines, wall fishing (if it is over 5 ft), mirroring and remotes other than the ones in the box.

Oh. I guess they won't be installing it the way I need it then because I need another wire run from the dish to the downstairs and other than fishing it through the wall (where the other wire is now), is to run it on the outside of the house which I would prefer not to. He's gonna have to go on the roof to mount the new switch so I guess I'll get him to run the wires on the outside to the second floor so I can at least use the 625 upstairs until I run the wires the way I want.

Do you know how much extra it would be to fish the wire through the wall?

Do they use flat wire so I can avoid drilling holes in the outside wall?

rcdallas

Nov 29, 2006

I'd really just wait until the installer shows up. As mentioned it all depends on the installer on how good he/she wants to make it.

If you have the wallfish already setup with a string to pull, ready and open stuff out of the way for the guy then all he has to do is put a good head on the fish line and go from there. Have the tv's pulled back from the wall, area clear.

I go out of my way on alot of jobs, but there have been times where quickest and easiet came first.

It's not fun or convienient when showing up to a job, you have to park in the street walk 200' with your tools, you get to the home, customer takes 10 minutes to answer the door, go inside have a little dog come bite you at the ankles, kids running everywhere, personal items all over the floor, animal droppings with mold on them (famous words I keep telling the boys to pick this up) then in the middle of the job, please move your vehicle my daughter needs to get out, etc.

Use your judgement make it easy on him/her, especially time wise and you never know. Good things will probably happen.

When I get back early and have time I pre-call the customer the night before and give them a heads up on what needs to be done, to make things more efficient and the scheduled work comes out better majority of the time.

Liquidforce88

Nov 29, 2006

Custom Labor is 59/hr. Flat cables are not used for most installs. Dish has a special flat cable for apartment installs but the customer has to pay $15.00 per cable for them. We can almost never get them.

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Scott Greczkowski

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Dish Bankruptcy - Business as Usual

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slow_poke_pete

Yesterday at 6:38 PM

https://www.phonearena.com/news/att-reshoring-customer-care_id184650

Meanwhile att is getting rid of overseas call centers

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comfortably_numb

Yesterday at 6:52 PM

slow_poke_pete said:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/att-reshoring-customer-care_id184650

Meanwhile att is getting rid of overseas call centers

Too bad their service is expensive and their coverage sucks compared to the other two of the Big 3

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Juan

Yesterday at 9:50 PM

comfortably_numb said:
Too bad their service is expensive and their coverage sucks compared to the other two of the Big 3

Was that a back door compliment for Verizon?

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comfortably_numb

Today at 9:27 AM

Juan said:
Was that a back door compliment for Verizon?

And TMO. If anybody's lagging behind the most, it's ATT.

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Today at 10:52 AM

The short term financial thinking by MBAs is what killed Xerox. Ask me how I know!

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56 minutes ago

So you have a MBA?
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Juan

31 minutes ago

ERSanders said:
The short term financial thinking by MBAs is what killed Xerox. Ask me how I know!

I thought it was when Bill Gates stole DOS

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dishdude

30 minutes ago

Juan said:
I thought it was when Bill Gates stole DOS

And Steve Jobs stole the mouse and GUI

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No problem here (in central Europe) with a 10-footer. Do note that 9.4 dB required for the lock.
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Finally! Some big movement in California diesel pricing (and no, there is no such beastie as a diesel "winter formula").

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harshness said:
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Last reply Today at 9:27 AM · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

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long_time_Dish said:
No NASCAR in 4K on Sunday? Bummer...

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Jim5506 said:
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Ah, ok, thanks!

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sasmith

Yesterday at 9:22 PM

Not seeing many 4k games on the 148 channels lately?

Also I do not see the 4KFox channel on 148-01; I also do not subscribed to our Local Houston channels.

Maybe I need to subscribe to locals or add the National Action Pack? Not sure the extra cost is worth it??

thx for any info or suggestions

S

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jsmit86

Today at 9:27 AM

sasmith said:
Not seeing many 4k games on the 148 channels lately?

Also I do not see the 4KFox channel on 148-01; I also do not subscribed to our Local Houston channels.

Maybe I need to subscribe to locals or add the National Action Pack? Not sure the extra cost is worth it??

thx for any info or suggestions

S

Most of the 4K action on the 148-xx channels will be on Saturday for College Football. For whatever reason, the guide does not show the games until later in the week. The Fox Big Noon game will show up, and there will usually be a couple of other games, some on Fox, and some on ESPN.

I don't know if you need to be subscribed to locals to get them.

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