Help with cheapest and easiest TV set up

Kysa85

Hi,

Please help, we have just moved into a rented house and we are having trouble figuring out the best way to get our TV's up and running.

Currently we are in contract with talk talk for TV and Internet and when I phoned to do the house move we upgraded to fibre which has been installed.

The master socket for the router has been installed in the master bedroom but we don't have a TV aerial in there. So in the bedroom we have subscription channels and catchup only through the TV box which is plugged into the router but no free view.

In the living room we only have an aerial socket so we can only pick up freeview.

As we would mainly like to watch TV in the living room I would like to access my subscription channels and catch up channels downstairs but have nothing to plug the TV box into.

I rang talk talk and they are sending an engineer to relocate master socket but at a cost of £65. Since ringing them and arranging the appointment though I have found a phone socket on an internal wall in the living room, can they use that?

I purchased an indoor aerial for the TV in the bedroom so we could pick up freeview but it didn't pick up any channels, I'm not sure if it was faulty or we are in a really weak area.

I've been doing some searching on the Internet for possible solutions and have seen the power adapters but it was suggested they wouldn't work in extention leads and I need to use these.

Should I try and find a better indoor aeriel or would it be best to have a TV socket fitted in the bedroom.

Some friends of mine have suggested an amazon fire stick but I get a really good deal with talk talk and would like to continue with it.

I'm so confused with all the various different options and just want to watch TV in both rooms

Thanks

DEV1L

Just buy the right wire and go through the wall to use TV box in the living room. Then buy aerial wire and a splitter to use one aerial on both TVs

BarGin

You can get powerline plugs with a pass through socket so they don't need to be plugged into an extension lead.

MS1950

I assume you have a Talk Talk youview TV box that doesn't have a wifi connection but needs to be connected by an ethernet cable?


If so your easiest and cheapest option would be to buy a wifi repeater/extender like the ebay example linked below which extends the range of you router's wifi but also has an ethernet socket that you could connect the Talk Talk TV box to in the living room.


I bought one of these for my daughter for the same problem.



The set up is fairly straight forward:


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300MBPS-Wireless-Wifi-Router-AP-Repeater-Extender-Booster-Client-Bridge-WPS-SKY/113105487682?epid=1066831773&hash=item1a559cc742:g:cZkAAOSwWo5bj6CC