Mystery Sky Cable? (Image)

Kamran

Dear all, hope you're well!

I am looking to get Sky+ in a new apartment (approx 8 years newly built) and whilst there's one satellite cable socket in the wall (communal sky dish), I was wondering how Sky+ would work (given that it needs 2 LNB cables).

So I unscrewed the faceplate next to the existing sky cable and found the following:



Any idea what this mystery cable is?

Thanks! :T

Kamran

I don't know why the pic is upside down.. here's the original
https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/pEilB2W426Dnx730l4OMeTh03pZB4nCk/IMG_2963.JPG

googler

What's behind the other?

If it's a communal dish, you may need to have your installer look at the setup of the dish and the associated distribution gear, wherever that might be.

phoenix_w

That cable may just be the external feed which is wired into the faceplate.

As for sky+, talk to your neighbours or wait for the installer to turn up. In the worst case you may have to use sky+ in single LNB mode (i.e. not be able to record something else whilst watching something) or if the switching gear is there they may be able to split the feed so it all works properly. No-one can tell without looking at the install.

MisterBaxter

A lot of the earlier communal distribution systems that were being fitted as part of the DTV upgrade process was being done only had a single LNB so no proper Sky+. If it was only done 8 years ago then installers were đefinitely installing systems that were Sky+ capable.

Our Sky+ cable was actually a double cable (two cables bonded to each other) rather than a single cable and if I recall it had two connectors for the tuners. If there is only a single cable and single connector point I'm not sure that full Sky+ will work.

prowla

It looks to me like there might have been a trailing cable installed and it was converted to a socket by using a socket wired with a short length joined via an in-line connector.

Owain_Moneysaver

do you have another socket in a bedroom or elsewhere? That might be a second sat feed which has been extended to another room.

Simple thing is to unscrew that coupler and try your existing sat box on each plug and see if you get a signal.

hardy1976

I would have thought those cables would have been connected to the face plate?