2 questions about Sky........(4 techie MYOB types)

[dwayne]

1) If you have a two storey house, and your bedroom is on the top floor, facing the other side of the house to the dish, is there anyway to have a box in your room without having the cabling come from all the way downstairs?

2) If you have Sky hooked up in your room so it is coming through your ariel socket and you can recieve what is being transmitted on the downstairs box can you plug a box into that ariel socket and recieve the signal needed that way?

stupid questions sorry, but any help appreciated

 

[clapham_gull]

No, box has to be in some way directly connected to the dish.

You can easily buy a "video sender", basically a wireless video transmitter and receiver.

Basically you leave the box downstairs, and connect the video sender to the sky box.

You place the video receiver in your bedroom and connect it to the telly.

The better senders have a "backwards" path - basically lets you use your sky remote in the bedroom.

The video receiver sends the remote information back to the transmitter, which then changes the channel on the box.

( A small cable plugs into the back of the sender, which has a small unit on the bottom which you stick to the front of the sky box. This basically re-routes the signal coming out of the remote. )


However - these video senders sometimes don't work..

I've got one, and it doesn't like my walls !

 

[cardboard]

Chez knows about sky stuff

 

[clapham_gull]

.. or get Sky Multiroom for an extra tenner, and they'll route a cable for it at a price.

 

[B.M.F]

Chez knows about sky stuff

He used to install sky so agree that he should be able to help.

 

[Cian]

1: You can throw a cable over the roof of the house to avoid it having to come down and back up inside - I've got this done. But you really want to have something padding it against the ridge tiles on the roof or it'll eventually get ripped open and have water go in, run down and blow up your box (being serious here) if you do that.

2: If the cables in the wall were in really, really good condition and theres no bad video noise, you can use a diplexer to send the signal up from downstairs on the cable and a new wall plate in the bedroom to de-diplex them. Just remember that you need one feed from the dish for each box (two for Sky+ or SkyHD) and you can't split these to two boxes.