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FTA via fibre in apartment

  • 19-10-2019 05:27PM
    #1
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I got Sky installed in my apartment last year. There is a communal dish somewhere, and the installer ran fibre from a junction box up the external wall and used some sort of transceiver to connect to the sky q box. I am cancelling sky and was wondering if I could get the FTA channels through this fibre cable? If so, any recommendations for a cheap and cheerful box?
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Does anyone have any insights on this? Apparently Sky can control the individual feeds from the fibre connected communal dishes. Can anyone confirm this?


  • #3
    tsue921i8wljb3
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    I'm not sure but it is possible that if you cancel the Sky service they will disconnect the feed to your premises.


  • #4
    Vic_08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    Dante7 wrote: »
    Does anyone have any insights on this? Apparently Sky can control the individual feeds from the fibre connected communal dishes. Can anyone confirm this?

    Your apartment would need to be manually disconnected, how easy this is depends on how the fibre is wired. If each apartment is wired separately to a junction box then it needs somebody to go and pull the cable from there.

    It is also possible to wire it like tree branches with multiple splitters which would make it more difficult to disconnect your apartment.

    I suppose it is also possible to remove the fibre GTU from your apartment but that would require access.

    If you are going to cancel sky anyway then just go ahead and see if anybody pulls the connection, I would say there is a good chance they won't.


  • #5
    Dante7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭Dante7


    Vic_08 wrote: »
    Your apartment would need to be manually disconnected, how easy this is depends on how the fibre is wired. If each apartment is wired separately to a junction box then it needs somebody to go and pull the cable from there.

    It is also possible to wire it like tree branches with multiple splitters which would make it more difficult to disconnect your apartment.

    I suppose it is also possible to remove the fibre GTU from your apartment but that would require access.

    If you are going to cancel sky anyway then just go ahead and see if anybody pulls the connection, I would say there is a good chance they won't.

    Thanks for that. I have cancelled Sky. They are sending me out a box to return the Sky Q box. That is all they have asked for. I'll keep the fibre transceiver and see what happens.

    When it was installed, the engineer located a junction box on the outside wall of the block, and ran a fibre cable from it to my apartment. It's the only connection to this box.


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