splitting signal to 2 rooms

[electrocuted]

hello boys and girls

A friend has a free to air dish and a sky dish feeding a sky+ hd feeding the lounge and he wants both feeds taken to another room. Is it simply a matter of splitting the feed in the loft and then a cable to each from each feed ,or is there more to it.

ON another matter his sky +hd is fed by single cable from sky dish and is working ok.

all help appreciated.

 

[Lurch]

hello boys and girls A friend has a free to air dish and a sky dish feeding a sky+ hd feeding the lounge and he wants both feeds taken to another room. Is it simply a matter of splitting the feed in the loft and then a cable to each from each feed ,or is there more to it.

Not completely sure I follow. You have 2 dishes, and 1 feed from each to the existing location of 2 boxes. You want to move these 2 boxes to another location? If so, as you say, just divert the feeds at some point along the length. I would try and avoid joins if possible, run new cables to the dishes ideally. Also use decent CT\PF100 or better.

ON another matter his sky +hd is fed by single cable from sky dish and is working ok.

Yes, a Sky+ box will work fine with a single feed. The second feed is so you can record 1 channel and watch another. He'll be unable to do this with just a single feed.

 

[bengie]

sky+ be it HD or normal really needs two cables, it does work on one cable but you lose the ability to record one chanel and watch another, another issue can be that unless you have the latest epg and have the box set to single cable mode it may miss recordings as it tries to record it on a signal that isn't there.

you can't split a sky signal, each box has to have its own feed, its just the way it works sadly.

to run another box you'll have to run seperate cables to the other location and then have the box and subscriptions, alternatively if he is only going to use one location at a time you could one of those signal sender things. you can the senders in both wired and wireless versions, my parents use a wired one as their flat has an aerial from teh living room to the bedroom which they connect to the output of the skybox and the signal thingy on the bedroom end, it has an IR reciever inline with it that if you turn the feature on in the living room sky box then you can control the sky from the bedroom.

 

[electrocuted]

Not completely sure I follow. You have 2 dishes, and 1 feed from each to the existing location of 2 boxes. You want to move these 2 boxes to another location?If so, as you say, just divert the feeds at some point along the length. I would try and avoid joins if possible, run new cables to the dishes ideally. Also use decent CT\PF100 or better.

Yes, a Sky+ box will work fine with a single feed. The second feed is so you can record 1 channel and watch another. He'll be unable to do this with just a single feed.

Sorry lurch what i meant to say is that he wants to feed both rooms

 

[bengie]

damn my slow typing!

 

[Lurch]

Sorry lurch what i meant to say is that he wants to feed both rooms

No then, doesn;t work like TV signals.

What you need is to change the LNB's for ones with multiple outputs and run new cables back to the dishes for the additional boxes.

 

[electrocuted]

sky+ be it HD or normal really needs two cables, it does work on one cable but you lose the ability to record one chanel and watch another, another issue can be that unless you have the latest epg and have the box set to single cable mode it may miss recordings as it tries to record it on a signal that isn't there.you can't split a sky signal, each box has to have its own feed, its just the way it works sadly.

to run another box you'll have to run seperate cables to the other location and then have the box and subscriptions, alternatively if he is only going to use one location at a time you could one of those signal sender things. you can the senders in both wired and wireless versions, my parents use a wired one as their flat has an aerial from teh living room to the bedroom which they connect to the output of the skybox and the signal thingy on the bedroom end, it has an IR reciever inline with it that if you turn the feature on in the living room sky box then you can control the sky from the bedroom.

hi Bengie

there are 2 separate from 2 dishes to two receivers but he has 2 more receivers in another room he wants to feed.

 

[bengie]

right, then more cables are needed and as already said you need to make sure the LNB's have enough spare ways to accomodate them

in my previous house i ran all the sky/telephones cables myself prior to sky turning up and when i asked if i could add sky+ myself to another room the sky engineer fitted me an 8-way LNB so i had spare ways as a thankyou for doing all the internal wiring for him.