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2nd Sky box?

  • 11-02-2014 6:09pm
    #1
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭


    I'm getting a new Sky+HD box on Thursday upgrading from an old white Pace box. From a few internet searches I gather I can use the old box as a FTA receiver in another room?

    The problem I have is my dish seems to be already at capacity. There are 4 cables running from the dish, 2 saorview boxes and the old Sky+ box and looks like no more room for any more cables.

    So is it still possible?

    I'm hoping to get the Sky engineer to do for me, if I give him/her a small cash incentive. :D


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  • #2
    hallo dare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭hallo dare


    IsMiseJoe wrote: »
    I'm getting a new Sky+HD box on Thursday upgrading from an old white Pace box. From a few internet searches I gather I can use the old box as a FTA receiver in another room?

    The problem I have is my dish seems to be already at capacity. There are 4 cables running from the dish, 2 saorview boxes and the old Sky+ box and looks like no more room for any more cables.

    So is it still possible?

    I'm hoping to get the Sky engineer to do for me, if I give him/her a small cash incentive. :D

    Octo lnb, diy job if you're any way handy. Pop off the cables that are on the original, take off the quad lnb, put on the octo, screw back on the original cables and you've room for 4 more sky boxes or 2 sky+ boxes


  • #3
    pizzahead77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭pizzahead77


    IsMiseJoe wrote: »
    I'm getting a new Sky+HD box on Thursday upgrading from an old white Pace box. From a few internet searches I gather I can use the old box as a FTA receiver in another room?

    The problem I have is my dish seems to be already at capacity. There are 4 cables running from the dish, 2 saorview boxes and the old Sky+ box and looks like no more room for any more cables.

    So is it still possible?

    I'm hoping to get the Sky engineer to do for me, if I give him/her a small cash incentive. :D

    Saorview boxes don't use Satellite so they can't be using any feeds from the dish. Saorview is the digital terrestrial TV service


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    pizzahead77 wrote: »
    Saorview boxes don't use Satellite so they can't be using any feeds from the dish. Saorview is the digital terrestrial TV service

    My thinking is it could be a Saorview combi box.


  • #5
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭IsMiseJoe


    Yes sorry, they're saorview combi boxes.
    I'm not really that handy, but if the sky engineer won't do it, I might wig it myself...


  • #6
    monty_python
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭monty_python


    Ive 2 sky+ boxes and 4 standard boxes running off 1 dish so i should be possible


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  • #7
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    IsMiseJoe wrote: »
    I'm not really that handy, but if the sky engineer won't do it, I might wig it myself...

    How old is the Sky dish?

    If the dish is older than Jun 2009 you may require a legacy adapter for the new LNB

    http://www.tvtrade.ie/octo-lnb.html


  • #8
    winston_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭winston_1


    IsMiseJoe wrote: »

    I'm hoping to get the Sky engineer to do for me, if I give him/her a small cash incentive. :D

    You won't be getting an engineer as Sky don't use them, they use installers.

    He/she will need to change the LNB to an octo (8 output).


  • #9
    IsMiseJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭IsMiseJoe


    The Cush wrote: »
    How old is the Sky dish?

    If the dish is older than Jun 2009 you may require a legacy adapter for the new LNB

    http://www.tvtrade.ie/octo-lnb.html

    When the saorview boxes were being installed the old dish was replaced with a new one. That would have been a few weeks before the switch over.


  • #10
    flashjohn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭flashjohn


    winston_1 wrote: »
    You won't be getting an engineer as Sky don't use them, they use installers.

    He/she will need to change the LNB to an octo (8 output).

    adjective: pedantic
    1. 1.excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.










  • #11
    flashjohn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 229 ✭✭flashjohn


    I just gave the sky fella €40 cash and he put up an octo LNB, no prob, will have 8 line capacity then


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  • #12
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    You could get a unicable LNB, this would allow up to 8 connections from just 1 cable using a few unicable splitters. That would be the easiest solution.

    Or change the quad lnb to a quattro lnb and use a diseqc switch with the required number of outputs.


  • #13
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    The receivers need the SCR/Unicable software or, have 'legacy' outputs in the system for those that don't.

    And not all multiswitches need a quattro LNB, some will work with a quad. It's recommended though, that the 'next size up' dish is used with anything that adds noise to the system &, in Ireland, using Sky dishes would be going against this recommendation.


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