Splitting Sky+ Cables
Discussion
The next stage of the TV reshuffle 
I currently have a sky+ cable coming through the wall, in the corner of the room, of course it's the wrong corner, so my plan was to split the cable on the outside of the house using something like this....
Pop them in a weatherproof box, and then drill another hole in the wall for the new cable, these 2 cables would terminate in wall sockets, and only one would ever be used at any one time, would I lose some signal strength or is the plan sound?
I wish I could just pay Plotless to pop round and sort it all out while I'm at work
I currently have a sky+ cable coming through the wall, in the corner of the room, of course it's the wrong corner, so my plan was to split the cable on the outside of the house using something like this....
Pop them in a weatherproof box, and then drill another hole in the wall for the new cable, these 2 cables would terminate in wall sockets, and only one would ever be used at any one time, would I lose some signal strength or is the plan sound?
I wish I could just pay Plotless to pop round and sort it all out while I'm at work
So you have Sky+ yes?
That means you should have two drops from the dish.
Just move their location on the side of the house, drill the new hole and stick them through. If they arent long enough, feed into a weatherproof box, terminate the 4 ends with F-connectors and use two back to back F couplers.
Unless you need two points to be active at the same time, then you need another two drops, its not as simple as just splitting the cable.
That means you should have two drops from the dish.
Just move their location on the side of the house, drill the new hole and stick them through. If they arent long enough, feed into a weatherproof box, terminate the 4 ends with F-connectors and use two back to back F couplers.
Unless you need two points to be active at the same time, then you need another two drops, its not as simple as just splitting the cable.
Plotloss said:
So you have Sky+ yes?
Plotloss said:
Unless you need two points to be active at the same time, then you need another two drops, its not as simple as just splitting the cable.
That pretty much answers the question, I don't actually need the 2 points to be active I was just aiming for a bit of future proofing, I'll probably never move the TV back to it's current location but I was just going to leave the room with the option.In that case I'll just drill a new hole (the cable actually passes the location of the new hole on it's way to the existing hole) and feed it into the back of the new wall socket.
Never managed to find any stainless ones, so white plastic it is.
That would involve going up ladders....I don't do ladders if I can help it.
Anyway....been busy today and it's just about done.
Sky+ cable rerouted to the new location, terminated in home made wall socket, only small issue at the moment is the magic eye link isn't working, and the surround sound cables aren't in, ran out of time today so thats a job for tomorrow.
Having second thoughts about the wall mounting now the TV is in a new location, we'll see how it goes.
Only downside so far is my big way too big for the room...in fact the house... speakers are now surplus to requirements.
Anyway....been busy today and it's just about done.
Sky+ cable rerouted to the new location, terminated in home made wall socket, only small issue at the moment is the magic eye link isn't working, and the surround sound cables aren't in, ran out of time today so thats a job for tomorrow.
Having second thoughts about the wall mounting now the TV is in a new location, we'll see how it goes.
Only downside so far is my big way too big for the room...in fact the house... speakers are now surplus to requirements.
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