splitting sky cable

mburke

I have sky installed and the enginees ran the cable on the outside of the house to the sitting room.

What I would like to do is split the cable and run a second cable into the attic and connect it to the cable that goes to the various sockets around the house.
Will I still get a quality picture if i do this, and will a standard splitter be ok ?

Lennoxschips

Satellite cables require two way digital communication between the digibox and the dish at all times. Standard cable tv spits out all the channels through the cable at once, but with sattelite the channel is tuned in at the dish, and then sent down the wire all by itself, and only the receiving digibox can understand it. You can't "split" the signal like you can with the signal from your aerial or multichannel cable.

The only way you could achieve a similar result would be to put a special LNB (receiver bit) on your dish that has multiple receivers and then run multiple cables from the dish into the house. You would also have to setup multiple Sky Boxes as well in each room where you want to watch satellite tv. But that would be fairly dear of course.

The inability to cheaply share the signal between multiple TVs is satellite tv's major drawback.

sergeant121

Originally posted by mburke
I have sky installed and the enginees ran the cable on the outside of the house to the sitting room.

What I would like to do is split the cable and run a second cable into the attic and connect it to the cable that goes to the various sockets around the house.
Will I still get a quality picture if i do this, and will a standard splitter be ok ?

As Lennoxschips says, you cannot 'split' the coax from the dish and a multi-output LNB with associated new cable runs would require a digibox in each room.

However, you could use the RF2 out socket on the digibox as the start point for an internal RF distribution system - making the same Sky channel available in every room.

If your terrestrial aerial coax is routed via the digibox, the terrestrial channels and the digibox's output could then be run to the sockets around the house.

EKRIUQ

Or what I did, I have one cable out of the RF signal to televison in the bedroom and on the back of my main television I put a spliter and connected a cable from the splitter to the back of the TV in the kitchen and it carries the signal of all the channels to the television in the kitchen.

The Real B-man

and then get a i-link so you can change the channel from lets say your bedroom without getting up and walking to the digibox in your sitting room make sure its connected straight from the RF 2 port as it carries the power for it & dont connect it to any other device between box and i-link you can use the RF-1 port to do what you orginally suggested.