A lot of homes these days are pre-wired. It really isn't surprising that the installer will charge for it.
Slick Vic - still a crapshoot to get someone you can understand well
is this included with free install?
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Slick Vic - still a crapshoot to get someone you can understand well
ok right now I'm starting to think DirecTV treats their installers like scumbags... hence all the charges
I know when I had dish the guy had to take photos of all his work so he got paid for everything. Felt bad for him.
Guess thats how Direct gets away with being so much cheaper than Dish
I know when I had dish the guy had to take photos of all his work so he got paid for everything. Felt bad for him.
Guess thats how Direct gets away with being so much cheaper than Dish
In terms of transmission quality, this is the ideal method.
Feeding a cable through a hole in something and terminating it at the receiver is what you get.
You can compromise the signal by putting in wall plates and couplers later if you can't live with knowing that there isn't a wall plate, but understand that it may adversely impact your viewing if you're sloppy or near the limits on distance.
So it is better to go without the wall plate? If I just run the cable, will it be a huge hole? Or will he clean it up at all or somethin?
Well I remember the line Dish dropped was the uncut cable directly from the satellite, but they at least put a plate to cover the hole they had to put in.
oh please tell me now... neither has been installed.
I have 12 months at 59.9 for direct choice hd dvr
not including all the credits I have.
after the 12 months it goes up to 80 a month (but they swore they could put me in a new package afterwards... not holding my breath)
I just want an HD DVR and a middle tier of channels.
Dish came up a lot higher
(sorry for the hijack)
The holes typically aren't any larger than the cable. There are cover plates available that fit around the cable or you can buy an angled "hole-in-the-wall" where you can pass through multiple cables without severing any of them.
Remember that any of the DIRECTV DVR installs may require two cables depending on the switching technology that your installer uses.
thats how the whole thing started... the jack is already wired... I need 2 wires there. which is why Im thinking he was going to charge 80 for each wire = 160. he said there'd be no charge if there wasn't a DVR... but hrm... he'd have to go into the attack anyway to cut the line from TW and add it to the dish.
again... another fee schedule that I'm clueless on
A bunch of the rooms in this home are pre-wired for D*, so it shouldn't be a problem with the two wires.
Yup,
The correct way to do it is an "old work" box attached to a stud or the sheet rock. Then the cable is run into the installed box with a fitting into the insude of the wall plate. the wall plate is attached and then a cable is run from the outside of the wall plate to the receiver.
EXTRA CHARGE for the wall fish, box & plate.
The HSP way is to skip the box, run the cable into the wall and screw the plate to the sheet rock. The cable comes in through an exterior wall or up from the floor.
Joe
no i wasnt kidding, a standard install does not require the tech to install a wall plate, we need to pay for them, so the tech could charge you whatever he feels and just drill it into the drywall, but i personally would never do that, i charge 40 to install a gangbox with plate. 100 if the wire is fished (including the box 40+60)
and yes all we are 'required' to do is drill a hole in the wall and run the wire through it, then weather seal the hole, the size of the hole depends on how stupid the tech is, for just 1 wire, you only need a 3/8" bit. some people use 1/2" to accomidate the fitting, some use 5/8" to accomidate dual should it ever be needed.
and yes all we are 'required' to do is drill a hole in the wall and run the wire through it, then weather seal the hole, the size of the hole depends on how stupid the tech is, for just 1 wire, you only need a 3/8" bit. some people use 1/2" to accomidate the fitting, some use 5/8" to accomidate dual should it ever be needed.
Is that install in response to if I purchase a plate in advance?
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=70594-334-2128W-SP-L&lpage=none
If I get that, does the wire just pass through no problem?
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