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I suppose if @platforminc had an existing multiswitch switch installation then it would be a viable solution. As he's starting from scratch though it's less relevant The Arris 4K boxes can certainly cope with either legacy LNBs or wideband. Unless something has changed with the Q box specs, I...

I guess then it directs a quad in a way that emulates a quattro. So then, not that useful for @platforminc and his application. Was there another reason why you brought it up?

I haven't studied the documentation. The inputs look like those from Quattro to me. HH, HV, and so on. Like I said in an earlier post, satellite stuff is now on the periphery of what I do. Maybe you could advise @platforminc how he would connect this to feed 8 rooms with legacy signals? If he...

You're correct. There are a few solutions like this. Different ways to skin a cat. This one needs the signal from a Quattro LNB, or its pass-through via an older multiswitch installation. If the idea is to add a couple of feeds for a Q box onto an existing system without changing the main...

One or two of your local TV aerial guys could advise better. Local knowledge, and all that. The Octo is the simple solution, albeit with a lot of cable from the dish. Whether you go Octo or multiswitch, you still need a whole bunch of cables running to the rooms, so the extra cabling is really...

If I understand your question correctly then I think the answer is probably no, but I haven't looked too far into it to date so the situation may have changed. I think what you're asking is if there are any multi-output wideband LNBs. Is that right? As far as Sky Q installations go, you'd...

The Octo LNB is the cheapest way. You're going to hit a few snags though, especially if you want to incorporate Sky Q - an Octo feeding 8 rooms only allows for a single feed to each room. That's okay for just TVs, but it rules out using any kind of dual input recorder, so you don't have the...

The hybrid LNB might not be a bad option depending on whether you plan to record. We sacked Sky going on for 2-years ago. I watch most of my programming via streaming services, so I worked out that I hadn't watched a film or TV series off Sky for about 6 months. My wife and I then looked at...

And after all that, Australia still doesn't have the sheer density of digital TV transmitters on the ground that the UK does, so the problem of juggling all the UHF frequencies isn't the same either. Add to that, Oz uses a bigger UHF range. You have 42 individual channels between RF Ch28 and...

It is more expensive, but not massively so. A decent terrestrial aerial is around £20-£40 ($40-$80 AUD). A perfectly serviceable 60cm sat dish with quad LNB and wall mount would be around £40-£60 ($80-$100 AUD). What you're perhaps overlooking is the difference in geography and in population...

I'm not speaking for Eric, but I have to say that I'm a bit flabbergasted by your reply. I hope it's just the way it's written and not what you actually mean, because if you really meant it, then this would display a shocking lack of empathy. You don't understand his issue!?! What's so...

I think you might be misinterpreting the data. They're not counting people or people watching. They're counting homes (houses, flats, etc) within the signal reach of the transmitter. The data is quite old, and it's likely more houses have been built since. That's the most practical way that...

Your local Freeview transmitter is a small relay. It fills because there's a shadow from some geographical feature (hills, valleys etc) that blocks the signal from the main transmitter. Many of these fill-in transmitters carry a reduced service. The channels you get on Freeview Lite are the core...

You can stop the requirement to retune by turning off the 'auto update' or whatever your TV manufacturer happens to call it. After that, you can manually scan the other region transmitter's muxes and add those to your main region channels. This 'not getting your local BBC' was a bugbear of the...

For the UK the range of channels available via subscription service (Sky satellite or Virgin cable) is much larger than the UK's Freeview and Freesat national broadcast platforms. That's the whole point of subscription TV. It's to have something that isn't on the free-to-air platforms. For...

No one-off payment. Just buy the gear to receive it - a Freesat receiver or recorder. or a TV with Freesat as well as the normal (for the UK) Freeview service provision. Freeview and Freesat are two sides of the same coin. They're the UK's national broadcast platforms. The only payment is the...

Likely that there are some bits missing, so the signals are interrupted. One possibility is that the sat receiver's RF out fed a TV amp so that the same channel could be viewed in several rooms.

You have the advantage of being there, so you can prod and poke about. The first photo could have been board - and something like Aquaboard does have a mesh coating. In fairness, you did say that your builder said the mesh was there to help the lime render stick, but that still leaves a question...

The thing on the end of the arm of a satellite dish isn't really the LNB. It's simply the housing. What's inside the housing is the important thing. It can have one, two, four or eight LNBs inside it. That's possibly the simplest and lowest cost way to feed multiple satellite receivers, so yes...

It is possible to distribute a single LNB signal, but you're going to end up with the TVs fighting for control of the LNB.