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help. issue with sky plus wiring
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hi,
just moved into a new place and decided to be clever and run all wiring that i could ever need under the floors before they were laid. My problem is that, i didnt know sky plus required 2 cables (i know i should have checked)
What i have now is a sky dish with 2 cables running into my bedroom (which is where the distributer is) from there the satallite cables are run into the other rooms.
My original plan was to have the sky plus box in the living room, which will be picking up the feed from the cable i've run, but as mentioned above i only run one cable.
What i was wondering is, can i take the 2 cables which come from the LNB then have both signals go down one cable, then at the other end (in the living room) split them back out to 2 cables, thus allowing my sky plus to work ? is this even possible, with some sort of 2 input 1 output device ?
or are there any other options that i havent looked at ? the last thing i want to do is run another cable across the house. Ive heard about a stacker /destacker but that seems a little expensive.
Alternatively, at the moment im running my sky plus box from the bedroom, and using one of those magic eye things in the living room, but its not exactly scart quality running it through the RF, so is there anything that will make my reception a lot clearer if there is no easy solution to the above?
apologies if this does'nt make sense, im new to all this, and slowly understanding how all this actually works.
Thanks in advance.
taz
just moved into a new place and decided to be clever and run all wiring that i could ever need under the floors before they were laid. My problem is that, i didnt know sky plus required 2 cables (i know i should have checked)
What i have now is a sky dish with 2 cables running into my bedroom (which is where the distributer is) from there the satallite cables are run into the other rooms.
My original plan was to have the sky plus box in the living room, which will be picking up the feed from the cable i've run, but as mentioned above i only run one cable.
What i was wondering is, can i take the 2 cables which come from the LNB then have both signals go down one cable, then at the other end (in the living room) split them back out to 2 cables, thus allowing my sky plus to work ? is this even possible, with some sort of 2 input 1 output device ?
or are there any other options that i havent looked at ? the last thing i want to do is run another cable across the house. Ive heard about a stacker /destacker but that seems a little expensive.
Alternatively, at the moment im running my sky plus box from the bedroom, and using one of those magic eye things in the living room, but its not exactly scart quality running it through the RF, so is there anything that will make my reception a lot clearer if there is no easy solution to the above?
apologies if this does'nt make sense, im new to all this, and slowly understanding how all this actually works.
Thanks in advance.
taz
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As you say using a magic eye will only give mono audio and rf picture quality, A stacker is more expensive than a length of cable and a couple of f connectors!
Regards
Darren
Stacker de-stacker would be your best option but as you say it aint the cheapest.
Other than the magic eye approach have you looked into wireless video senders?
Doesnt really matter if they can control the remote as you could put a magic eye in for that aspect.
birddog, yes it is coax all through the house, i looked into wireless video senders but i wasn't sure about the quality of what they will be like. have you had experience with these ?
im kicking myself now, should have spent 10 minutes researching the sky plus box and ill have wirefree house now, lol. ah well.
Regards
Darren
As long as you don't have wireless broadband?, WiFi wipes it out as well!.
If so you might be able to multiplex the second Satellie signal onto the TV terestrial cable and so get two cables to your lounge.
These are quite simple passive conectors at each end.
The reputation of the stacker / de stacker solution is that it is complicated and has a tendency to go wrong (though one supplier I spoke to blamed the users) but others told me to keep away unless there is no other solution.
Hope that helps.
What sort of cable run do you have from your dish to your box? i.e. right angles etc..
Have you thought of using a draw cord? attached a thin strong cord to your exisiting coax at one end, and pull that through the cable run using your current coax?
then attach the 2 coax.. i belive if you hunt around you can get some proper thinn coax and then use the draw cord to pull it through
Good thinking! Could possibly pull through a length of 'shotgun' cable using the original.