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[simonuk]

Hi, sorry for bothering you all but i need help lol I have just built my house and now have a huge mortgage i am trying to pay off, anyway i was wondering if you could give me some advise on my sky, i have a dish on the outside of my house for sky plus with 2 coax cables into the loft then 4 cables from the loft down to the lounge (some are spare because i asked for extras just in case sky ever changes). in the loft there is also 3 more coax's which are 1 to each bedroom, there is also a phone cable down in the lounge for the sky. The problem is i dont know how to connect any of them, I want the sky box in the lounge and then a return back upto the loft to feed the others, All my stuff is MK in my house and want to use the same stuff for the sky, any advice you have would be greatly appreciated, on tv fittings for the bedrooms and lounge and for the loft, thanks very much for any help

[Rave]

Welcome to Hexus, glad to have you.

I think you might get a bit more of a response posting on a forum with a narrower focus, like digitalspy- they have a specific satellite technical issue subforum. Nonetheless I have some experience with Sky boxes having set up a couple for my technically illiterate mate, so I'll do my best to answer your question.

I was under the impression that each satellite receiver had to have a separate cable to the LNB on the dish to function correctly as the signal level is so low. I'm not sure how splitting two cables from the dish into four in the attic is going to work.

Then you ask how to send the signal from your lounge to the rest of the house. Sky boxes have an RF output which you can use with any conventional coax to feed a signal to anywhere else you fancy. However the output is just the same channel the sky box is displaying to the TV it's directly connected to. You can control the sky box remotely using a 'Sky Eye'. This is what my mate does- he just has the one sky box (now a Sky HD box in fact) in his front room. In his bedroom he has another TV connected to the sky box by coax which I ran from his front room to his bedroom. The quality isn't great (it's the equivalent of watching analogue TV via an aerial after all) but he's happy enough for a bit of late night bedroom viewing. If you want the same channel showing in three bedrooms, that'd be possible too, just use a signal splitter/amplifier if necessary.

If you want to watch different channels in different rooms you need more than one Sky box. And in that case, each sky box should be connected directly to the satellite dish with its own cable (or two cables in the case of Sky+).

Congratulations on building your own house BTW, that's my long term plan too.

[Salazaar]

If you have a huge morgage to be honest I'd bite the bullet, not bother with Sky at all and get a Freesat box, much cheaper in the long run!

[simonuk]

thanks for all the help

[Lucio]

Wow, what some people will do for free shipping from Scan...

[Will404]

Wow, what some people will do for free shipping from Scan...

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[burrellhead]

if you rung up sky somehow im sure they would help you