how to get sky or freesat in another room

mrs_baggins

i posted on a diff part but this may be better!

I have a sky dish plus skyplus which I pay for. My sons room which is right under the sky dish is watching tv/games with portable ariel. His tv has built in freeview. What is cheapest/best way to get a decent pic in his tv either freesat or freeview etc. I have tried bouncing the signalfrom my sky box to his tv but it doesnt work well.

I undertsand I can run an LNB? cable from sky to his room but am unsure of detiail

spike7451

The LNB is the box thing on the arm of the dish,You could buy a Sky box from a car boot sale/ebay & run a cable from the LNB on the dish to the bought Sky box,with this you'll get about 30 channels but unless you buy a freesat/ftv card off Sky (£20) you wont get Five US/Fiver or,in some regions,Five.
BTW, Freeview wont work off the Sky.

cyberbob

If you went freesat you would have to buy a freesat box. Depending on the LNB this may have to be upgraded before you can run ago cable. It may be worth depending where your terrestrial aerial considering a distribution box and a feed from there as that would be cheaper than a freesat box and upgrading your dish.

Your other option is to multiroom with sky which will be a one off payment (which differs depending on offers) and £10 a month

spike7451

Just looked on ebay & the cheapest (and !!!!iest type) is £9,the newest is £25.I got one from a boot sale for £7 complete!

spike7451

cyberbob wrote: »

If you went freesat you would have to buy a freesat box. Depending on the LNB this may have to be upgraded before you can run ago cable. It may be worth depending where your terrestrial aerial considering a distribution box and a feed from there as that would be cheaper than a freesat box and upgrading your dish.

Your other option is to multiroom with sky which will be a one off payment (which differs depending on offers) and £10 a month

The OP's got Sky+ already so has 2 free tap ports.

mrs_baggins

I dont want to pay any more for sky so multiroom is out. I have a terrestial aerial but its not brilliant plus the sky dish is above sons room which is on the ground floor so it would be really easy to route a cable from here rather up in the loft.

So let me see if I have this right. I have a sky dish plus sky plus and a basic sky subscription. Do not know at this point if I have any spare LNB ports so will look when I get home. If I havent do I need to get a 4 port one? where do I get these from? Maplins or is there somewhere cheaper?

Once I have 2 spare ports I can then run cable to sons room? and this can plug into a freesat box which I havent got yet. Does it just plug in . Am guessing I need special ends to plug the two together?

I dont think he is bothered about getting certain channels as long as the ones he can get are not all ghosting like there are now

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You will have spare LNB ports. Part of a Sky+ install is to put on a quad LNB.

You can either use an old Sky box or a Freesat box, whichever you can find cheaper.

You'll need a couple of 'F' connectors for either end of the cable.

spike7451

mrs_baggins wrote: »

I dont want to pay any more for sky so multiroom is out. I have a terrestial aerial but its not brilliant plus the sky dish is above sons room which is on the ground floor so it would be really easy to route a cable from here rather up in the loft.

So let me see if I have this right. I have a sky dish plus sky plus and a basic sky subscription. Do not know at this point if I have any spare LNB ports so will look when I get home. If I havent do I need to get a 4 port one? where do I get these from? Maplins or is there somewhere cheaper?

Once I have 2 spare ports I can then run cable to sons room? and this can plug into a freesat box which I havent got yet. Does it just plug in . Am guessing I need special ends to plug the two together?

I dont think he is bothered about getting certain channels as long as the ones he can get are not all ghosting like there are now

You can get then cable & fittings here:
http://mediacables.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_10&products_id=236
Connector:
http://mediacables.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=346
How to:
http://mediacables.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=8&chapter=0

mrs_baggins

thats great! thanks!!!

mrs_baggins

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Hi all, its taken me this long to get ladders out so I ca get a close up photo of the existing LNB so I can ask you all if I am going to order the correct item.



(hope my photo link works)

ckerrd

That is a quad LNB so all you need is the cable (with the correct connector) and a Sky box and away you go.