Just a note from an experienced electronic technician about satellite cables. I run a Dish Network VIP722 Dual tuner receiver, feeding 2 TV's in my Bighorn. The past couple of years I have been fighting intermittent differing signal levels to the 2 tuners, sometimes certain channels went out, and although the RG-6 always checked out with a meter for no breaks or shorts, I finally tried a NEW single RG-6 cable from the dish antenna running DIRECTLY to the splitter feeding the tuner - in other words, I bypassed all of the Heartland in the walls RG-6 coax. The system has never worked better. I run the cable from the dish through a window directly to the Dish receiver in the entertainment center.
So much of reception and distribution of the very high frequency/bandwidth satellite signals depends on a quality coax connection with wide bandwidth capabilities, and coax can degrade over time. Only very expensive specialized equipment can measure this frequency bandwidth parameter on coax cable.
if someone wants to research and post details, please do! I keep getting stuck in a loop.
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