Satellite Dish signal through cable?

[Jaysyl]

I want to get Dish Network for my house. I now have service through a local cable company. I will stop that service. My question is will the satellite signal go through my existing coaxial cable in the house? Or will I need to run a new cable to each room I want to have a T. V. ?



Thanks for any help.

 

[nickleinonen]

same cable can be used, as long as it is RG6. if you have RG59 cable, it can work, but it can't handle the bandwidth an rg6 cable can [90% of the time, it will be fine]



rg59 is about 1/4" od - 20g pin, mylar and copper braid shield [usually]

rg6 is about 5/16" od - 18g pin, mylar & aluminum braid shield [usually]



it also depends on what kind of satallite system you have. . if you need a direct run from the dish LNB on the dish to the reciever, you may need to run new cables. some systems have a box that goes between the dish and the reciever, to split the signal so many boxes can come off the same lnb, so you could wire into the existing coax. .

 

[Jaysyl]

Thanks for the reply. I do not know what cable I have. I do have digital cable now. I will look later and see what size cable I have.

 

[klenger]

The cable may work, but it may not go the right places. Each sat receiver needs to have it's own cable all the way to the antenna, unless you install a multi-switch somewhere, but that's another story. You can't just use a simple RF splitter like you can with cable TV.

 

[donnier]

When we had Dish installed in our house, the installer ran the cable from the antenna and connected it to the existing connections in the attic.



We only have two receivers but they work great.

 

[Jaysyl]

donnier; I hope this will work at my place. I need to have 3 receivers. Well or 3 tvs it looks as if some receivers will control more than one tv.

 

[2broke2smoke]

we have 1 reciever running to 5 tv's ... of course they are all watching the same channell ...

 

[Arkapigdiesel]

Here are the latest JD Power and Associates ratings of cable/dish providers just in case anyone is interested: http://www.jdpower.com/util/ratings/results.aspx?study_id=525&vertical=Telecom&v1=South



By the way, the link I provided is for the SE portion of the US that rated cable/dish providers. You can choose whatever region you want to at JD Power.