Toby wrote:

"BodgeIt" wrote in message
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Hi, I'm planning to have sky multiroom installed shortly. I've seen
some wretched looking installs, cables just thrown over the roof and
guttering et.c and I want to make sure the cabling is as neat and
unobtrusive as possible.The logical install is to traverse the house
front to back through the attic and drop cables from the attic into
the rooms. But a local aerial installer tells me sky engineers aren't
allowed to work in peoples attics anymore so all cabling is external.
So my plan is to run all the cabling myself so all the sky engineer
has to do is mount the dish and terminate the cables at the dish and
at the sky boxes. Anyone done this? Are sky OK with it? What's the
exact spec of cable to use from the dish to the boxes.

I did exactly the same when NTL installed at my house, I wanted to route
the cables very specifically, so I spoke to them, and they said it was
fine and supplied me with all the cable and asked me to call them when I
was ready for them to connect it all up!

Me too (again NTL) though I'd already used my own cable. They were Ok
with it subject to disclaiming responsibility if my cabling was
inadequate etc etc (which of course it wasn't!)

David