advise on sky installation please????

[tanna]

Hi all was wondering if anybody could help who has knowledge with sky installation , currently doing a rewire and am pulling in the sky points so the cable is hidden, in total there is going to be 8 tvs and they want sky for each one of them, pulling in twin satalite cable for sky plus but do they all go back to the dish or do they have to go back to a splitter box some where????

 

[RyanCheetham]

Depends if they are having seperate decoders in each room or whether they want to send the signal from one box to multiple rooms

 

[tanna]

Thanks Ryan , to be honest I have no knowledge on sky what so ever , they want to be able to watch seperate channels in each room , I was thinking that they all must have to run back to some kind of splitter or is that wrong??

 

[Dohnut]

If they want to separate sky boxes for each TV you need a twin satellite cable from each TV to the dish but as you pay extra for each box on multi room I hope they have plenty of money.

 

[proigrac]

that is a problem, it can make a problem, thank you

 

[Dohnut]

Its also worth running a Ariel cable to each TV in case they want Freeview on some of them. I've ran the a cable from the bedrooms in my house to behind the TV in the lounge and came off the R2 connection on the Sky box to a SLX booster to supply both so that I can use the Sky eyes to turn the TV over from other rooms (be aware this isn't HD though) . This also supplies them with the signal for the freeview as my Sky box has a Ariel to it.

 

[RyanCheetham]

Run back to a splitter if they are going to share a signal. If they want seperate decoders then run the cables to where the dish will be

 

[skyesparky]

Max 8 outputs from sky dish so if they want sky/freesat in each room and prob sky+ in living room you will need to use a 5 x 16 multiswitch. Fit a quattro lnb on dish and run 4 feeds to attic ( sat signal has 4 "bands" verticle high/low and horizontal high/low). Run twin feeds from each tv back to multiswitch and re route aerial feed to switch also. At this point id get a aerial installer in to connect switch and diplex tv points. Using this method means each tv point would have option of freeview and or sat feed, or 2 sat feeds.

Hope that makes sense. If you need any advice pm me.

Steve

 

[skyesparky]

just to add, if they want to view main tv picture in other rooms, run 3 feeds from main tv to switch. The rf2 and aerial feed can be combined then connected into the multiswitch.