ᐅ Multiswitch for Satellite TV: Install in the Attic or Basement?

Hello everyone,

What are your thoughts on the best location for installing the satellite multiswitch? Does it make more sense to place it in the unheated attic space or in the technical room in the basement?
The house will have two full floors with a shallow pitched roof (unheated attic) and a basement.

Advantages of the attic:
- Less signal loss, since the multiswitch is close to the satellite dish
- Less cabling effort, as most connections are on the upper floor (3x twin outlets). This allows the rooms to be connected directly. Ground floor (2x twin), basement (1x twin)
- Satellite cables between the multiswitch and the satellite dish are easier to replace if they fail after several years

Advantages of the basement:
- Fewer penetrations through the vapor barrier in the top floor ceiling
- All technical equipment is located in the basement technical room

Thank you for your opinions and suggestions.

It's probably a matter of preference...

For basements (at least for us), it is usually easier to access. Typically, more outlets are planned than connections to the multiswitch. This way, you can easily switch later on.

For the basement:

If a cable connection is planned additionally or might be added in the future, the distribution should be set up directly there.

Be careful with cable connections: the cables are only allowed to have 95 dB, otherwise the technician is not permitted to connect them. We installed 120 dB cables.

Only satellite TV is available; there is no cable TV in the area at all.

We also have the distribution in the attic. This made the cable routing easier.
You don’t really need to access it that often, so it doesn’t have to be easily reachable.