Sorry to make this urgent. Dish Networking is coming tomorrow morning to install their service with the VIP722 Receiver. I will have it connected to an HDTV, and using the Modulated Coax out to a Standard Def TV upstairs. The only thing is, the technician will need to run a Coax cable from the 722 about 40' and connect to the cable that runs upstairs, and that distance is about 60' or so. So, in total, there will be about 100' of Coax Cable from the 722 to the Standard Def TV. Will this modulated signal to TV2 be ok, or is this distance too great?

I really don't want him running another "shorter' cable and drill in my floor, etc. to run another cable. The Receiver will be about 40' from the SD TV, but I already have a HOMERUN cable from the upstairs TV to the basement, it's just a cable needs to run to the other end of the house from the 722 to connect to it, then back to the other end and upstairs.

Anyone? The technician will be here in about 3 hours. I'm just wondering if ~100' of Coax out of the 722 to the second TV is too great of a distance for the modulated signal.

EDIT: My SD TV has the AUX input as well as the VHF/UFH input. For the modulated signal out of the 722, which of the inputs would it use? I would assume the AUX as the VHF/UHF is for antenna, but not certain.

100' should be no problem. I have even seen people state that the modulated output is too strong and have had to put in an attenuator for a really short run. I have a maybe 70' run.

Rick R

100' should be no problem. I have even seen people state that the modulated output is too strong and have had to put in an attenuator for a really short run. I have a maybe 70' run.

Rick R

Sorry to be so late to my own thread. I had a really bad experience with the Contractor that came to install the 1000.4 dish with the 722 receiver. 5 hours, and he couldn't figure out how to get it working. The story is long, so I won't get into it, but a "Dish Tech" is supposed to be at my house on Wed. While the first tech was there, he had a signal for a second, and I was getting the picture on my SD TV upstairs, and he had it on channel 73. It was very snowy and jumpy. He said he would go down to a channel in the 60s and that should fix it. Anyway, I finally had to ask the man to leave (couldn't get it working, he was fowl mouth, and was conducting illegal business at my house on the cell phone).

Since the guy was clueless about everything else, I don't know whether or now what he said about changing the channel to the 60s would have helped the picture on the SD TV. Again, he had it on 73, and the picture had so much snow on it, it was unwatchable.