how to get sky or freesat in another room

spike7451

mrs_baggins wrote: »

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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)

FYI,That bottom cover slides up to allow you to connect the cable,dont forget to pull it down again.

mrs_baggins

thanks so much. someone gave me a sky box so I shall now order all the bits andhopefully it will work!

ckerrd

Not sure how much cable you will need but for less than a fiver you can get 10m with connectors already on.

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/7871153/Televes-10m-Satellite-Cable-With-Connectors/Product.html?ptsl=1&ob=Price&fb=0&&_$ja=tsid:11518|cc:|prd:7871153|cat:Accessories

mrs_baggins

f connector attached-thats even easier!

One last question please

For an ordinary (non sky plus) box do i need one or 2 connectors. After reading I am thinking one?

ckerrd

Just the one input on an ordinary sky box

DonnyDave

Just out of interest, am I right in saying that the rule for satellite TV is one tuner per LNB?

With terrestrial, you can have a single aerial which feeds a video recorder and then out to the TV. I have a digital receiver with HDD connected in as well.

ckerrd

DonnyDave wrote: »

Just out of interest, am I right in saying that the rule for satellite TV is one tuner per LNB?

With terrestrial, you can have a single aerial which feeds a video recorder and then out to the TV. I have a digital receiver with HDD connected in as well.

It is one tuner per output from the LNB, be it single quad or more.

DonnyDave

ckerrd wrote: »

It is one tuner per output from the LNB, be it single quad or more.

Thanks for the clarification on this.

What you said is what I was thinking, it's just I thought of a quad-LNB as being four LNBs.

ckerrd

You can of course get dual-LNBs to pick up signals from more than one satellite.

Like this http://www.aerialshack.com/ak51m12bl-monoblock-astra-hotbird-1319-degrees-p-380.html?osCsid=28c0uo2had2v98ll442hcp9ka2

Pokerlad

DonnyDave wrote: »

Thanks for the clarification on this.

What you said is what I was thinking, it's just I thought of a quad-LNB as being four LNBs.

And you would be right because it has 4 outputs that can work independently of each other.

What you cant do is split a signal like you can with an arial. Each feed from the LNB can only tune to one channel at a time.