I need advised in installation

[Frixuelo]

Hi

Thank you very much before hand for helping people,

So,. I am looking to hire an electrician to wired my home for satellite cable and take away all this cables around the home, but I r

At the moment, I have 2 dishes one 30W with single LNB and Sky. I am looking to change the sky dish and sustitute with a 85 dish with two quattro to 13 E and 28,2 and add a quattro LNB to the 30W dish. Take the 12 leads to a multiswitch (17 /12 I am looking at Triax ) and distribute the signal trought the house.

6 cables to the living room downstairs ( 2 for Sky+ 2 For another dual receptor +1 or 2 for another box that work with Nagra 3 - Digital Plus ) and the rest of the spare slots out of the multiswich to be distribute trought other rooms in pairs.

ok? so far.. I hope this make sense,..

any recomendations for the right combination of multiswitch / LNB /Dish / and cable ?

Also is would like to see Sky and Digital Plus through the house with only one deco.. I read that Cat 5 would be a good solution ,.

But how I connect the scart to the cat 5 ? and the TV to the cat5 ?
Should cat 5 support enough bandwith for HD ?

I am in Norfolk if anyone can recommend somebody that I can use for the job is more than welcome

I do apologized if the questions sounds a bit nobbish,. I am in fact nobbish.

Many thanks

 

[Robbo]

Hi, receiving 13e and 28e from an 85 cm ish dish is not a problem, thus LNB choice is not critical, really whatever you can get hold of for the price you want to pay.

A Triax TD78 or TD88 with multiblock works well on those two sats, as does the Raven Gemini 80cm, plus many other choices.

Yes cat 5 can support Hd, but if I understand correctly, two cat5 runs are needed. You have a unit that the feeds from the sources plug into , and at the Tv end you have the opposite. This stuff isn't cheap though, especially for HD.

 

[Frixuelo]

Thanks Robbo,
Dish: I will probably will go for the triax 88 multiblock that you suggest. Triax web page recomend a bigger dish when their mutiswitches are going to be use.

For the Cat wiring.. anyone think that it will be worth considering Cat 6 or something different or it is better to use 2 Cat 5 ?

many thanks in advance

 

[satelliteman]

Depends on the length of the cat5 run. If you can, run 2 x cat5/cat6 cables and future proof the installation.

 

[rolfw]

If you are probably only going to use receivers in the main living room, what you have suggested may be overkill.

I would personally fit three quad LNBs with all twelve feeds into the loft, then run six feeds down to the living room and one feed for return from digibox, install a loftbox to feed the other rooms and run a terrestrial feed into it as well.

The you will have two feeds from each LNB spare in the loft for future use in other rooms, to which you can run a couple of coax feeds and combine using DiSEqC switches if later required.

I've just installed twin CAT5 feeds for HD in a property, using a four way HDMI splitter and HDMI baluns, I've used the RF2 return fed to the loftbox from the HD box for remote control in other rooms with TV link eyes, this could also be extended to the Digital+ box using one of the Triax or global kits.

 

[Frixuelo]

Thanks rolfw,

It is very interesting what you said, I can see that the squeme you proposed is simple, cheaper and stop worries about compatibility issues of the multiswitches.
Also I found very interesting this rf2 feed back that you mention.
Sky+ : The Rf2 output cable that you suggest is only use for controling the sky+ box,. right ? ..the signal out of there is not decripted , right ? Is it possible to control a Technomate box from a different room using the same principle?

Regarding the loftbox that you suggest.. do it need to be powered? Sorry to ask trivial things, but the web page of the tvlink seems very "lean"

Also I do not plan to do this myself,.(I just try to learn enought to dont make expensive mistakes),.. if you or anyone know somebody willing to expend few minutes with me explaining me the options I will be more than happy to hear a quotation. I would like to do this job over the next 2/3 months.

many thanks

 

[rolfw]

This is the TVLink Plus unit _http://www.tvlink.co.uk/tvlinkplus.htm will allow you to use the Sky TVLink system to control other units. A Loftbox needs a power supply, but then so do most large amplifiers.

The only company I know from that area is Broadland aerials, covering North Suffolk and Norfolk.

 

[Frixuelo]

Thank you rolfw,
Unfortunately Broadland aerials do not fit satellite ! last time I call them they refer me to a another company good on paper (cai plus ) but I was not very impress with them at the end.

Sorry to bother you with this, but could you expand what you said about TV link ? How the signal get out of the box and get distribute

many thanks

 

[rolfw]

The sky digibox has a built in system for remote controlling the box from other rooms, using RF2, the TVlinks around the house, send commands back to the digibox. The TVLink plus, uses the same cable, but has small IR transmitters which send commands to the non Sky equipment.

Not sure if the Spanish box even has RF out, but if ti doesn't, then you can use the Triax modulator to send it around the coax RF system, or if it is the HD version, use an HDMI switcher.