Question for any Sky installers out there or anyone that knows!!

Currently wiring my lounge etc for a fairly large AV setup, i've just completed my data connections and added a CAT 6 connection to every room upstairs and a fair few in the lounge (ps3/wii/pc etc etc).

Next month I will be getting Sky installed so would like to know what cables I need to put in place. The satellite will be positioned right near where I want the Sky+ box to be in the lounge (old satellite dish already there which i'll be tearing down), so I presume the engineer that comes to install will just want to plumb it straight to the box. However, I want the to be able to view it in all rooms (not Sky multi rooms though, just the one box downstairs). In the loft I have one of these Labgear things:

http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.ph...&pname=HDU681S



Am I correct in thinking that I will need to have two Satellite cables between the Sky+ box and the Labgear, one to the 'Downlink Out' and one to the 'Uplink Up' or does one of these go direct to the Sky dish itself? If not then how would I wire it in? I want to get the long wiring done asap so its all in place for the engineers!

Cheers
Chris

 

sorry i dont no about the sky stuff apart from there is 2 cables to run sky +

but wot i wonted to say is you have put cat 6 cable in why cat 6 . as i used to install cat 5 and cat 6

 

Cool cheers, just literally read up as it goes about needing 2 cables from the dish to the receiver, for the dual LNB or something? Just need to know how to plumb the labgear thing in now!!

With the CAT 6 I didnt pay anything for the cable!! Also I believe CAT 6 runs at 1Gb so hopefully future proofing.

Chris

 

it will run about that only if its in right if not it will run at cat 5 speed

with cat 5 you can twist it not it stand on it and it still runs at the same speed but cat 6 if you sand on it bend it run it with power cables it will slow down to cat 5 speed if you look it up you willsee that cat 6 has it own type of trunking with big swooping bends in it

But saying all that it will run very nice for the job you will need it to do

 

Interesting didnt know that! The cables are running on their own though!

For what I need at home Cat5 would have been ample but didnt cost me anything anyhow!

Chris

 

The idea with these is that all signals, including sky-aerial, go to the DA and you run a single cable to each room, then use a special splitter (also made be labgear) to seperate the signals.

You don't have to use it like that though - you can run both LNB signals to the sky box as normal, then the RF2 output on the SKY receiver goes to 'uplink in'. You then just run 1 UHF cable to each other room and install a sky-eye/triax link jobby in-line.

Simples.

Chris

 

To clarify:

1-UHF from SKY RF2 -> Labgear Uplink-In
1-UHF from Labgear OUTx -> TV UHF-in in each room

The only downside to doing it this way is that you won't get terrestrial/freeview/fm/dab in the room with the sky receiver.

Chris