Splitting Sky satellite signal

[Joe Shmoe]

Just had a complete rewire done in a rental property, and dropped twin cables down in several places for Sky, giving tenants various options for furniture layout.

Is there some kind of splitter box available, that would allow me to terminate all the cables in the loft, and then the master cables from the dish can just be put into the correct terminals?

Just trying to work out what to do with all the cable ends in the loft, to make it easy and appropriate for the sky engineer to hook up a new installation if tenants opt for that.

 

[woodenstx]

Its tricky as you really need a single cable to a single LNB (hence why you see 8 cables running to new fancy LNB's

You can get boxes that take a special LNB input and then split it over 8-12 outputs using fancy pants switching.
Like this http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/multiswitches.htm

 

[flying haggis]

also be aware that some multiswitches cannot handle sky Q signals , as sky have altered the lnb feeds from the dish to the new sky q boxes. how many rooms do you want to feed?

 

[Joe Shmoe]

Wow, that's a lot of money!

I wonder if I'm just best off terminating them all in F connections, and then if sky is installed, the cam just hook the master cables from the dish to the respective pair.

 

[flying haggis]

the easiest solution might be an 8 output lnb fed into four rooms(two cables to each room)

a multi switch capable of feeding four sky Q boxes doesnt come cheap

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[woodenstx]

I put an octo LNB on my dish, ran 8 cables to it and then terminated them all in the loft ready to connect to anything we may need. Cost pence over a single cable install really and saves getting up to the conservatory roof in future