installing sky eye

celticbhoy27

hi guys just bought a tv link for watching sky in different roomms of the house. was wondering do i have to buy a seperate coaxial cable to run into the bedroom or can i use the existing outlets that are in each room??? please see attached pics, thanks a mill for any help guys, i'm a complete noob here :pac:

johnwest288

celticbhoy27 wrote: »

hi guys just bought a tv link for watching sky in different roomms of the house. was wondering do i have to buy a seperate coaxial cable to run into the bedroom or can i use the existing outlets that are in each room??? please see attached pics, thanks a mill for any help guys, i'm a complete noob here :pac:

In theory I guess you could run the cable from the SKY eye to your tv/UPC box at the side of the house that feeds that outlet in your room (NEAT and tidy)
BUT AFAIK the cable should be one continuous cable direct from the sky box to the sky eye. The quality may be affected if your using a joiner/splitter.
Interesting to see what others here reckon. Im no expert thou so more people will be on to give the yay or nay

mp22

Yea, they need a straight run of cable with no joins.

harry21

They don't need a striaght run of cable per se, but most of the boxes discontinue the 9v power supply.

To get around this, I soldered mine to continue the power through the socket and into any cable that you plug into the socket.

If you don't the signal will be poor, and you wont be able to change the channel.