apartment satellite connection

Bankprop

Hi guys,
Looking for some advice please. I just bought an apartment with a shared satellite for all the apartments. There is a junction box outside which is a bit of a mess. My question is how can i identify which coax cable is for my apartment in the junction box? What would i need to test what satellite cable services my apartment. Thanks in advance.

Thurston?

What's in the 'junction box', & if you identify a cable going to your apartment, what are you going to do with it? You're saying some cables are connected to something & some are not?

Bankprop

Hi thanks for the reply. The cabinet outside has all the satellite cables from the apartments coming into it and there is a junction box with some of the satellite cables connected to it i.e. some of the occupied apartments have a connection to the satellite. The remaining satellite cables are not connected and i need to identify which cable is for my apartment and connect it to the junction box.

Mayo Yid

A professional would use a tone generator to send a signal on the cable and use a probe to pick up this tone identifying the cable

Kensington

Are you sure it is actually a satellite feed, and not something like a UPC cable instead?

The vast majority of shared dish setups and installs in recent times are passive fibre with fibre optic cable as far as your set-top box, where they place a small convertor box with four co-ax connectors which emulates an LNB.

Check with your management company, or a neighbour you know has a satellite connection.

Thurston?

Could also be Unicable/SCR: has been mentioned here before in a Sky-sponsored apartment setup. Or might just be an ordinary multiswitch.

And yes, probably best not to mess around without permission.