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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: pauls on 31 January 2017, 20:39:45
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At present we have have 4 sky boxes running in my house and father in law as 1. We are all moving in a couple of months down to somerset and from what i understand being its a new setup i have to have the new q box and i will not have enough coverage to cover 5 tvs. Anybody advise on better options its not cost its just we need to have 5 on the go at once. I was thinking of just running free view boxes but i dont know if one arieal would cover it
Ideas please....
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Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. :y
Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want. ;)
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Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. :y
Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want. ;)
Yep. When we moved, we just brought our boxes with us. Don't let Sky talk you into a more expensive package, sounds as if you're paying enough already. I guess they may have to come out and run some more cables for you, 5 boxes is a lot.
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Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. :y
Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want. ;)
Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.
Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"
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Also you can't mix and match SkyHD boxes with Q boxes, the LNB is different. :(
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So why wouldn't the boxes the OP currently has work connected to the same type of dish at his new premises? :-\
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So why wouldn't the boxes the OP currently has work connected to the same type of dish at his new premises? :-\
If he did not tell Sky he was moving, they would work no problem. Assuming the house he is moving to does not have a Q LNB dish install, then it would be plug and play if it was the boxes only.
However I think Paul has Broadband with them? (I've replied to your PM btw Paul!) - Sky have tagged this as a move, as such it's an auto-upgrade to SkyQ. Policy is now we don't do installs with old boxes, it's only SkyQ installs now.
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Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.
Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"
Progress!
;)
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Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.
Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"
Progress!
;)
We know the customer wants it. He doesn't, but...
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I think more boxes will be supported, I doubt they would change the LNB for this either. So I think it will be a firmware/software update on the main Q box, to support more mini boxes.
As Mini boxes work over powerline/wi-fi, no direct Satellite feed.
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Hi sorry forgot to say no sky broadband. Just tv.
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Sounds like a DIY install at your new place and forget what Sky are trying to push on you, as it doesn't have comparable features. ;)
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As Mini boxes work over powerline/wi-fi, no direct Satellite feed.
I'm sure you know I was being cheeky really - the mini boxes are progress, in a lot of ways; not having to cable every room back to the LNB being a major plus for new installs and meaning someone could add a new room by just plugging a box in, not paying a man to come and run cable.. forcing people on to it where it's sub-optimal is, I suppose, par for the course in technology circles (my employer being as guilty for that as anyone else, I am sure!)
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Careful! Don't get me started on Powerline networking. >:(
Can't see either that or Wi-Fi coping with many set top boxes around a house, which is probably why they're limiting it. I'd fully expect to have to run UTP around the house. Not that that's a bad thing, because that opens up all sorts of other possibilities.
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I'd fully expect to have to run UTP around the house. Not that that's a bad thing, because that opens up all sorts of other possibilities.
The real solution to any network issue, esp for static devices :y
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If I ever build my own place it'll have UTP everywhere in droves..
Here I'm using mostly that thing KW doesn't want to hear about :-X and WiFi.. at some point I'll get around to cabling everything properly like I had done at the last place (which the tenants are now presumably benefitting from ;D), maybe. Possibly. If I can be bothered to get off my arse..