Installation

If the existing wiring in your house is RG-6 coax cable, you can use it to connect your DIRECTV Receiver to your satellite dish. If your existing wiring is not RG-6 coax cable, you will need to have the installer run new wiring. It is important that you use RG-6 coax cable, due to the frequency of the digital signals it must carry.

Customers need to connect their receivers to a landline phone for billing and pay per view purposes. The connection sends purchase information from the receiver to DIRECTV's computer system. With the phone connection, DIRECTV customers can order Pay Per View movies and events with their remote control, get popular sports subscriptions such as NFL Sunday Ticket, and can have the programming subscription on their main receiver "mirrored" to other receivers that are connected to the same phone line.

A modem inside of your receiver makes a toll-free call to DIRECTV's computer system in the middle of the night. The modem's call only lasts a few seconds and if you are using the phone, it will try again later.

You can get separate DIRECTV Receivers for the number of TV sets in your home that you want to hook up. This gives you the flexibility of watching different DIRECTV® programs on different television sets. If all of your DIRECTV Receivers are connected to the same landline phone, it's only $4.99 a month for programming on the second and each additional receiver in your home.

 You can connect more than one TV in a single household to DIRECTV services. If your receivers are connected to the same phone line, it's only $4.99 a month for programming on the second and each additional receiver in your home. The programming you request for the primary access card in your receiver is copied for all of the access cards in the other receivers and you are authorized to receive this same level of programming on these televisions.

On very rare occasions in some areas, severe weather conditions may interrupt your signal for a moment, but it always returns quickly and clearly.