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Old 14-02-2014, 09:57
Shawfield
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Hi

Just moved into a new flat. Its got all kinds of special wiring installed in a switch room in the hallway. the company who installed it all wants £750 to connect my Sky TV to the TV in the living room !

The BT Openreach phone master socket is there.
The apartment blocks communal Sky TV inputs ( the two screw-fitted sockets that connect to the back of the sky box ) are there. As is the normal incoming Aerial co-ax connection

My question ; How would I get my sky box to connect to my TV in the living room 20metres away ?

Can I use a 'Now TV' box to do a wireles connection ?

Can the existing co-ax by the TV be connected up to the incoming Sky connection ?

Can I use the CAT5 wiring thats already in place in every room ?

Thoughts welcome

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Old 14-02-2014, 10:03
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A pair of 20m coax leads to extend the satellite outputs in the "switch room" to the living room would be the easiest solution. Then put the Sky box under the telly.
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Old 14-02-2014, 11:44
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Yeah sky box in living room would be best.

Or you will need to also run a HDMI cable alongside the Sky cables.

One CAT 5 wire and baluns is not enough.

Cheapest option is to go to go here and buy RG66 or WF100 cable with the ends on it

http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/cable.htm

Then got to Amazon , buy a CAT 6 cable to go from CAT 5 wall plate to back of tv , then connect that into a switch in any port.

Then just buy patch 2 or 3 metre CAT 6 cables to sky box, blu ray, tv etc

http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Metre-...cat+6+10+metre 10 metre to back of tv

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shielded-Net...=cat+6+3+metre 3 metre patch

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-GS10...netgear+switch

if you want sky in other rooms then run RF cable from RF 2 to other rooms and use a magic eye to change channels
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Old 14-02-2014, 11:54
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someone built a flat with the tv and satellite point in the hall?
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Old 14-02-2014, 12:45
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It may be that the satellite points are dead and part of the £750 is to connect them to the multiswitch in the heaend.
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Old 14-02-2014, 13:25
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Thanks all - not sure I completely follow

Just to clarify.

The house is wired with incoming broadband/phone/satellite/tv sockets in a main switch room in the hall way 25m or so from where I want the TV in living room & 10m away from bedroom.

There is CAT5 wiring in every room & a switchbox in the switchroom that allows devices to be patched to any numbered cat5 socket.

There is co-ax in every room, which connects back to the aerial input in the switchroom

It sounds like its easiest to use the co-ax connection, but I am not sure how this would work.

maybe its like this...

1) Satellite input in the switch room from the communal dish ( two screw type connections ) connects to what ? The single co-ax point from the external shared aerial in the switch room ? Does this need an adapter of some kind as there is only a single co-ax connector ?

2) Sky boxes connect to co-ax in living room & bedroom( single co-ax connection like a standard aerial ? or some kind of adapater to enable the two screw type fittings ?

3) HDMI lead to the TV's from sky box.

or is it something else ?

thanks
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Old 14-02-2014, 13:33
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Thanks all - not sure I completely follow

Just to clarify.

The house is wired with incoming broadband/phone/satellite/tv sockets in a main switch room in the hall way 25m or so from where I want the TV in living room & 10m away from bedroom.

There is CAT5 wiring in every room & a switchbox in the switchroom that allows devices to be patched to any numbered cat5 socket.

There is co-ax in every room, which connects back to the aerial input in the switchroom

It sounds like its easiest to use the co-ax connection, but I am not sure how this would work.

maybe its like this...

1) Satellite input in the switch room from the communal dish ( two screw type connections ) connects to what ? The single co-ax point from the external shared aerial in the switch room ? Does this need an adapter of some kind as there is only a single co-ax connector ?

2) Sky boxes connect to co-ax in living room & bedroom( single co-ax connection like a standard aerial ? or some kind of adapater to enable the two screw type fittings ?

3) HDMI lead to the TV's from sky box.

or is it something else ?

thanks
Depending on the cable used for the TV points you might (and I stress MIGHT) get away with using it for satellite. However if it lands on standard Belling Lee type TV coax connectors (push in types, like on the back of a telly) they may need changing to F-Types, (the screw type connectors).

That would give you a single feed in each room which would be OK for watching Sky but seriously restrict what you can do with recording at the same time. That really needs two connections to the dish to give you total flexibility in what you can watch and record.

You would be better off running a couple of cables into the living room from the satellite points to the Sky box if you want full Sky+ functionality and ease of connection from Sky box to telly.
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Old 14-02-2014, 14:43
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Depending on the cable used for the TV points you might (and I stress MIGHT) get away with using it for satellite. However if it lands on standard Belling Lee type TV coax connectors (push in types, like on the back of a telly) they may need changing to F-Types, (the screw type connectors).
It would be unusual to find TV coax that's too poor for satellite, and as it's presumably a fairly new install (hence the CAT5) it's likely to have been wired in satellite grade coax anyway.

No need to change the Belling Lee sockets on the wall, just make (or buy) BL to F fly leads - Belling Lee plugs work perfectly well for satellite, and a number of receivers used to use them in preference to F types.

Biggest problem would be only a single feed.
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Old 14-02-2014, 14:52
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Thanks Nigel
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