Moving the Cable for my Sky Box

krustydoyle

Well folks, im living in an apartment and ive my sky box wires coming in through the kitchen area and i wanna move the box down to the spare room turning it into a tv room. how would i go about doing this? i basically need to send the 2 wires down the hallway to the room.

Thanks

zg3409

If you have a phoneline connected to the box you need a phone line to the new location.

If it's a recording box you need 2 cables between the dish and the box. Depending on where the dish is, it might be easier to go straight to the dish.

If it's easier to just extend the two cables from the kitchen then you would need two of these:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Satellite-TV-DIY-Extension-Kit-15M-Coaxial-Cable-BRAND-NEW-/320850632389?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item4ab4301ec5

It's basically a cable with an F male connector on each end, and then a barrel joiner for connecting the two cables together.

It would be best to use high quality branded cable with a copper screen and a copper core, especially if the run is going to be more than 10 or 20 metres.

If you do make up your own connections be 100% sure that no strands from the screen are touching the centre core. This can break your box, so check carefully.

Another option is to use a Sky eye. Leave the box where it is and run one cheap cable from the RF2 connection to the other TV. At the other TV end, install a Sky eye and then you can watch the box on either TV. It's a bit more complicated to setup, but the cable quality is not as critical.
http://www.sky-remotes.com/setup-sky-magic-eye.shtml

krustydoyle

The first option seems the better option. so ill look into that. thanks