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Wiring for Sky + and Sky boxes

twenty8 · 2009-02-22 12:00:47

Wonder if someone could help me with this problem. I have 2 cables coming from my satellite and going into my Sky+ box. Since i got the Sky + I now have a spare regular sky box. Is there any way that I can 'split' one of the cables from the sat and divert it to my regular Sky box in another room?? Would this work. Thanks

22-02-2009 01:00PM

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twenty8

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Wonder if someone could help me with this problem.

I have 2 cables coming from my satellite and going into my Sky+ box. Since i got the Sky + I now have a spare regular sky box.

Is there any way that I can 'split' one of the cables from the sat and divert it to my regular Sky box in another room?? Would this work.

Thanks

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#2 22-02-2009 01:09PM

Redisle

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You can't really split the cable, if you took one of the cables from the sky+ box you would lose the facility to record one and watch one at the same time or record 2.

Since you have sky+ installed you must have a quad lnb on your satellite dish. This means that you have two spare outputs on your satellite dish. Best option is to run a new cable from the sat dish to your other room.

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#3 22-02-2009 03:37PM

twenty8

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Ahh - that makes sense.

Thanks for that.

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