Wiring sky box from under stairs to open plan room via cat 6
Wiring sky box from under stairs to open plan room via cat 6
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dugg50

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1 posts

85 months

Tuesday 5th March 2019
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Hi All

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.
I am building at the moment and decided to wire cat 6 cables all around house and plan is to put sky box along with any other platform in uderstairs and connect via the cat 6 cables by using apadters.

For for instance we have 4 cat 6 cables running from under stairs behind walls to back of tv area in open plan. These cat 6 cables are terminated behind a wall plate with rj45 connectors as per image attached.

The reason we did this was to hide any platform boxes and wires. My question now is how do I connect to tv from wall plate and then how do I connect the cat 6 cables to sky box under stairs?

I was told I could get hdmi connectors but not fully sure which etc so any advice would be great.

The plan in other rooms is similar but nothing will go here for a good while.

Cheers for any info

illmonkey

19,628 posts

222 months

Tuesday 5th March 2019
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You want something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extender-Repeater-Functio...

you can spend a lot more, but these are fine for normal TV. If you have 4K then you may want better ones with 2 network ports on them.

VEX

5,259 posts

270 months

Tuesday 5th March 2019
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The more expensive ones use an industry standard spec called HDBT or HDbaseT

They use a single Cat6 cable and can do 4k to 40/70 or even 100m depending spec etc.

They can also power both units from only one end, pass IR, RS232, HDR to 8 & 12bit, break out Audio, pass Network and even offer 3 network ports at the receive end.

So it depend what you need.


Andeh1

7,508 posts

230 months

Tuesday 5th March 2019
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We have the below throughout, they work well!

HDMI Extender HDbaseT HDbitT Two-way PoE & IR, Uncompressed 4Kx2K@60Hz over Single CAT5e / 6, HDR & Dobly Vision+HDCP2.2+RS232, 70M(230ft) 1080P, 40M(130ft) 4K, Dolby Atmos & DTS:X https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N5BWOAZ/ref=cm_sw_r...

justin220

5,668 posts

228 months

Wednesday 6th March 2019
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Also have that HDBaseT one ^^ Very good!