Help with Sky dish wires

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StuTheGrouch

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5,714 posts

161 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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This will probably seem really straight forward to some on here, but I could do with some help.

I have a Sky dish on my house with the two cables from from the dish into my living room and into the back of the Sky box. What I also have is three other cables in the living room, with the other ends appearing in the kitchen and two of the bedrooms upstairs. I presume that these are supposed to run from the Sky box and into the TVs elsewhere- I have tried this but haven't succeeded.

I have cancelled Sky now and will be buying a HS Freesat box, probably this one. This has two inlets, which is for the 2x tuners.

How can I set this up so that I can watch freesat upstairs? I don't mind buying separate boxes if needs be. Do I need to buy a splitter for one of the 'in' cables?

(Sorry for the terminology)



VEX

5,256 posts

245 months

Friday 28th August 2015
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Unfortunately it can't be split like you do with a uhf freeview aerial.

For freesat and sky boxes each receiver needs its own deditated feeds from the dish.

What you would have had with the sky box is a 'rf2' connection which would have sent the single to the other tv's as a TV channel which the tv's then tune into.

You can still do this with the new freesat box, but it will be an external box to generate the TV signal and sort out the ir control and then a splitter or amplifier to share it to the tv's

Does that help?

V.

StuTheGrouch

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Friday 28th August 2015
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That does help, thanks. I did read somewhere (after posting the OP) that I couldn't split the coaxial cables (http://www.uk-satellite-tv.co.uk/satellitefaults.html).

On that link it states that the LNB in the sky dish can be changed. Is that possible?

What hardware could I buy to make this possible?

FlossyThePig

4,083 posts

242 months

Saturday 29th August 2015
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Do you have easy access to the satellite dish? If you are lucky Sky will have fitted a quad LNB with four connectors so you can add a couple of extra simple receiver STB in other rooms. That means extra cables from the dish though.

There is a lot of useful information on the SatCure website.

StuTheGrouch

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Saturday 29th August 2015
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FlossyThePig said:
Do you have easy access to the satellite dish? If you are lucky Sky will have fitted a quad LNB with four connectors so you can add a couple of extra simple receiver STB in other rooms. That means extra cables from the dish though.

There is a lot of useful information on the SatCure website.
Thanks for that. I can access the dish quite easily so I'll have a look; fortunately the dish and living room access are on the same wall about 3 metres apart, so new cables wouldn't be an issue.


StuTheGrouch

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Saturday 29th August 2015
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FlossyThePig said:
There is a lot of useful information on the SatCure website.
Another thanks- that is an awesome website!