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Originally Posted by Bill-n-Brillo
Oren, pass the popcorn, please! 
You can have both. Your new home will be set up with coax cabling from a low-voltage panel in your garage going to each room. It should all be "home run" cables to each room - one cable from the box to one room, another cable for another, etc. - not chained together going from room to room. Those coaxes can be used for satellite service, cable service, or internet......but only one service to a room. Cables from outside the house will feed the signal(s) to your low-voltage panel for distribution. It's really a very flexible and cleaner set up the way the new homes are being done now - - - versus having all the cables terminating outside, all jammed into a really small box for connection.
Best thing to do for internet is to pick a room where you're not going to have television and use that room for the modem and then set up a wireless router (or get them combined as one unit - depends on what options the internet provider offers) as long as your computer(s) are all capable of connecting via wireless. No big deal to address them if they're not.
Check DirecTV's web site for how their "Whole Home DVR" set-up works:
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/conten...-1&lpos=header
Hope that helps!
Bill  |
Just an add on to this:
Direct tv will have to run a new cable into the house to connect to that splitter. That will leave the Comcast connection loose. If there is room you can place the modem/wireless router right there or have them run a cable to the laundry room or garage and place the internet connection there. just be sure to enable the security on the wireless