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Can I split a Sky cable to run into 2 room

  • 14-08-2020 8:14am
    #1
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I have a 4 LNB Sky dish and I am using one of them to run to a SAB freeview box in my son s room. It gets all the UK channels free so happy days.

    Now he is away working at moment and we as the parents are looking at moving the SAB box to our room. This would either mean extending the cable from sons room OR can we attach a splitter in his room and we each run a cable off the splitter.

    There would NEVER be the chance that we both be watching at same time... so can it be done??? Can you split this signal like this without loss of quality?

    Many thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ei9go
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭ei9go


    No.

    Each room needs it's own cable to work properly


  • #3
    bittihuduga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭bittihuduga


    i think you could do. you could watch same channel on both receivers (or should i say same frequency)


  • #4
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,048 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Masala wrote: »
    Hi. I have a 4 LNB Sky dish and I am using one of them to run to a SAB freeview box in my son s room. It gets all the UK channels free so happy days.

    Now he is away working at moment and we as the parents are looking at moving the SAB box to our room. This would either mean extending the cable from sons room OR can we attach a splitter in his room and we each run a cable off the splitter.

    There would NEVER be the chance that we both be watching at same time... so can it be done??? Can you split this signal like this without loss of quality?

    Many thanks

    You can simply join your cable to the end of his and use it while it is not being used in his room.
    This would join two 'male' plugs to extend the cable

    f-type-joiner.jpg


  • #5
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,527 ✭✭✭Masala


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    You can simply join your cable to the end of his and use it while it is not being used in his room.
    This would join two 'male' plugs to extend the cable

    coaxial-coupler-100.jpg

    Ya.... that what I was going to do.

    So - when he wants the SAB box - he just plugs it in and then unplug our cable from the join and then re-join the SKY cable to the SAB box. When he disappears again for a few weeks - I just rob back the SAB box and re-connect the cable back to the connector to connect back to my cable to bedroom and then set up SAB in my bedroom.


  • #6
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,048 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Masala wrote: »
    Ya.... that what I was going to do.

    So - when he wants the SAB box - he just plugs it in and then unplug our cable from the join and then re-join the SKY cable to the SAB box. When he disappears again for a few weeks - I just rob back the SAB box and re-connect the cable back to the connector to connect back to my cable to bedroom and then set up SAB in my bedroom.

    I changed the type of connector ........ that one if used for terrestrial connections and the other one (now in the post) is used for satellite connections.


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