sky/sat via cable?!

talkingclock

mods feel free to move if it is the wrong forum. it's half sat, half cable...

i live in an apartment block where lots of people had have mounted sat dishes on the balcony. the mgmt company demanded to have these dishes removed and installed a massive huge communal sat dish with two LNBs to receive sky on astra 28 degree and some polish programs on eutelsat/hotbird13 degree (i suppose).

i suppose that those satellite signals are somehow distributed over the already existing cable system (chorus/ntl/upc).

i assume in order to receive sky you need to connect the sky sat box to the cable system (antenna plug in the wall). i hope to get along with sky the other freeview channels (BBC, film4 etc).

and so i hooked up a freeview sat receiver to the antenna plug in the wall and tried to get a signal. i have switched off Diseqc and tried all pre-configured satellite but none of them showed any signal reception.

the system seems to work as i have seen neighbours watching some polish channels.

what's wrong? someone in a similar position with a hint for me?

kbell

Good to see a management company using common sense and listening to the tenants for once.
I'd imagine you'd have to contact the company that installed the hardware and ask to be connected to the system.

steveon

Usually the wall socket in your appartment would have to be changed to a diplexed wall socket that will usually split the signals from sat and terrestrial. I would imagine you will have to contact the mgmt company or their selected installer and pay a fee to be ho0oked up to their system.

talkingclock

thanks for the input lads!