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Thanks so I will just stick with my faceplate setup and keep the freesat signals separate on another booster. I literally have two f type satellite outlets in four of the rooms so will work really well. It solves the issues with getting another LNB and dish and paying someone to do it when I...

Yeah it does look like a good setup apart from the price but I guess you get what you pay for with it! I don’t have triplex euro module anymore as I wanted more space for CAT 6 cables on my double gang faceplate. I have freesat feeds on a separate wolesely booster anyway but only have a 4...

Yes I think I am on the MK4 dish and saves me getting it all changed over and I can’t really do that bit myself as it’s 4 metres up. I take it you don’t have any signal/channel issues with using this dish? I have all four rooms wired in with shotgun cables so I will just plug all four double...

That would save a lot of work as I currently have a sky hybrid LNB which has the two LNB feeds from the wideband connectors in the loft. When you say ‘normal’ mini dish are you talking about a more round dish as opposed to the oval ones? My dish is only a few years old and not sure if that would...

Is there a recommended maximum distance for the feed from the quattro lnb to the switch. I am sure I read somewhere 10 metres is the comfortable limit and my run would be getting close to that probably around 9 metres. The cable sky supply has that aluminium braid - If I ever get sky in the...

Yes I am using cat 6 UTP cable and I have WEBRO WF100 cable throughout the house. Is the WF100 cable double shielded as I just went on the website for the spec but could not see any reference to the shielding 'layer'. I noticed the HD100 is triple screened but not sure if this means the WF100 is...

Ok yes it may be a problem then even with the lower eaves on that room. I guess the next problem is the lower down you have them you then have the issue with someone tampering with them. Is it better to get a dome or bullet camera? I have a switch connected to the dream machine which has POE...

I have now wired up my home network and placed cat 6 cables in rough areas where I wish to place some CCTV cameras. I am still drawn towards the eaves of the house as this would be so much easier to do compared to the other locations! I have a room above my garage which really needs some CCTV -...

I was planning on placing the switch and the feeds for the other rooms in my network rack but I am a little concerned with electromagnetic interference on the ethernet cables as they will be in close proximity to one another. I am not sure if the switch (triax TDSR) boosts the signal like a...

Ah right I see so if I plugged my terrestrial feed into the switch and then went to a TV and scanned for freeview only it would pick up the freeview channels via the switch and not the freesat channels ? That’s good to know frees up a lot of cabling already set up for terrestrial tv in my house

Interesting to know that the switch option could be used with my current hybrid LNB and commit to one of the rooms being fed from the two sky q outputs on the LNB itself and the other four into a switch. That is the cheaper way of doing it as I guess the multi switch I need for that is cheaper...

That makes a lot of sense now so low voltage, high voltage, horizontal or vertical polarity. Quad LNB tuned to one of the four groups. So I need to work out if my hybrid LNB is a quattro LNB or not and if not swap this over and then get a multi switch in the loft. I presume the octo LNB that I...

So if i used a Triax 508 with a quattro lnb with say 4 freesat receivers that had two connections in each of them would they work completely fine if I wished to record one channel and watch another on every box at the same time? Are they using limitations for this receiver as it only has four...

yes I was very surprised to see such a big drop lurking underneath 270mm of insulation in the loft!!

Yes it is an option and all comes down to compromises I presume. That way I guess it would just be one feed to four rooms and no way of recording one programme while watching another channel if it’s fed through a multi switch? I have a couple of freesat boxes which I like using - the other way...

that is another option I guess - I could do a smaller hole that way. I was planning on doing just a big enough hole to get my hand in so that I can literally reach in and grab them with someone standing at the top dangling the cables to me.

Thanks Ken There is only really one hole to drill and that’s the one from the garage wall into the cavity itself. When I go up into the loft and look down into the cavity I will be able to see my hand if I put it through the hole as there is nothing at the top of the cavity. I have already got...

Yeah it’s a new build but about 7 years or so old. When you mean full fill are you talking insulation? If so I have looked straight down the cavity from the loft and was surprised to see no insulation in there apart from up to about 500mm from the ceiling line of the garage itself. I do wonder...

I live in a detached house with a garage joined to the property with a bedroom above the garage. Separating the garage (and the bedroom above) from the main house is an internal cavity wall of 350mm (including 100mm thermalite blocks either side). I plan on drilling a hole from the top of the...

It’s not really an option where I live so think I’m going to have just stick with an Octo LNB.