Sky TV - Cable, advice please

[robo83]

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 [FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Twinned coax cable, allowing Sky +. [/FONT]

[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Am i correct saying each cable must run to the dish, or can i run all 4 coax into a splitter?
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[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I'm allowing[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Power[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Cat 5[/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Twinned Coax [/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Phone (i believe the phone connection is needed to allow purchases) [/FONT]

Any advice with regards to the amount of individual sky boxes running from 1 dish. Whats common for the amount of LNB connections on each disk?

 

[smurfyy2k3]

Each shotgun cable (twin coax) must go back to the dish. You'll have to make sure said dish has an octo lnb on it the phone cable is no longer required as sky do all that over a broadband connection now however it cant hurt to still run a phone line!

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[robo83]

Thanks smurfy

Researching the OCTO LNB now..

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[Swcfisher]

Are these old sky+ or Sky HD+ boxes or new sky q boxes?

 

[edrobbo8]

The new sky q boxes work off bluetooth i think so you have one main box that then connects via blue tooth to the other boxes.

But if you are first fixing it is probably worth running a shotgun to each room, and either back to a central point and installing a multi switch, or all rooms back to the dish (max 4 shotguns)

 

[robo83]

I'll run shotguns to each room back to dish.





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[robo83]

The new sky q boxes work off bluetooth i think so you have one main box that then connects via blue tooth to the other boxes.

But if you are first fixing it is probably worth running a shotgun to each room, and either back to a central point and installing a multi switch, or all rooms back to the dish (max 4 shotguns)

Hi,

I've looked at the multi switch option.

Am I correct in saying, I would install a Quad LNB on the sky dish, then run a cable (would this be 2 Shotgun cables?) back to the multi switch. Then run a Shotgun from each TV back to the multi switch?


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[smurfyy2k3]

Nope, first you would install a quatro lnb(splits the signal into four parts), which generally dont fit on a traditional eliptical sky dish, you'll be better off running to rg6 (coax) cables rather than shotgun then you would have to install diplex so ckets at all the points. Honestly. If your not familiar with the systems your better off getting an aerial man in instead. Mutliswitch systems can be a pain in the backside the first time!

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[robo83]

OK thanks, I accept the advice and appreciate it.

I will run back to the dish this time, once I get time ill look into it more.

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