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    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
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    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...
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    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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    Sky+ in a flat

    Looking to get Sky +. I live in a small block of 4 flats and have access to the communal loft. The flats are around 30 years old and seem to only have one cable running from the loft to a single duplexer(?) plate in the living room providing freesat or freeview. Looking to throw in a shotgun...
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    New product ? - intelligent ir distribution system for multiple sky hd receivers

    "Hello All", As I am definitely NOT any kind of expert in Sky TV / IR Remote Control signal distribution products this may not be the `new innovation` product that it seems to Me - but just in case it would be helpful for other Members who work on TV / Sky distribution systems I thought that I...
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    fs5 sky box

    There is a guy local to me selling these fs5'sky' boxes for £120 via facebook, claiming you get the box and a 12 month subscription to all the sky channels (sport, pay per view, 3pm football, everything) After a bit of research I believe they do work, you do get what they claim, and having...
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    Sky multiscreen

    Can anyone tell me if you need an cable from the aerial as well as the two from the sky dish if you are having sky multi-screen at various points around the home?
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    SKY Customer Services

    I've been signed up with SKY for the past 11 months, I get my phone line, TV & broadband through them. When I took out the package they promised me the world and were very helpful but after about a month my broadband speeds slowed down to less than 1 Mbps. I emailed them and they said it's...
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    PIR & sky dish

    Is a sky dish with in a few meters of a PIR likely to interfere with PIR sensor or functionality?
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    Sky fibre optic

    Hello all. I have got virgin media vibe optic but thinking to change all my utility to sky because my phone and tv are with them. I was wondering how would sky fibre optic work. Like where will cables be run from and what cables and if it's hd what they would use. At the moment I have virgin...
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    Sky Multi-room call back issues. Anyone had similar experiences?

    Thank you for reading.......... Once again, I have received an email from Sky who are threatening to increase our multi-room subscriptions. We are in 'violation' of our contract because they've been unable to perform automatic call backs to/from each of our sky boxes. This issue rears its...
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    good DTV picture but bad SKY picture from same HD sky Decoder

    another sky/tv related question , i wish i knew more about this subject!! ) the house i am working in has a strong dtv aerial feed and sky plus supply into the back of a HD sky decoder in the living room. the living room tv is fed via hd cable from that point. the rf out of the SKY HD box...
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    new sky installation

    Good evening, I have recently completed a new built 4 bedroom house,now time for 2nd fix, the client wants sky hd in the lounge and the master bedroom, with the other 3 bedrooms and the kitchen to have freeview and the same channel as sky in the lounge. I have run 3 coax's too the lounge and...
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    Sky Cable

    I am working on an extension and client has asked for an additional 2 sky outlets to be installed. At present, there is one outlet in the existing part of the house I was wondering if I can take a supply from the existing point to the first new point and then onto the second new point? Or do I...
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    Sky Dish the only Aerial

    Hi Guys Just moved into a new house and got a few questions about what looks like my Sky dish being the only aerial in the house. Can't find any Coax output around the house just LNB outputs. The dish has a quad LNB connector and runs from the dish to a splitter which than goes to three...
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    sky movies premiere

    holy crap, can this channel sink any lower? i've just tuned in to see what the big prime time blockbuster movie is and, lo and behold, it's a bleedin french film with subtitles. this channel's getting worse, it constantly fobs us off with films that no one's ever heard of. even channel 5 are...
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    Sky digibox rf2 output - power to magic eye option to be turned off by sky firmware ?

    "Hello All", I wondered if anyone else has heard the RUMOUR that Sky are going to broadcast a Firmware Update around September which will have the `accidental effect` of removing the Set Up Option within the Engineers Set Up Menu to turn Power ON to the Digi-box RF2 Output / Remote Control...
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    Sky box losing signal.

    I have recently extended to sky cables for a customer to a new position for their sky HD+ box. It all worked fine at first but now the box keep losing signal. Have re-terminated cables but still same problem. Original cables had no problems. Has anyone experienced this before? Any quick fix?
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    sky+ multi room Help please

    Greetings Pricing up a new build that needs 7 sky+ feeds through out. now I normally don't get these jobs. obviously I will be using satellite quality ct100 and keeping clear of mains cable. but my question is how are these systems wired. I know sky +needs 2 coax's but do these: 1 go...
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    Is it possible to copy from Sky hd box hdd to my computer hdd

    Hi I am just wondering if someone can plz help i have just been informed from sky that i need a new hd box as mine is faulty but also been informed that i will lose all the stuff on it which some of the stuff is daft progs that i cant get coz not repeated so was just wondering if there is...

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