On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:08:07 +0100, BodgeIt wrote:

The lounge will have a Sky HD box and the the main bedroom will have a
sky+ box. So how will this affect the cabling requirements from the
dish?

Probably a good idea to run two cables to every point that may want a
DSAT box. You need two for the abilty to "watch one channel, record
another" that the Sky+ box will let you do.

Does a "Skymulti room" installation just install a multiple outlet
(Quad or higher) LNB with home runs to each room or do they install a
quattro LNB and a proper multiswitch? I suspect the former as it's
the cheaper, quicker and simpler for the Sky engineers (I use the
term loosely) to fit.

As you are doing all the hard work of installing the cables why not
do the whole job of dish/quattro LNB and a multiswitch? It's not
difficult.

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Cheers
Dave.