How to use second sky digibox

aj71_3

Hello everybody,
It is nice to see forum is back.

I have skyplus box atttached to my main tv downstairs. I have also had a spare sky digibox (not plus) and recently bought a tv for upstairs bed room.

I do not want to use sky multiroom. Is there any way I can use the spare sky digibox to watch free channels upstairs on my bed room tv please?

Could you please tell me what to buy for this and from where? And how I can use it?

Many thanks in advance.

AJ71

Zagu

Two ways I can think of.

If your LNB (thing on the dish that the wires plug into) has 4 connections, you could run a connection to your bedroom where you would have you standard Sky box, and get a Freesat card from Sky.

You could get a TV sender unit. I have a Gigabyte, and can change channel from upstairs, although you have to watch the same channel as downstairs. You wouldnt need to use your Sky box at all for this.

aj71_3

Zagu wrote: »

Two ways I can think of.

If your LNB (thing on the dish that the wires plug into) has 4 connections, you could run a connection to your bedroom where you would have you standard Sky box, and get a Freesat card from Sky.

You could get a TV sender unit. I have a Gigabyte, and can change channel from upstairs, although you have to watch the same channel as downstairs. You wouldnt need to use your Sky box at all for this.

Thanks for the info.
I have got two connections from dish.

Any further help please?

AJ71

Oliver27

If the LNB is just a twin (2 outputs) then you will need to swap
it for a quad (4 outputs) and run a coax cable from the dish to
your 2nd digibox

Ebay is full of quad lnb's quite cheap for example
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QUALITY-QUAD-LNB-BRAND-NEW-BOXED-SKY-APPROVED-HD-READY_W0QQitemZ260174675275QQihZ016QQcategoryZ60838QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Also make sure you use a good quality coax cable, like CT100, H109F or WF100
and if you ever might have sky plus or sky hd in the other room consider running
a twin coax ( WF65 ) and connecting both ends at the LNB

Zagu

As Oliver said. The only consideration is cost.

To use your non+ box:
Quad LNB + connectors + coax + Freesat card, plus you'll probably be climbing up a ladder, which some people are not keen on.

The TV sender unit will probably work out cheaper, as you can get one like this, or this, plus the cost of another Sky+ remote. The draw back is that you cant watch different channels on different TVs.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

I presume that the Sky+ box wasn't installed by a Sky Engineer because they only put quad LNB's onto the dish when it's installed?

b33r

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

I presume that the Sky+ box wasn't installed by a Sky Engineer because they only put quad LNB's onto the dish when it's installed?

Don't think that's true because I only have a single LNB on mine, and loads of people on my street have dual (is everyone going to sky plus???) and I don't think any of them did it themselves. I'll have to have a closer look tomorrow as it's too dark now, I may have just assumed they were dual cos only 2 wires were coming out, might not have looked that closely...

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Quad LNB's for Sky+ has been standard for a while now. Without it you couldn't get multiroom.

Oliver27

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

I presume that the Sky+ box wasn't installed by a Sky Engineer because they only put quad LNB's onto the dish when it's installed?

I am 95% sure they did fit twin only lnb's for
a short time before the quads were the norm

You do have a good point though, can the OP
check that the existing lnb definitely only has
two ports? the other two might have little caps
on them