We have four cables from the LNB and one (combined) from the terrestrial aerial and FM aerial (on the same pole). The signals are fed into a multiswitch under the floor and two cables feed to each room in the house. One cable caries satellite only, the other carries satellite, terrestrial TV and FM radio - the standard (quadplex) faceplate splits the signals to separate connectors. A simple and effective way to distribute various signals around the house, without too many cables.
SteveW
I have a quad LNB, A roof mounted UHF aerial and loft mounted DAB aerial. I have a distribution box in my loft. 3 rooms get DAB/UHF and satellite via 1 cable to each room. 1 of the rooms also gets a second satellite signal via a second coax cable.
All this was installed before Unicable LNBs, boxes with FBC tuners and wi-fi distribution around the house was common place.
If you're running the cables in the same direction anyway, easier to have more cables than f*ck about with fancy boxes.
You'll be telling me you prefer the old ethernet system next, where one coax cable ran round the whole building.
And then something changes and you find you have to re-cable. Is it really so hard to run two cables in the same route?
But nobody uses UHF any more. And as for radio, come on, that was superceded by TV decades ago. The sooner all yapping DJs are stoned to death the better. And put it on TV, not radio, so we can actually see what's going on.
ROFL! I see flats around here with one dish per flat. I'd fit an octa-LNB to each dish and serve 4 flats each.
You buy the bracket with the LNB, big deal, probably costs a fraction of the LNB.
It's a different story when you have 1000s of people getting data along one route. But inside your house, FFS just use more cables.
No you need to ensure the F-connector is properly aligned on the STB, if you can't get all the Sky channels try tightening it by 90° then use some loctite to make sure it doesn't move.
Surely 45 de3grees to get half way between horizontal and vertical?
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