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2 UPC Points want a 3rd

  • 21-10-2011 9:02am
    #1
    Buttynic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Good morning, I am looking for advice. I currently have two UPC points in my house (sitting room and bedroom), one is a recording box and one is a normal box. I have asked UPC what the cost would be to install a third point (playroom) and I have been told it is €90 in total for the connection. What I would like to know is it possible for me to get just the analogue channels on my third tv without having to get another UPC connection ? I am not very techy so any help/guidance would be appreciated. Regards T


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  • #2
    Fresh Pots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    To get analogue in a third room all you have to do is split the connection going to one of the other rooms and feed a cable into the playroom. Fairly easy to do, just make sure to buy a good splitter or the reception will be quite poor.


  • #3
    Buttynic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Buttynic


    Do I use the splitter on the cables located in the attic ?


  • #4
    Fresh Pots
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    Yeah, you split the cable in the attic, and then drop the cables down into the bedroom and playroom.


  • #5
    steveon
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    On many of the UPC boxes you dont need to split anything, at the back of the box you will see a second connection, and you can run a cable from this to receive the analog stations, and this is usually slightly boosted due to the box so its a better solution to that of splitting the signal which may hamper the box from working correctly.

    However yo cannot split a cable if you are on the MMDS signal as you will get nothing but one or 2 channels i think if memory serves me rite, MMDS is a square Mesh aerial put on roofs usually in the country or new estates in city/town areas that are not cabled.


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,067 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    steveon wrote: »
    However yo cannot split a cable if you are on the MMDS signal as you will get nothing but one or 2 channels i think if memory serves me rite, MMDS is a square Mesh aerial put on roofs usually in the country or new estates in city/town areas that are not cabled.

    On MMDS you need a set-top box for each television, as its encrypted (even the analogue service).


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  • #7
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭Antenna


    icdg wrote: »
    On MMDS you need a set-top box for each television, as its encrypted (even the analogue service).

    I'd say analogue MMDS has ceased everywhere by now?
    Its certainly gone in Cork - ages ago.


  • #8
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    icdg wrote: »
    On MMDS you need a set-top box for each television, as its encrypted (even the analogue service).

    I know the MMDS signal is encrypted but if you run a cable directly to your tv from a box second rf on the mmds boxes and do a scan you will pick up either TV3 or Discovery channel depending on where you live.


  • #9
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    Antenna wrote: »
    I'd say analogue MMDS has ceased everywhere by now?
    Its certainly gone in Cork - ages ago.

    MMDS widely used in the countryside including CORK and most counties in Ireland.


  • #10
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Carlow52


    steveon wrote: »
    On many of the UPC boxes you dont need to split anything, at the back of the box you will see a second connection, and you can run a cable from this to receive the analog stations, and this is usually slightly boosted due to the box so its a better solution to that of splitting the signal which may hamper the box from working correctly.

    However yo cannot split a cable if you are on the MMDS signal as you will get nothing but one or 2 channels i think if memory serves me rite, MMDS is a square Mesh aerial put on roofs usually in the country or new estates in city/town areas that are not cabled.

    Is the analogue signal from the back separate from the digital or is it the same channel on both TV's?


  • #11
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    steveon wrote: »
    MMDS widely used in the countryside including CORK and most counties in Ireland.
    Analogue MMDS? I don't think anyone can get that in Louth or Meath anymore for example.


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  • #12
    nw2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭nw2010


    No Analogue MMDS at all anywhere for several years now. Only 2 'test' digital channels clear without encryption and there not what anyone would want to watch EWTN (non stop mass !) and city channel, and RTE 1.


  • #13
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    Analogue MMDS? I don't think anyone can get that in Louth or Meath anymore for example.

    I never said Analog MMDS i stated MMDS which is now a Digital Service . It is used throughout the countryside where there is no cable networks.


  • #14
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    steveon wrote: »
    I never said Analog MMDS i stated MMDS which is now a Digital Service . It is used throughout the countryside where there is no cable networks.
    Antenna said "analogue MMDS" was now ceased throughout Ireland and you replied to this with "MMDS widely used in the countryside including CORK and most counties in Ireland." That was somewhat vague, so I asked if you meant analogue MMDS or not.


  • #15
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    Antenna said "analogue MMDS" was now ceased throughout Ireland and you replied to this with "MMDS widely used in the countryside including CORK and most counties in Ireland." That was somewhat vague, so I asked if you meant analogue MMDS or not.

    Ok must have missed over that, and apologie to you as Indeed Analog MMDS no longer used thanks be to god as it is rubbish.


  • #16
    Skittle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭Skittle


    Sorry for digging up a slightly old thread, but can anyone confirm which boxes have a normal coaxial RF out?

    We have the standard UPC Pace box for out sitting room, we take the output from the RF Out on that box and then send it into a splitter to feed the analogue signal to the VCR and two other TVs.

    If we upgrade the digibox to a HD version will we lose the Analogue RF out?


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