Best Coax cable

glineli

Hi

Whats the best quality cable to use for a small distance, about 2 foot from the back of a sky+ box and a sky HD box to a distribution point, SPC4 box?

I just find the cable i am using now keeps losing the ability to change the channels in the other room so i have to go in and mess around with cables, not much fun

thanks

Tony

TX100 or any CAI approved spec will work well.

glineli wrote: »

Hi

Whats the best quality cable to use for a small distance, about 2 foot from the back of a sky+ box and a sky HD box to a distribution point, SPC4 box?

I just find the cable i am using now keeps losing the ability to change the channels in the other room so i have to go in and mess around with cables, not much fun

thanks

glineli

thanks Tony, will pick some of that up.

One last question, i have a DSU 2DC splitter in the attic, is there a 4 way splitter version of this? i need one that will provide the power to the magic eye and the others just need the signal.

thanks

Tony

What you need to use instead is a sky compatible amp like the Global F140 or a triax amp if you need more than 4 outlets. The global is powered from the sky box the triax is mains powered.

Hope this helps

glineli wrote: »

thanks Tony, will pick some of that up.

One last question, i have a DSU 2DC splitter in the attic, is there a 4 way splitter version of this? i need one that will provide the power to the magic eye and the others just need the signal.

thanks

glineli

Ok so what i have is 2 boxes that feed that SPC4 box that then feed a 4 distribution box. One of the outputs is then split in the attic using the 2 way splitter, the DC powered output goes to the magic eye and into the bedroom, the other non powered output is then connected to the PC.

I was wondering if there was any way i could have another output, non powered from the splitter and whats the best splitter to get. So i will have one eye off one output and just the signal off the other 2

Tony

You would lose too mucg signal gain by splitting. I'm open to correction but I think the output from an f140 amp will work ok with your pc card without using splitters at all.

glineli

Thanks Tony, i will try that