Help with Sky dish wires
Discussion
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)
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)
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?
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 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.There is a lot of useful information on the SatCure website.
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