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Thread ID: 118892	2011-06-25 06:29:00	Sky	xyz823 (13649)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1211915	2011-06-25 06:29:00	I've managed to convince mum into getting sky, and she's happy for me to pay extra for multi room if it is actually possible. Mainly because my room is the sleepout! Now, from what I know they basically run a seperate cable from the dish to the second decoder? Would there be a way to circumvent this? Or would it be possible to have a cable run under the ground to my sleepout? It's no more than 5M from the house. Cheers	xyz823 (13649)
1211916	2011-06-25 06:38:00	Run the cable yourself back to a splitter maybe?	gary67 (56)
1211917	2011-06-25 07:49:00	I have lived in a place where they I think split the signal to my bedroom :D I think they just paid the standard 1 unit price. Maybe it is the AV out from the Skybox. But you won't be able to change channels :p That needs another Sky Box and Sky charges you more every month for it :thumbs: That method splits the Sky dish cable I think. So you end up diff leads to each Sky box.	Nomad (952)
1211918	2011-06-25 07:58:00	We did this but as we already had a dish we got them to setup a new connection and installed a 2nd dish on the sleepout :)	Gobe1 (6290)
1211919	2011-06-25 09:00:00	A splitter (which you can DIY) means you get the same channel - doesn't require 2 decoders. The multiroom thing - thats where they charge you an additional $25 a month to have 2 decoders, and you get your own channels. I'm sure you can bury the cable ok, it's pretty well insulated.	pctek (84)
1211920	2011-06-25 09:10:00	Best to ask sky if the installer will do the trenching & lay the cable to the sleepout. They may charge you extra. The price sky pays their installers isn't enough to cover a tricky or time consuming install which is why they usually run the cables down the side of the wall & through a vent in the foundations instead of doing a tidy install	Greven (91)
1211921	2011-06-25 12:39:00	5m? Just hang it. Nowadays all sky installs are with dual-head quad-out LNBs (so four boxes can connect to it independently, each having full access, no matter the polarity or satellite). If you're just after FTA TV, then pass on the second decoder, you can just run another cable of your own to the LNB. If you go for 'multiroom' then it's just the same (box gets it's own cable to the LNB), just with a sky box on the other end. You can have a bit of fun with the new LNBs, I'd get an FTA box in addition to the second sky box if I was you. Your box can 'see' two different sat's (Optus D1 and C1, D1 being the main SKY bird, all it has to do is play a 22KHz tone up the line to switch it), sometimes you get feeds of stuff. Basketball, V8's, sometimes a link will go out somewhere in aus and they use the AU/NZ beam on a bird as the backup, so you get a free aus chan for the night. Good fun. The price sky pays their installers isn't enough to cover a tricky or time consuming install Got that right. It can be summed up as 3/8ths of sweet fa.	ubergeek85 (131)
1211922	2011-06-26 08:47:00	Cheers for the replies guys, gonna hit up sky tomorrow about it and see what they say. Might get one of dads mates around to run the cable, he owes us a favour :lol:	xyz823 (13649)
1211923	2011-06-26 10:06:00	Why would you ever have 2 Sky dishes :confused: :D You'll probably just use one of them anyway, split it from your 1st decoder to your room if you want the same channels as your family are watching or else like Pctek says you pay more every month and you get your own decoder in your own room. That might mean a split right at the Sky dish outside the house (and routed into your room).	Nomad (952)
1211924	2011-06-26 13:58:00	That might mean a split right at the Sky dish outside the house (and routed into your room). No need for that nowadays, the new LNBs have four outputs, so no splitter needed, just another cable into the LNB. Anyway, with splitters, you're limited to the same polarity on both outputs, decided by the 'dominant' output, usually marked as "DC power passthrough".	ubergeek85 (131)
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