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Drogheda connection - Chorus-branded socket on the wall

  • 28-04-2009 12:25PM
    #1
    tamlinek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    It may be a stupid question, but I thought that Chorus transmits through satellite as well (in Drogheda at least), and I will be able to connect skybox to the same socket and have sky. This is what I have done some time ago at my previous apartment in Drogheda, and it worked flawlessly. Now I have skybox that says, that there is no satellite transmission. Is that ok? I started to think that my skybox is broken or sth (I have it for some time).
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  • #2
    Borgman100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Borgman100


    Hi.

    Sounds to me you are trying to plug in a skybox to a cable tv connection, hence no signal.


  • #3
    tamlinek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭tamlinek


    it is possible, but I thought Chorus' mmds is carried from satellite dish to receivers :/

    Just looking for confirmation


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    It wont work. You will need to use a satellite dish to get a signal on a sky box. An aerial for MMDS wont get you a signal.


  • #5
    tamlinek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭tamlinek


    I thought the dish is also used for that, not aerial. Thx!


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,785 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mmds comes from a transmitter usually on a hill and is received by a mesh aerial on a roof.
    Chorus do that.

    Sky comes from a satelite 10's of 1ooo's of miles up in the sky.

    If your previous abode had a cable that worked your sky receiver,you can be sure the cable went to a satelite dish and not a chorus mesh mmds aerial.


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  • #7
    tamlinek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭tamlinek


    I had a satellite dish, and there was a Chorus logo on socket. Thus I assumed, that Chorus transmits through satellite. Probably socket was there before, someone when installing dish just used it, or somethung similar. Now I'm enlightened.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    mmds comes from a transmitter usually on a hill and is received by a mesh aerial on a roof.
    Chorus do that.

    Sky comes from a satelite 10's of 1ooo's of miles up in the sky.

    If your previous abode had a cable that worked your sky receiver,you can be sure the cable went to a satelite dish and not a chorus mesh mmds aerial.


  • #8
    kbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭kbell


    Sent you a message there tamlinek..


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tamlinek wrote: »
    I had a satellite dish, and there was a Chorus logo on socket. Thus I assumed, that Chorus transmits through satellite. Probably socket was there before, someone when installing dish just used it, or somethung similar. Now I'm enlightened.

    Yeah I'd say that was it, maybe there was a Chorus connection there previously and the installer reused the existing socket.


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