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Help with my sky dish

  • 10-07-2018 10:20pm
    #1
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,893 ✭✭✭


    I bought a house with a dish on the chimney. I thought it was the neighbours but she told me it's actually mine. There's no wall points for the satellite, except one (well, it's a loose coax cable). There seems to be cables goin down the outer walls but I don't know what they are or where they're going.

    I found out about the satellite being mine while the upc installer was drilling into the front wall. I asked him to use his cable tester on the existing cable and he said there's nothing. No signal.

    Firstly, is it the case that maybe his tester only works for cable and not satellite? I'll be hooking up a freeview satellite to test it when I move in fully so I'll know for sure then.

    Secondly, how can I get it all running smoothly? Do I just pay an installer to reinstall? Tbh I don't want more cables installed over existing dead cables. Is there anything I can do myself before hiring somebody to do the work? I heard sky registered installers will only wire from dish to box, but I'd rather they wired to a box in the attic, which I can hook up a saorview antenna to and get freesat + saorview.

    Speaking of boxes, I've attached a photo of a box in the front of my house. The upc fella was messing with it. I'm hoping that dish is wired into it but I'd hazard a guess and say its just where the upc line comes in.

    I'd love a splitter in tee attic that does upc, sky and saorview, but I'm thinkin that'll require more of a rewire.


Comments

  • #2
    Johnboy1951
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    Trace the routes of the cables and keep a record of them, so you can provide the info to anyone who comes in to do some work.
    It is unlikely that any professional will want to attempt to use old existing cable of unknown quality so they will string new cables as required.


  • #3
    The Cush
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    How many cables connected to the LNB on the dish arm? If it's an old dish it may have only 1 cable down. If the Virgin Media installer had the correct equipment to test the cable connection to the dish and got no signal the dish may have moved since installed or the LNB on the dish may be faulty or the cable/connection may be faulty.

    The box under the soffit is the VM cable tap, and it's just for Virgin Media cable use. Is the heavy VM trunk cable running through the soffit in that picture?

    I would recommend getting a satellite installer to have a look at your exiting setup, to see what's working and what cable goes where.


  • #4
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,893 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    Well I don't really wanna be getting up on a ladder and going near the roof. I can visually trace the cables as far as that Virgin Media cable tap, then it looks like there's 2 cables going up on the roof to the dish. There's actually 2 coax cables going into the back of the house but there's no points inside the walls. So it looks like they're dead too. So that would make me think its a quad LNB.

    I also can't even see the dish to confirm, as its behind the chimney. It's good in a way coz its nice and tidy and unobtrusive, but I haven't a hope of seeing the LNB without getting up close to it.

    I reckon I'll have to go looking in the attic as well. As you can see from the first photo, there is a coax cable going into the soffit, BUT, on the other window there is the remains of a snipped coax cable dangling loose, so I'd say thats what we're seeing. It seems this house is full of disconnected coax cables. Not sure if they go near the attic or not but I'll have a look.

    So I take it there's no way of me tapping into this Virgin Media tap? Like I said, I want a neat and tidy solution where everything is hidden in the attic (VM, SKY, SaorView) with minimal mess outside the house. How can I achieve this?

    I've seen splitters online that I was thinking of putting in the attic, which have a number of inputs for VM, SKY and SaorView and then all the outputs have access to each of these, so potentially one cable can tune in all 3. Then I'd either run a cable to the living room/bedrooms, or potentially try use the existing cable that the VM fella installed the other day.

    The other option is ethernet. I have Cat6a wired throughout the house. I have 4 points behind the TV, 1 of which will be used to wire up the WAN from the VM modem.


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