Satellite TV in 2 buildings?

[jwinslow]

We have a house on a horse farm (the landlord uses the barn, land & woods for horse riding... we rent the house). The landlord installed dish network at the bunkhouse across the driveway from our house.

When I join the HDTV world soon, I'll want new TV service.

My question is, can I pay DishTV to run a line from the satellite dish + bunkhouse... across the driveway and yard... up to my house?

Since it's owned by one entity (my landlord), is that allowed by dish? (vs splitting between neighbors)

Is it even possible to send a second cable to the house?

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The idea is then I could just pay for the receivers & dvrs, without paying more for tv service.

 

[Brutus1]

DishTV ?

DirecTV or Dish Network


I would think they would do that, but I would talk to the landlord first to
see if he'll take care of that. I wouldn't expect him to pay for the service with you only paying for the receivers/DVR's. They would probably have to change the dish anyway to get DVR service and Hi-Def. They can only run the cable a certain distance, but your description sounds like it's not too far.

Offer the LL to split the monthly service plus any extra's that you add on. That's cheaper for him, he may go for it.

 

[jwinslow]

Sorry, Dish Network.

Landlord is a loose term. Really, they're a family friend who needed a reliable tenant, plus someone on-site for horse emergencies (wife is a horse trainer/etc).

I leapfrogged off their farm phone line plan and added DSL for me, so I doubt they'd care if I did so again. I'll see what they want to do, but money is little consequence to them

They would probably have to change the dish anyway to get DVR service and Hi-Def.

It just got installed a few months ago, with HD service I believe. If so, they should have the right dish for DVR service right?

They can only run the cable a certain distance, but your description sounds like it's not too far.

40 yards? (from roof dish to house) I'm bad with distances, but that seems reasonably close.

 

[Deety]

40 yards? (from roof dish to house) I'm bad with distances, but that seems reasonably close.

If you can run it in 4.3... it's less than 40. :p

 

[Nutriaitch]

Sorry, Dish Network.

Landlord is a loose term. Really, they're a family friend who needed a reliable tenant, plus someone on-site for horse emergencies (wife is a horse trainer/etc).

I leapfrogged off their farm phone line plan and added DSL for me, so I doubt they'd care if I did so again. I'll see what they want to do, but money is little consequence to them It just got installed a few months ago, with HD service I believe. If so, they should have the right dish for DVR service right?40 yards? (from roof dish to house) I'm bad with distances, but that seems reasonably close.

You have 2 choices. I have DirecTv, but it's probably similar setup.
You can either:

• acquire your own dish (suggest not going through Dish Network for it), and have your landlord order a new receiver. Install that receiver in your house, and voila', you have satellite in your home.

or​

• You'll need a signal amplifier to get it from 40 yards. Most Satellites need one if you have a run of more than 75ft. Almost any electronics store will have the amplifiers, and I don't think they're real expensive. This is probably your easiest and best option. Just have your landlord order your receiver(s), or go buy one at Best Buy and activate it with his account.

 

[Nutriaitch]

If you can run it in 4.3... it's less than 40. :p

unless your from the South, then it's probably 45 yards.

 

[BrutuStrength]

I'm not familiar with Dish's service, but I know my dad has direcTv in his beach house and was able to piggyback the service for his boat. I guess it was considered to part of the same location since the boat is docked at that residence. He did have to pay to have a separate mobile satellite system installed on the boat, but is able to watch the programming for the cost of a normal extra receiver, even when he takes it on trips.

Given that the farm house is at the same location as the landlord's house, and since he owns both structures, I would think that you have a shot at piggybacking the service. It would probably be best if it were something that he called to arrange and such though, since he is the actual owner, and I'm uncertain as to which connection you would need (separate dish installed or just running cable and amplifier).

 

[Nutriaitch]

I'm not familiar with Dish's service, but I know my dad has direcTv in his beach house and was able to piggyback the service for his boat. I guess it was considered to part of the same location since the boat is docked at that residence. He did have to pay to have a separate mobile satellite system installed on the boat, but is able to watch the programming for the cost of a normal extra receiver, even when he takes it on trips.

Given that the farm house is at the same location as the landlord's house, and since he owns both structures, I would think that you have a shot at piggybacking the service. It would probably be best if it were something that he called to arrange and such though, since he is the actual owner, and I'm uncertain as to which connection you would need (separate dish installed or just running cable and amplifier).

Piggybacking is easy to do. I have a spare dish set up on a tripod that I bring to football games with me. I use one of my receivers from home. Works great. I have also brought it to other peoples houses for game parties. All he needs is a receiver activated on the landlords account. And then like I said, either get his own dish, or get the amplifier, and connect to the landlords dish.

 

[jwinslow]

Any idea what an hd dish costs from a 3rd party? Once I buy that equipment, is there any monthly charge for a 2nd dish?

Ok this is what you can do wich would be legal and not against the rules.

The landlord can call and have a second receiver added to the account with it going into the farm hand house that your living in because it is his building on his property and dish cant say anything against it. To make things easy it would be best for you to go to the hardware store such as lowes or home depot and buy a box of burial rg - 6 coax in the 1000ft length and bury the coax from where the dish is at to the farm hand house your in. The coax only has to go down a couple inches though with the drive way you'll want to bury it probably 10 inches down and in pvc conduit to protect it from the weight of vehicles. If there is a switch built into the dish system at your landlords place then thats where the start of the cable should be and the other end should end on the outside wall of your rental building, it would be a good idea to run two lengths of cable to the building both for a back up and just incase its needed for the box that your going to have in your place.

Have the landlord include the price of the additional receiver fee and increase in programming for that box into your monthly rent and everything will be fine. The landlord will most likely have to sign a contract for the receiver to be added on so you might want to consider buying wich ever hd box you want from dishstore.net ( Claude will take care of you ) and avoide the contract for your landlord and just have him put it on his account.

Here's the answer I got over there.

 

[Nutriaitch]

Any idea what an hd dish costs from a 3rd party? Once I buy that equipment, is there any monthly charge for a 2nd dish?

Here's a website I just found. (DirecTv, not Dish) but it will give you at least a ball park price range.
HDTV Receivers, TV Antennas, Satellite Dishes

With DirecTv, they don't charge me anything extra. I don't think they know I tote 2 extra dishes around town.

 

[jwinslow]

Thanks! I may see what Dish would do cost wise to install another one, but that looks like a doable option. Between the cost of the cables & the trouble of burying them, the dish sounds like a much better option.