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  1. M

    sky q multi room insufficent info from sky

    hiya folks i have been looking at upgrading to sky q but unfortunately it wont suit my needs as we currently have 5 boxes in the house with 2 dishes as follows livingroom sky + hd box with coax slave to dinning room / kitchen bedroom 1 sky+ hd box bedroom 2 sky+ hd box bedroom 3 sky+ hd box...
  2. L

    Sky not worth the money

    Just seen this "From 1st February 2017 Sky may remove Discovery Communications’ portfolio of channels. DMAX, Animal Planet, ID, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Discovery Shed, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery History, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo, Discovery, TLC and Quest. Sky can't agree...
  3. G

    SKY HDMI CABLE HELP

    Hi there, I have run a brand new 50ft HDMI cable which is good quality and has built in booster to run from my main sky box which is in another room from the main TV I use. The cable etc is all ok as I have tested it with DVD player and Sky Q box which I took from a neighbour however when I...
  4. A

    Installing Coax, Sky Cables and TV Booster

    Hi, I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction to learning a bit more about installing Coax and Sky cables and the arrangement from the sky dish, antenna, booster and TV points. I have installed this plenty of times but have always been told what cable goes where and then a TV...
  5. Soulsurfer

    Sky dish split

    Hey all I've not done much satellite work and want to find out if always need a say quad or onto LNB to feed out from dish to multiple sky+ digiboxes or is there a way such as an antiference style digiamp that you leave in loft and then connect say one shotgun coax to from the dish and drop to...
  6. M

    Never again. Co-ax Problems

    Ok. So split 1 house into 2. Was going to install a loftbox in both house, but couldnt get them to work. Have gone back to normal aerial amps. So feed from Aerial goes to amp to split to go to each house. TV in furthest house has good signal as tv has a built in booster. Come back from RF2...
  7. Dan

    This Week On Psn: No Man's Sky

    Every week, Sony drops a bunch of new stuff onto the PlayStation Network. Those with a PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita can download these goodies, which include PSN games, movies, themes and more. Take a look at this week's highlights below! NEW GAME RELEASES Continue reading…
  8. R

    Sky TV - Cable, advice please

    Hi, I am quoting a job for power/cable to accommodate 4 Sky boxes (1 in living room, 3 bedroom) The cable i'm looking at is the Twinned coax cable, allowing Sky +. Am i correct saying each cable must run to the dish, or can i run all 4 coax into a splitter? I'm allowing Power Cat 5 Twinned...
  9. E

    Sky issue after moving

    Quick question about sky when moving house. I don't have a sky subscription just use my box for freesat (if thats what you call it) anyway, moved to a new build block of flats plugged my two ends in to the sat point and no signal. I took off the face plate and connected the cables straight...
  10. Midwest

    Long HDMI cable, Sky to TV

    I'm just finishing a part rewire on a friends house that's been extended. He extended the kitchen into a new lean to style conservatory. In the conservatory, he's positioned new TV. He wanted to watch Sky on the new TV, but didn't want to buy another Sky box and pay for multi room. Not being an...
  11. Hellmooth

    Sky and telephone points

    Doing a rewire and need to sort a couple of sky points and reroute the BT master point, haven't done it before, few questions I would appreciate some help with. 1) need to run sky cable to 2 points, is rg6 the cable I need? 2) is standard 4 pair telephone cable ok for the bt master point? 3)...
  12. Lou7

    Sky plus to nine positions.

    Is this possible and what hardware is needed ? I'm installing in a new build and want to run the cables in.
  13. stidge

    sky plus switch or loft box ?

    Hi All, Ive posted before about this but is now completed need some advice please. we have 6 shotgun cables wired to loft, at minute 3 sky+ boxes are connected. we would like to keep as is but would like to have secondary sky to 3 other positions. I realise now I could have wired from RF out on...
  14. T

    Sky confusion?

    afternoon gents, long time since my last post but hopefully someone can help me out? Got a question for you guys as I can't get hold of sky at all! I'm a spark and I'm wiring a house for a customer and I'm running all the sky cables (shotgun Webro) but I don't know weather to run them all to...
  15. S

    HD Sky over cat 5

    Hi, Trying to transmit High Definition Sky to the TV using Cat 5 cable. Has anyone done this before? Do you suggest any particular type or brand of Converters that support IR as well? Many thanks, Sean
  16. S

    £250,000 free to enter. Sky Super 6

    Hi all, I have set up a Sky Super 6 league for the forum. Its free to enter, and you can win £250000 every week. https://super6.skysports.com/league/SJ4ZX6 Cheers..............Howard
  17. L

    sky over cat6 cable question/advice needed

    Hi all, Advice needed on this one, 6 bed house , tv position in each room - each tv location wired with 1xct100 coax , 2x cat6 , 1 x cat5e all cables wired back to central hub location Coax already used for aerial to each tv Cat5e already used for Internet to each tv Sky...
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  18. D

    first fix for 2x sky boxes

    Hi all , i am doing a first fix for a house at the moment and was just wondering if im correct in thinking that if there were to be 2 x sky boxes i would need to run a shotgun cable from each box to the dish position and a coax cable from same position to a booster.? thanks in advance Dan
  19. W

    Balun cat 5e connections and sky HD problem

    Hi all I have repositioned my main tv remotely from my sky hd box and have run two pairs of cat5e and balun connectors to connect xbox360 and sky hd box to main tv have tested all rj45 connections with a lan tester and all is fine have all sound and picture on x box fine on both sets of...
  20. C

    Suspected interference on sky box rf2 channel 68 output to second tv

    "Hello All", I have a problem with bad interference on the reception of my Home`s TV`s that are connected to Sky Digiboxes in other rooms via satellite quality co-ax cables [Sky Box RF2 output] - this has just started yesterday and the Sky TV is un-watchable on these TV sets. The affected TV`s...
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