Nick

Hi

I'm thinking of upgrading from Sky Digital to Sky Plus. Can anyone tell me what is involved in the installation please?

Currently, I have a dish with 1 cable going half way around the house & into the roof. It then goes into a duplexer with the terrestial aerial, so I then get a single cabel going down the outside wall & into the living room. It then goes into another duplexer to be split into digital & terrestial again.

My thoughts are that Sky Plus allows you to watch one channel while recording another? If so, will that mean I need 2 receiver thingys on the dish & therefore 2 cables? So therefore, I would also get 2 or 3 cables down the outside wall & another hole drilled through my 18" thick wall!??

Power Junkie

iTrader: (1)

Yes you need a 2 port LMB. The +box has 2 decoders so more cable.

Nick

Thanks for your reply.

An LMB is the thingy on the dish?

messiah

LNB - Line Noise Block - yes - thing on the dish.

MartinM

Low Noise Block-downconvertor

My sky+ box came with a 4-port LNB in it - two spares I suppose!

gsm1

Yeah, they normally fit a quad LNB. Make sure when the installer comes he does actually bother to tape over the F-type connectors connecting to the LNB. The installers I've had rarely bother and even when they have they use bog standard electrical tape rather than amalgamating tape.

ozzy

You may get a new 4-port LNB, but this could only be with Sky+ AND multi-room installs.

As the others have said, the Sky+ box needs to have two seperate cable runs from the dish LNB so that it can decode two seperate channels.

Whatever you do, don't go splitting or combining the cables from LNB to STB (set-top box) as it can damage the STB due to the LNB's fighting each other over control voltages.

You'll get two cables down the outside of the house and probably an extra hole in your nice exterior wall. If you went for Sky multi-room, then you'd get yet another cable from the dish into the house or if you went for multi-room Sky+ (two Sky+ boxes), then you get 4 cables. Not the prettiest thing, but not a lot can be done unless you get the cables into the house as close to the dish as possible.

Stefan

Nick

Good advice, thanks.

So it's 2 wires down the wall then, I suppose I won't need a terrestial aerial any more? I only used terrestial for time shift VCR recording - I could use Sky + in future.

Power Junkie

iTrader: (1)

I thought it was LNB, But I have fat fingers
Yes two wires all you need.