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| Thread ID: 77401 | 2007-03-08 06:06:00 | First Satellite Broadband Install | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 531214 | 2007-03-08 06:06:00 | Did our first satellite broadband install today, stuck .84m dish up, attached TX/RX bit, cabled, calibrated etc. Only took 5 hours, haha. Next one should take 1 hour......... I've got (as a bonus) a huge sheep roast for dinner for tomorrow too. She's getting 1.7Mbps. Not bad at all. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 531215 | 2007-03-08 06:09:00 | usually its 1 hour to install the dish, 4 hours to repair the pc so it works :( 1.7Mbs, not bad but still not anywhere near the orignal ihug used to run at. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 531216 | 2007-03-08 06:28:00 | usually its 1 hour to install the dish, 4 hours to repair the pc so it works :( 1.7Mbs, not bad but still not anywhere near the orignal ihug used to run at. Ah, but these are metric Mbs, Ihug was imperial, and left handed too. :groan: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 531217 | 2007-03-08 14:09:00 | used to work for a sky sub contracting outfit......altho it wasn't my job to istall dishes I did go out on quite a few jobs with my mates who were installers....takes a bit of learning how to run cables inside existing walls etc and the dish alignment had to be very precise as only a degree out would seriously degrade signal strength.....so also the dish's had to be attached VERy firmly......used to take approx 1-1.5 hours per job on average I think and the installer got about $130 per job gross I believe.......they did ok some months when there was a 'drive' to sign up new users.... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 531218 | 2007-03-08 14:11:00 | ps: running cables down inside walls to place jackpoints near existing ones: ....open up the say powerjack point and tie some wire onto one of the wires that go to it.........then pull it up to the ceiling where you then tie your wire onto it to pull it down again........use dishwash liquid as a lubricant to help get both wires thru holes drilled in studs etc...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 531219 | 2007-03-08 20:12:00 | No all the time was cutting down a tree, attaching the dish, amending the stays, breaking the masonery drill bits, finding another one etc etc. While I wandered about passing things, looking for dropped bolts in the shrubbery etc. The calibrating took only a short time and the PC part about 5 minutes. I used to do structured cabling at Akld Uni so I know all about pulling cables through walls. Not that I did that, husband crawled under the house with the cables while I waited by the floor holes. :-) Husband balanced on ladders dropping bolts and breaking drill bits too. I get the pleasant parts - playing with laptop and shouting out left, up etc. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 531220 | 2007-03-09 06:03:00 | out of interest.... sky allow 2.5 hours to install a dish. if you get easy homes its really easy to get it done in under an hour (that includeds putting the dish together). get a hard one, 5 hours is not uncomman. makes you wonder how well they are done when some guys crank out 10 a day including driving all round the country side. lets just say there are numerous homes that have been damaged by dodgy installs :( aerial cables in power cable holes.......ewwww (not to mention partly illegal). |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 531221 | 2007-03-09 06:41:00 | out of interest.... sky allow 2.5 hours to install a dish. Its massively bigger than a Sky dish, and more parts to assemble. And they wouldn't care if we took all day and all night - its paid per install not per hour. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 531222 | 2007-03-09 08:39:00 | Its massively bigger than a Sky dish, and more parts to assemble. And they wouldn't care if we took all day and all night - its paid per install not per hour. depends on the dish a bit. even the bigger ones are not any harder with exception of ones like the wingard 1m dishes. very heavy for its size and the poles are generally fairly heavy duty. a lot of the 90's i've used are really light weight and work fine on standard 60's mounts. the lightweight ones are easy to put together, the heavier ones are a little more involved, maybe another 10min to assemble. the contracting penpushers did care how long it took, they wanted them in soon as possible (customers don't start paying until its installed ;) ). so much so they used to send mickymouse contractors (under threat of no work ever) out to do rough installs. you can guess who spend months cleaning up their mess and putting up with all the scraps when the customers wanted them to pay for their house repairs etc. and of course the mickymouse contractors got to foot the bill for the repairs. welcome to the world of contracting. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 531223 | 2007-03-10 06:34:00 | used to work for a sky sub contracting outfit . . . . . . altho it wasn't my job to istall dishes I did go out on quite a few jobs with my mates who were installers . . . . takes a bit of learning how to run cables inside existing walls etc and the dish alignment had to be very precise as only a degree out would seriously degrade signal strength . . . . . so also the dish's had to be attached VERy firmly . . . . . . used to take approx 1-1 . 5 hours per job on average I think and the installer got about $130 per job gross I believe . . . . . . . they did ok some months when there was a 'drive' to sign up new users . . . . Wait wait wait . You worked for sky and you ran the cables inside the walls? That doesn't sound like a sky contractor to me! Sky contractors do nasty things like running cables down the outside of the walls and just drill through to where the sky point is to go . In one house I saw cables hanging from the corner of the room (yes from the ceiling) just out from the scotia . So so friggn ugly . |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
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