Cable TV in different rooms

[mondeoman]

I know that Sky are advertising a multi-room option now, but does anyone know if there are gadgets out there that I can get hold of to allow me to have TV's in different rooms watching different stations, when its all supplied by cable? Telewest want to charge huge £££ for the installation and then monthly for effectively having two services at the same address.

The guy who installed it all was worried about signal strength, as we have tv, phone and broadband through the same cable (as far as I know) so any solution would "probably" need to cater for this.

Over to you.....

[BliarOut]

If you don't mind the same satellite channel, all it takes is a bit of cable. I do this on NTL and it works just fine. Just take the output from the box to the room you want and plug her in. If the signal's a bit weak, get a booster/splitter box, job done.

[alexkp]

I have Two NTL cable boxes, one in the Lounge and one in my den.

The box in the lounge also has an extension cable run to the kitchen, so you can watch whatever is on in the lounge in the kitchen.

Dead easy to do.

Don't try to run more than two TV's off one box though, as apparently this can cause problems. I guess it would be ok if you got a signal booster and splitter though.

[BliarOut]

Alex, we are going to have to stop agreeing on things.... It's just not as much fun

[alexkp]

BliarOut said:

Alex, we are going to have to stop agreeing on things.... It's just not as much fun

Yeah...take your damn NTL box and shove it up your ****.


>> Edited by alexkp on Thursday 9th December 12:12

[alexkp]

Actually, any ideas when NTL are going to replace their crappy little box that freezes and crashes with something more akin to Sky+?

I only keep NTL because of convenience. Their technology and service is pretty awful.

[mondeoman]

BliarOut said:

If you don't mind the same satellite channel, all it takes is a bit of cable. I do this on NTL and it works just fine. Just take the output from the box to the room you want and plug her in. If the signal's a bit weak, get a booster/splitter box, job done.

I was kinda hoping to be able to watch different channels in different rooms - very useful when you've got 4 ankle biters in the house and you're sick of bloody cartoons!

Lots of receivers on e-bay, but then there's the hassle of getting them chipped n so on (which at the mo I really don't understand - more research required)

[BliarOut]

anonymous said:

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Yup, have you got the newer Pace box or the old Scientific Atlantic one?

I had the locking up problem for ages... Three new boxes, then I finally got an engineer who knew his stuff. Out with his box of tricks, fivve minutes later. "It's not the box, its the terminator on the end of your fibre is the wrong strength"... He changed it and I've had no problems since. Been fine for a few years now.

Right, back to hostilities....

[cotty]

anonymous said:

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I have just done the same thing, easy only cost £5.99 for the cable but had to buy a new drill bit

[alexkp]

BliarOut said:

anonymous said: [redacted] Yup, have you got the newer Pace box or the old Scientific Atlantic one? I had the locking up problem for ages... Three new boxes, then I finally got an engineer who knew his stuff. Out with his box of tricks, fivve minutes later. "It's not the box, its the terminator on the end of your fibre is the wrong strength"... He changed it and I've had no problems since. Been fine for a few years now. Right, back to hostilities....

I have the Pace ones - but it's still pretty old and rubbish, oh and grey (how very last century...)

Be nice if they would update their equipment with something 21st Century.

[vodkakid]

You can buy little boxes from argos that send the signal where ever you want! look near the tv/dvd bit!! cost about a 100 quid

>> Edited by vodkakid on Thursday 9th December 14:07

[mcflurry]

vodkakid said:

You can buy little boxes from argos that send the signal where ever you want! look near the tv/dvd bit!! cost about a 100 quid >> Edited by vodkakid on Thursday 9th December 14:07

They only work on the channel showing.
For 2 channels you need 2 boxes etc.

Telewest and Sky used to do something where you pay an extra £5-15 a month and get all the channels replicated. I assume they still do something similar.

[jconsta6]

Moved house recently - had EXCATLY the same thing - daughter wanted cable in her room...

Old house had - 1 x TV 1x PHone 1 x 3mbs Broadband.
New house wanted 2 x TV 1 phone 1 x 3mbs Broadband

No extra installation charge - just £15 per month for the new box.

Engineer was great he said any more than 2 with high speed broadband and I MAY start to loose performance, however I'm still seeing 3.6mbs on average and rarely see anything less than 3, have peaked at 4.2.

Installation guy also ran me up several "spare" cables as I said we'd be moving everything to different places once we'd sorted - he left me with about 100ft of extra cable, and also replaced our dodgy remote control on the old box which when I phoned up to get repaired they said would cost £20!!

Thats the only was as they've already said 2 boxes required for seperate viewing.

Cheers,

JC

[Fatboy]

anonymous said:

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Echo that - in the god-awful shit pit that is the telecoms sector, NTL are right at the bottom. The w*nkers still owe me money.