Newbie question about DISH setup

I'm building a new house. It's a duplex. My family will live on one side, and my parents on the other. I've always had Comcast, but just found out Comcast is not available in this area so we're looking at satellite. I don't really know the difference between DirectTV and Dish, but I know you can get more receivers with Dish, so I guess we would probably be better off sharing the bill with both sides but I'm open to suggestions.

Does anyone know if there is a cable that needs to be run from the dish to.....wherever it needs to go? If so, I would much prefer them to run this cable before our walls get put up so that it can be run through the inside of the house rather than running on the outside of the house.

I've never had satellite, and am basically looking for an education on it. I have high def everything and am hoping that satellite TV will work well.

Also, what does Dish offer for internet? I really need high speed internet because I work in IT and do a lot of work from home....

Internet

Satellite internet isn't a huge step up from dial-up. If you're lucky I suppose on a good day it would be like very basic DSL but usually it's a small step up from dial-up.

It sounds like you'd need a commercial service because I doubt the regular offerings would suffice. Attaching a 1meg file via hotmail can take 15 minutes on a bad day so I'd look at other options.

I use both services at work a lot. It's like walking through treacle when the weather is bad. The service from both Dish and Direct are pretty similar.

If you are building, the best way to go is to run a "home run" cable from each room you want tv. Your electrician will know what that is if you don't. As far as internet, check to see if you qualify for DSL or cable. Go with one of those instead if you can. If you go with cable, install an extra home run line to the room that you are going to put you modem in.

Run at least 3 RG-6 cables to each room and 3-4 from the satellite location to the central distribution.

Also run CAT-5 and CAT-6 cables to each room from the central distribution local.

You can never have too many cables - in case one fails.