[PJ-Comix]

Do you install them or sell them? I used to just sell the dishes and a team from the company would install the dishes.

p.s. My all-time record was THREE sales in one day. Actually it's impossible to beat that since you can only call on about three customers in one day.

[Noumenon]

Both. I make no money on the gear. There's a residual on the monthly fee that's not much more than chump change, but it adds up as your installtion accumulate. Other than that, I make $200 bux on the install fee, and what ever else that comes up in the way of general network and security consulting.

One of the reasons I got into this is that the local installers do the crappiest work I've ever seen. Squirrels would do a better job. So I use premium cable, premium connectors, and I use the right tools to do the job. So my stuff works, and it keeps working.

To certain extent, installation is non-trivial. Since the outbound and inbound signals are co-polarized, you MUST get the antenna properly tuned and skewed and gegt it right the first time. Failure to do so hoses up the satellite for everyone else. People in the StarBand Network Ops Center become deeply saddened when that happens. It ain't Dish Network.