Does it really cost $119 to move a wire?

:banghead: Call it being a typical female, but on the day we were moving into our new house the dish guy came and asked were the T.V. was and with out thinking I pointed him to the T.V that we didn't want hooked up. Unfortunately the huge T.V. we had didn't fit up the stairs to go into the living room, so I had the movers put it into the tiny bedroom (basement) on the ground floor. It barely fit with a love seat. To make a long story short, the dish guy hooked up the monster T.V., but now we want the reciever hooked up to the T.V. that we now have in the living room instead.

They haven't come out yet, it's been two weeks, and now they're saying that it's going to cost us $119 to move the wire. Is it not as simple as connecting the wire to the right coaxile port out side the house? Do they really have to rewire the house?

It is not cheap to have a tech come out to your house. Tech wages, insurance, vehicle cost , and gas the $119 is no where close to make up for all that but its a start. If you already have the wiring to the room you want it in and you can identify that cable and the room where it is comming out of and you feel confrotable trying your self give it a shot. You may end up saving some money.

It is not cheap to have a tech come out to your house. Tech wages, insurance, vehicle cost , and gas the $119 is no where close to make up for all that but its a start. If you already have the wiring to the room you want it in and you can identify that cable and the room where it is comming out of and you feel confrotable trying your self give it a shot. You may end up saving some money.

Is it as easy as identifying the cable that runs from the upstairs to the outside and plugging the Dish into that cable? Where would I begin?

I presume you have a central location where all the coax in the house is connected.

Hopefully the cable in the house is RG-6 capable of carrying 2100 MHz signal needed for satellite (higher frequencies than cable). If so, you can find it by trial and error, hook up a cable and see if it works, try another, etc.

If the cable is RG-59 or cheap RG-6 it may need to be replaced. If you feel industrious, figure out how far it is to the new TV location and buy some satellite rated RG-6 coax at Wal-Mart and run the cable yourself. The ends of the RG-6 are about 1/2 inch so you'll need to drill 1/2 inch holes and seal around them if you do it yourself.

Try what you have, if it works great, if not plan B.

If there is a cable jack in the room you want to use, you probably won't need re-wiring.
Find the cable that goes to your basement room (you're not going to use it right?). Disconnect one at a time until you see "searching for satellite signal" on the screen.

Label that cable and set it aside. Move the receiver to the living room TV and set it up so that you are again seeing the "Searching for Satellite" message.

One by one, hook up the additional cables, each time running "Check Switch" from the satellite menu. ("Menu", "6", "1", "1", "check switch".)
Stop when you have dish back. (When you get the correct cable, the TV will probably already have dish picture on it when you get to it. Still run check switch to be sure the system is working correctly.)

If there isn't a jack in the living room, $119.00 isn't unreasonable.
Happy HD hunting!
Highdef Jeff