Installation scheduled for tomorrow...a few quick questions

[Hoosier205]

Alright, just moved into a new home. (new to me...built in 2002) I am going to make this as simple an installation as possible for the person who is coming out tomorrow. There will only be one television active on this dish. There are two lines running down the interior wall into this room. One is for my antenna, the other is currently for cable...which I assume will be used for this install. This is the original line which was run when the home was built....which leads to my first question:

1.) Will the older coaxial line (from 2002) need to be replaced with something different for this installation?

On to the next topic. The room for this install is basically on the opposite side of the home from where all the cable is fed in above the garage. I am more than willing (because it is extremely easy to do in this home) to disconnect the cable above the garage and pull it to the other side of the home via the attic...to the south side of the home...where I assume the dish will be mounted. Here is a crude diagram of the home with "A" being the south side of the home where the room is and "B" being where the cable in the home originates:

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This leads to my second question...which is probably silly:

2.) If the dish is installed on or near the roof on the south end of the home...will the cables be fed directly into the home at that point?

Basically...I don't want to drag the existing cable over to site "A" for easy access for the installer, if he in fact will have have the cable routed externally all the way around the home and back to site "B". It wouldn't make much sense for him to do it that way, but I just thought I would check. I'd hate to move that cable and create more work for him.

Does any of this make sense?

My post install notes are in in post #5.

[harsh]

1.) Will the older coaxial line (from 2002) need to be replaced with something different for this installation?That depends on the quality of the cable. If it is all RG6, you should be okay. If it isn't good enough, the installer should be able to pull the right stuff through pretty quickly.2.) If the dish is installed on or near the roof on the south end of the home...will the cables be fed directly into the home at that point?One constraint is where the electrical service entrance is. Since this is usually near the garage, they will gravitate towards putting the dish in that area. If they're no line-of-sight there, they'll probably go closer to the wall where the TV will be and forget the grounding.

Depending on how steeply the roof is pitched, they may be able to install the dish on the North or East side of the house. Ideally, it should come down to where the electrical service entrance is.

[Hoosier205]

That depends on the quality of the cable. If it is all RG6, you should be okay. If it isn't good enough, the installer should be able to pull the right stuff through pretty quickly.One constraint is where the electrical service entrance is. Since this is usually near the garage, they will gravitate towards putting the dish in that area. If they're no line-of-sight there, they'll probably go closer to the wall where the TV will be and forget the grounding.

Depending on how steeply the roof is pitched, they may be able to install the dish on the North or East side of the house. Ideally, it should come down to where the electrical service entrance is.

First of all...thank you for the response.

It should be fine either way. If he wants to replace the old cable...I could pull the new one through while attached to the old one in a matter of seconds. The electrical service entrance is in the garage on the north side of the home. Is the only reason for it to be near that entrance for grounding purposes? It will have a clear line-of-sight from every other section of the home except that NE corner where the electrical entrance is.

The south end of the home is probably the absolute easiest installation. Most of the home has cathedral ceilings...getting cable across the midsection of the home (from east to west) is almost impossible. I can however run it easily from the north to south end of the home.

[harsh]

I could pull the new one through while attached to the old one in a matter of seconds.Installers are pretty expert at that kind of thing and some of them even have tools to expedite it.Is the only reason for it to be near that entrance for grounding purposes?Yup.

[Hoosier205]

Well, everything went fine on Saturday morning.

The installer showed up at about 8:30. We walked around the house and found the best place for the dish. It turns out that there was a line-of-sight issue on the south side of the house, so it went on the eastern end of the house.

I already had two lines running down the wall being used. I went up into the attic myself and connected them to the lines he fed in below the gutter. He had to push it through with his fish pole/tape until I could see it emerge through the blown insulation.

I ended up with a 5 LNB slimline...because it was what he had on the truck. He said something about it only needing to using 3 LNB or something like that. Also, I was a little disappointed that I received a HR20-100 instead of something newer. Apparently this isn't a big issue however and there really is no advantage to having the HR23 instead. I'm not concerned about hard drive space because I tend to delete things after watching them.

Pretty good deal for the installer though. He only had to mount the dish about 15ft off the ground, I did the attic work, and I wired the receiver up. He was a very nice guy and seemed to take extra care to make sure the dish was very secure and aimed properly. I don't have the info with me now, but all of the signal levels were very high. I have sorted everything out and all is well. I'm not sure why the 101 channel is listed so many times however...that seems strange to me.