 KoilPremium
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Irmo, SC | Concerning MDU's and satellites My apartment complex, along with many others, suppress people from getting any type of satellite service. Not because of some exclusive deal they struck up with a cable company, but due to the fact that they don't want a bunch of half assed installed DirecTV dishes sitting on cinder blocks, with cables hanging all over the place on everyones back deck, or even worse, front porch.
It would look like a ghetto fab, mini-satellite farm or something.
I'm sure some places are locked into deals and such, but I have to agree that having all of those little dishes everywhere would look like a fat bag of asses.
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| I'm pretty sure there's a law on the books that prohibit that type of ban on sat equipment.
They can forbid you from bolting it to the physical building, but nothing else as I recall.
I think that rule falls under the FCC's control as well. Might wanna check up on it if you want to get a dish. 
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And if the apartment complex was smart, they'd get a professional to install a dish or two on each building, and run coax from multiswitches so that everyone in a single building can be fed from one or two dishes.
If the tenant decides to get DirecTV or Dish Network, the complex hooks their coax input to the sat multiswich. If the customer wants cable, the complex hooks their coax input to the cable company's tap.
I don't know why more apartment complexes don't get a dish installed per building and feed people off of multiswitches if they want the service. It is ridiculous to see apartment buildings that have a dish on every balcony, or a row of dishes lined up on the ground. Especially when multiswitches have been available for so long.
HOA's could do the same thing for townhomes or row houses. One dish per unit, instead of one for each house. |
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