Sky cables into freesat box?

tvsurfer

This is my first post. I have a Sky satellite dish left in situ by previous tenants with all the wiring intact and two wires indoors. I've read that I could connect the Sky dish to a freesat box. I have a freesat Manhattan box. The Sky set up has two cables. The Manhattan box has only one port for a cable. First up I don't know if it's even allowed to use the Sky cabling for this purpose. Secondly, will it work at all and will it work if I just use one of the Sky cables given there's only one port in the freesat box and does it matter which cable?! I've no idea what I'm doing really but any help would be most appreciated! Seems a shame to waste the dish and the cabling!

TadleyBaggie

Sky dish/cables work just fine for Freesat. Doesn't matter which of the two cables you use.

Inner_Zone

Unless it was a Sky Q twin LNB installation. Only one way to find out.

agrinnall

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Unless it was a Sky Q twin LNB installation. Only one way to find out.

Well, the OP could also get Sky out to tell them, or possibly even an independent satellite installer, but your method is the quickest and by far the cheapest.

lammy82

As others have said, try either cable. There is no legal problem with this. Sky do not own the dish or cabling. A twin-tuner device would need both and would allow you to record one channel whilst watching another.