Headend system

beatman91

Does anyone have a clue what you would pay for a headend system for a b&b.

Say 6 satellite fta boxes and an aeriel.

Cabels are ran to the rooms from a single point.


Thanks

Tony

what type of cable has been run?

beatman91

Tony wrote: »

what type of cable has been run?

Coax the thick one like satellite or ntl. Shielded

Tony

forgive me but thats like saying "thick water pipe" to describe water pipe. Cable is usually described by the serial no which should be visible on the outer sheath EG RG6 or H109, is it double copper or aluminium shield?

beatman91

Tony wrote: »

forgive me but thats like saying "thick water pipe" to describe water pipe. Cable is usually described by the serial no which should be visible on the outer sheath EG RG6 or H109, is it double copper or aluminium shield?

its triax ct100

Tony

Triax don't make CT100 cable but leaving that aside assuming the cable is copper tape and braid you need an 80cm dish (assuming its Astra 2 you want) quattro lnb and multi switch. Apart from the cost of these it really depends on the labour time of the installer. You can get good set top boxes for 99 euro or less.

Sam Radford

beatman91 wrote: »

Say 6 satellite fta boxes and an aeriel.

Do you really want an aerial as well as a dish?

You can feed up to 8 satellite receivers from an OCTO LNB on a dish. Cable should be WC100 (CT100 and H109 are obsolete) or WF100 (foam dielectric - less prone to kinking). Buy F connectors to suit the cable. You'll also need sundry other items such as cable clips, cable ties, 10mm drill, plastic grommets, hole covers, maybe wall plates...

watty

Quad or Quattro + a Multiswitch allows up to 16 receivers/tuners and allows up to 3 more Quattros later to add 13E, 19E (on one dish) and maybe 5E, 5W or 42E on 2nd dish.

Much better for a B&B. The Multiswitch can take Quad or Quattro for first LNB and also TV aerial in.
Then Sat/TV splitters at each receiver. Not much difference in price compared with Octo and half as many outdoor cables.

bigbob

I don't think he wants to put sat receivers in each bed room. I think his plan is to daisy chain 6 decoders rf output (located together) onto existing co-ax connected to the tv in each rooms.

This might be a simpler solution from a cabling & guest use of tv/decoder remotes but limits the choice of channels available to the guests to current terrestrial channels + 6 preset decoder channels.

watty

It's also terrible quality. The Sky RF modulators are noisy. Daisychain 2 of them makes it hard to add a TV aerial.

You would be better with a Triax or Polycom box of "headend"/CATV modulators fed from the SCART of the digiboxes. Also non-Digibox FTA receivers for ITV & BBC.

It's an old fashioned rubbish solution compared with a FTA (€65) receiver in each room (45 decent free TV channels out of 200+ and 20 decent radio inc RTE & BBC out of 70+) and the 4 Irish channels via aerial into multiswitch terrestrial input.

Contractually you also have to pay a HUGE subscription for each Sky card if you are feeding a setup with six skyboxes/cards feeding all the rooms.

dkane

Contractually you also have to pay a HUGE subscription for each Sky card if you are feeding a setup with six skyboxes/cards feeding all the rooms.

Are there contractual implications with having a FTA box in each room? As in do any of the FTA channels (BBC, Sky News, etc) require the payment of extra fees before they can be LEGALLY shown in guest rooms?