[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Satellite is so much more superior than cable, that I don't have any idea why anyone would continue on with the antiquated cable service.

I'd like to go satelite, but I'm not turning my place into swiss cheese just to wire up the minimum 4 places that I want the service to. Let them upgrade to the 21st century by going wireless, then we'll talk.

[Space Wrangler]

If your home is wired for cable, you can use those existing connections for your satellite service. Like you, I didn't know that until the guy actually came to install the dish. (when the cable company raised our bill for the thrid time in 8 mos. it was the last straw, and I was dropping them wires or not!) Also, like you, that reason had kept me from going satellite as well. The only wire he had to run was from the satellite dish down to the cable junction box. My satellite boxes plug into the wall jacks where my cable once came in. I get probably 30% more channels with satellite that I got with cable, about 20 more music channel choices, 70 Pay-per-view channels. The clencher, however, is the 10 channels of childrens programming vs cable's three. If you're not going satellite because you think you'll have wires running everywhere, think again! I can't stress enough how much better satellite is than cable.