cost of getting a second cable to sky plus box?

amandac

can anyone tell me how much i should be paying to get this done? have replaced a standard sky bos with a plus box in the kids room but there is only 1 cable running into it so can only record the channel that is being viewed, ive phoned up a place this morning and they are charging 150 euro :eek:, if its that expensive ill get the driil out myself:D , im in dublin 8

xsiborg

you could do it yourself, hole in the wall, run the cable through, no big deal.

amandac

believe me if i could i would but the dish is a good bit away from the box so i would have to tack it to the outside wall, dont fancy trying that, anyone know how much it should cost to get an installer to do it?

mathias

Is it just a cable you need here ? How many sky boxes have you got , just two ?

The Reason I ask is that you most likely have a quad lnb , in which case , there is room for four cables , thats four standard boxes , or two sky boxes , any more than that and you need a new lnb , Octal probably , and they are a bit expensive , which may explain the price , otherwise , yeah 150 is too much.

amandac

yeah i have a quad lnb and i have a hd box and plus box(with one cable) so its just a cable i need , there is room for one more cable on the lnb so i definately dont need the octal lnb, i thought 150 was too expensive for what i needed done

steveon

Lots of installers on here including myself but Im Limerick based...why not say where your from and you might be lucky..

amandac

i did in the first post, in dublin 8 near guinness factory

steveon

Ah so you did my apologies...but unless you live in huge house I think €150 is a tad on the expensive side myself ....I'd do it in Limerick for about €60-€70 depending on time involved..

amandac

do you know anywhere in dublin that would do it for around the 60-70 price? i dont live in a huge house, just a flat

Cuchulain

Wouldnt a satellite splitter do it?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=9273&doy=8m4

Sam Radford

Not if he wants both Digiboxes to work independently.
See http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/split_feed.htm

Tony

amandac wrote: »

do you know anywhere in dublin that would do it for around the 60-70 price? i dont live in a huge house, just a flat

Most guys I know (including myself) would charge around 90 euro for this, traffic time is a factor which may account for it being slightly more expensive than outside Dublin.

freesat

I agree €90 sound about right.