Satellite signal wireless?

maas

Is there any way to get a satellite signal from 1 part of the house to another without running a coax cable around the house.

I have my dish (twin LNB) in the garden and coax cable running into the lounge TV. So if I want to add satellite TV in the bedroom (freesat) is there a way to do that without running a coax cable all around the house.

bod1467

Are you talking about connecting the 2nd LNB, so the bedroom can select their own channels? If yes then having another Freesat box connected to something like this may work. (Other makes/models of video senders are available).

maas

Its not exactly what I want but I might be able to make do with.

Would I be able to change the channel over at the 2nd location by pointing the remote at the receiver unit?

How do these work exactly? Is it HDMI cable that plugs into the satellite box and then into the transmitter unit on this device which then the receiving unit of the device receives?? And then you plug that (via HDMI) into the 2nd TV?

I really have no idea how these work.

maas

bod1467 wrote: »

Are you talking about connecting the 2nd LNB, so the bedroom can select their own channels?

Thats exactly what I want. I have 2 satellite cables from the dish coming into the lounge downstairs (1 in use for the sat box downstairs).

I want to somehow get the 2nd cable upstairs without extending the cable all around the house! But these video senders might be a compromise but there wouldnt be any need for a 2nd sat box as they only send audio/video of the first box (not the actual satellite signal)?

bod1467

If you have ONE satellite box then you can only watch one channel in both locations. (Although you can control the channel selection from either location - if the blurb for that unit is correct).

If you connect a second satellite box to the second LNB then you should be able to control the bedroom channel separately from living room.

maas

bod1467 wrote: »

If you have ONE satellite box then you can only watch one channel in both locations. (Although you can control the channel selection from either location - if the blurb for that unit is correct).

If you connect a second satellite box to the second LNB then you should be able to control the bedroom channel separately from living room.

I'm with you now! I could buy a 2nd box and place that next to the first box in the lounge and then with a sender, I can have 2 different channels for upstairs/downstairs simultaneously without any upstairs cables!

I'm just gonna stick with 1 box and get a video sender. It seems to do what I need (although I'll probably need to get another remote control evetually).

Do you have any recommendations for just a basic 5.8ghz sender as they all have mixed reviews. That Nikkai you posted seems to be at a bargain price at £29.99.

The Qose seems to have slightly better reviews but I'm not sure its worth the extra £20.

Chrishazle

I bought what was then a top of the range video sender about 6 years ago, for similar reasons. It was never a great success, and I ended up binning it, over £100 wasted. I'm now gathering dish, LNB, cable etc to hard wire dining room and bedroom and run second cable into living room. You can buy a second hand Sky+ HD box from Ebay for very little, you can't record but you can receive the FTA channels (may need a Sky FTA card, or buy a receiver that includes a card!).

maas

Chrishazle wrote: »

I bought what was then a top of the range video sender about 6 years ago, for similar reasons. It was never a great success, and I ended up binning it, over £100 wasted. I'm now gathering dish, LNB, cable etc to hard wire dining room and bedroom and run second cable into living room. You can buy a second hand Sky+ HD box from Ebay for very little, you can't record but you can receive the FTA channels (may need a Sky FTA card, or buy a receiver that includes a card!).

Thanks for that.

I've just ordered the cheap £30 one. If it doesnt work (or doesnt work satisfactorily) I'll just send it straight back.

I think the 2nd hard wire satellite cable into the bedroom and a 2nd receiver would be the ideal scenario, I may just end up doing that.

Chrishazle

So far I've spent £28 on new 80cm dish and quad LNB (although I'm down south, I'm trying the bigger dish to see if that will give me freesat as well as Sky, the 60cm does not quite do it), £25 for a Sky+ HD box with card, £8 for a satellite finder, couple of quid for face plate and F connectors, and got lucky with cable (about 80m for £3!!), just got to fit it all now! Tried a local fitter, her wanted £70 per additional cable run so £280 for just the cabling without the dish and LNB!

Inner_Zone

Chrishazle wrote: »

So far I've spent £28 on new 80cm dish and quad LNB (although I'm down south, I'm trying the bigger dish to see if that will give me freesat as well as Sky, the 60cm does not quite do it), £25 for a Sky+ HD box with card, £8 for a satellite finder, couple of quid for face plate and F connectors, and got lucky with cable (about 80m for £3!!), just got to fit it all now! Tried a local fitter, her wanted £70 per additional cable run so £280 for just the cabling without the dish and LNB!

Their both the same signals spart from the default EPG signal. A 44cm Sky dish will work fine down south for both so if a 60cm dish is not then you have other issues. Unless you also want other satellites (with a suitable receiver) and multiple LNB's a 80cm dish is over kill for Sky or Freesat even allowing for rain fade.

maas

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Their both the same signals spart from the default EPG signal. A 44cm Sky dish will work fine down south for both so if a 60cm dish is not then you have other issues. Unless you also want other satellites (with a suitable receiver) and multiple LNB's a 80cm dish is over kill for Sky or Freesat even allowing for rain fade.

Yea as inner zone says the mini dish should give the same quality signals to both the Sky boxes you have (regardless of subscription type (Freesat or Sky))

I would check the cable you bought, it must be a very poor quality one with a large signal loss if only the first Sky+ box works with the same dish. I know there's varying quality of coax cable you can buy, I myself bought a very cheap one off ebay (for an older house) which I later upgraded and signal strength of the channels vastly improved.

Plug the new Sky+ box you bought into the same cable as the existing Sky+ box. If thats still not working then the tuner on the new box must be knackered.