Move Sky Q to another room

loco_scolo

Appreciate any tips and apologies if this has been covered already.

We're a few days away from finishing a 2 year renovation. Our current living room will become a bedroom, and the new living room is at the back of the house. We've wired every room for Ethernet and have a central comms box in the middle of the house.

Is it possible to move the Sky Q box to the new room without getting an engineer out? Maybe some clever way to divert the feed to the new room using the Ethernet cables?

Our Sky Q subscription is due for renewal in October.

The Cush

SkyQ requires a direct connection to the satellite dish.

Either rerun the existing cables to the new location or run a new pair of coax cables.

If you can't do it yourself any local aerial/ satellite installer can do the job.

Ideally this should've been done during the renovation.

loco_scolo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122432071#Comment_122432071

Okay thanks. Yeah I did buy a long coax cable and discussed it with my electrician (when there was still time to install it), but he strongly advised it wasn't necessary as Sky are getting rid of their dishes and pushing the Internet connected boxes.

The skirting boards are being installed today in the new living room, so I might see about running a coax, though it's a bit awkward getting to the dish.

Our house/area has been pre-enabled for fibre optic Virgin network, but it's not rolled out yet. I'd like to wait until this is done, then sign up to a complete package with Sky. Right now our only real option for broadband is Virgin and other companies are not allowed to use their older network.

machiavellianme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122432098#Comment_122432098

Satellite dishes aren't going anywhere just yet, even if Sky did decide to dump them at some point. You can still get FTA channels with the right setup. It's better to have the option than not as far as the wiring goes, especially if you have an Internet outage as the dish would still be available.

The Cush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122432098#Comment_122432098

Bad advice from the electrician.

I would always recommend internal coax cabling for Saorview, Sky, Freesat, FTA, if required.

As the old saying goes, better to be looking at it than looking for it. That would apply in your situation.

A pair of coax cables are required for SkyQ, one for horizontal polarisation, the other for vertical polarisation.

swoofer

If you go to the sky website and click on stream and that is sky over broadband, you could just re-negotiate the sky q bit.