Sky multiroom help needed?

Question

i live in an apartment and have no access to my sky dish. i want to fit sky in my bedroom but refuse to pay the costs sky want. is there any way i can fit it myself without access to the dish. one final thing if you dont know then don't answer!!!

Answer 1

It is not possible to watch sky with separate channels at another location without changing the LNB on the dish from a single to a twin type. For this you would require two receivers or a sky+ box. The only way would be to use a multiplexer but signal loss would result causing too many problems and conflict of H/V switching and 22kHz tone generation.

If a communal dish is used then a twin LNB will be feeding a multiplexer in the loft space and a single output to each flat.

Answer 2

A lot depends on how confident you are in doing your own cabling.  Go to Maplins, or use the website:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/

Get a satellite splitter, satellite cable, and four connectors.  Take connection from Sky box and put onto splitter input.  Make short cable for one output to go to original position.  Make longer cable to go from second output to new installation position.  Job done.  Not sure that you save a lot on the Sky install charge, and you still need another viewing card subscription.

Answer 3

you can use a magic eye £15.00 from argos. wire this up to your tv in bedroom and get a sky remote for that room. that enables you to watch sky and change chanels in bedroom, but you have to watch the same program in both rooms, you cannot watch 2 different chanels.