Cable TV to shop

[ALinCarolina]

My new shop being built is 350 ft. from my house. I have read several of the topics on getting Wifi to the shop but is there a way to get cable TV signal to the shop. I think I would like to be able to have a football game on while working there on weekends.
I can put up an antenna for the local networks but some of the games I want to watch are on ESPN, SEC football channel, etc. It's not worth getting a separate account and have TimeWarner bury a cable from the terminal. Is there a coaxial cable large enough to run from a splitter in the house that far? Or can the TV signal somehow be sent by ethernet cable or Ubiquiti beam?

 

[NUTTSGT]

Are you running ppower from the house to the new shop ? If you are, when they trench for the power, throw a secondary pvc conduit (3/4" oughta be big enough) and run your coax, data cable (internet) and a string for future pulls in it.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Are you running ppower from the house to the new shop ? If you are, when they trench for the power, throw a secondary pvc conduit (3/4" oughta be big enough) and run your coax, data cable (internet) and a string for future pulls in it.

350' is technically too far for ethernet/Category cabling but it may still work and I have ran cable longer than that.

As far as coax for the TV, the OP will need coax that is very large. RG6 isnt gonna cut it. U can try RG11 but its expensive and u may still need an amplifier.

 

[CNGsaves]

OP . . . might as well commit to putting ORANGE conduit in trench . . .
. . .. for FIBER . . . . there is GJer who will chime in with the details !!

 

[wyliesdiesels]

OP . . . might as well commit to putting ORANGE conduit in trench . . .
. . .. for FIBER . . . . there is GJer who will chime in with the details !!

Yeah with fiber the OP could extend an HDMI signal from a cable box in his house out to the garage.

There are HDMI extenders that can extend the IR signal of a remote.

 

[Richard Cranium]

My brother in law had the dish guy put in a separate dish for the garage. They don't charge him for the second dish.

 

[Fixin'Stuff]

Nerd alert! I have a PC in the house that acts as a DVR, with 5 networked tuners. It's using NextPVR software (free) and can send TV over the network to any PC in the house or garage. I just plug a TV into the HDMI output on a PC and instant DVR. So if you're going to have a PC in the garage, then you just need a cheap video card that has an HDMI output. Plug it into the network and watch whatever you want.

 

[ALinCarolina]

Thanks guys. Sounds like I need to find someone that knows how to set up optical fiber. I am assuming it could send both Wifi and HDMI. The shop will have its own power and meter but I will doing a lot of trenching for irrigation, etc. anyway.
If anybody knows of someone to do fiber in the Charlotte, NC area, let me know. I can ask the electrician and other subs if they know of anyone.

 

[deerhunter88]

was going to post this same scenario this morning. We have Directv. This run will be close to 200' from the dish. What cable is needed here and can it be ran in same conduit as the power going to bldg or will that cause interference?

 

[79firebird]

Get a cable line booster setup right befor it exit's the house and it should work fine. Did that to my buddys shop and its 500 feet from the house. We used rg6 and its been fine for over 10 years.

 

[Hawk]

Howdy Neighbor.
Unless you just want to go with fiber cable to stay on the top of the line, 79firebird should be right. A booster should be able to push the signal with minimum loss. Use to live in the Hickory Grove area of Charlotte, enjoy the town.

 

[ALinCarolina]

One of the reasons I was thinking I could run coax is that the shop is about half the way from the cable terminal to the house. Here is a photo of the cable from the terminal to the house which is about a 750 ft. run. What size does this look like?

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Looks like rg400 or 600.

That stuff is pricey

 

[ALinCarolina]

I did a search and I think I saw the RG400 at about $5 a foot. Yikes.
The booster sounds like a possibility and what I saw on a search was inexpensive. What would worry me the possibility of laying 350 ft. of RG11 and then not get a good signal.

I have no idea how much an optical fiber system costs.

 

[bowhuntr311]

Yea that looks like 500 or 540 un-armored?

With RG-11 your gonna loose roughly 5db per 100ft. In a perfect world you wanna hit your TV at 0 db. You need to know what your getting into your house at for a db level and that type of question would be best asked of an installer/line tech. NOT someone who answers the phone. Residential amplifiers areNOT terribly expensive and may do what you need if its to low.

Good luck.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

I did a search and I think I saw the RG400 at about $5 a foot. Yikes.
The booster sounds like a possibility and what I saw on a search was inexpensive. What would worry me the possibility of laying 350 ft. of RG11 and then not get a good signal.

I have no idea how much an optical fiber system costs.

Then theres the tools to terminate the ends which arent cheap either.

And for fiber, u would need the tools to terminate as well but u could get a pair of media converters (fiber to copper) for relatively inexpensive then use a cheap gigabit switch.

Perhaps u could pull the fiber and then pay someone to terminate it.

Ive done both methods of fiber termination but its definitely something that takes practice and experience. Definitely not a first timer job.

 

[ALinCarolina]

Thanks for the help. I'll ask around for someone that works with fiber.

 

[jeffmoss26]

That looks like hardline coax. It uses some massive screw together connectors with pins that look like a syringe needle.

 

[weadjust]

We have Directv. This run will be close to 200' from the dish.

A second Directv dish is less than a $100.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

My brother in law had the dish guy put in a separate dish for the garage. They don't charge him for the second dish.

The OP has cable TV service NOT satellite service.

 

[pgray007]

Once you get Internet out there, you could put a Roku box on your TV. I just streamed the Panthers game this afternoon in my garage with Roku and the Fox Sports app.


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[ALinCarolina]

I'll have to look into Roku, I've heard the name but not familiar with it. Can you get ESPN and most other cable channels?
We listened to the Panthers game this afternoon while working in the present shop. Boy, they really stunk up the joint today.

 

[pgray007]

You can get somewhat regular cable, but for the most part you're using "apps" rather than channels. For example I watched that terrible game with the Fox Sports app, and watched the Olympics on the NBC Sports App. You can also get more traditional "channels" through various means but that might require another subscription. If you're ever south of CLT and want to see my setup shoot me a PM.


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[slimcake]

I thought that game was excellent!! Two weeks in a row making good qb's look totally lost!! Love it. Oh and I would go with the Roku as well....