Re: Loftbox users?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bruno. Uselful stuff.

In my case, I think my runs will be a lot shorter. - perhaps 15-20 metres
>from
>from
more than 1-2 metres away from that. I'll be leaving a couple of metres of
slack in the long run from the dish anyway, so if I do find its not good
enough, I can easily take the LNB1 cable direct to the Sky+ box instead.
TBH, I'm not *that* desperate to distribute sky anyway, as I already have 2
digiboxes & 2 subs (1 upstairs, 1 down). The downstairs one used to
distribute to the kitchen via the RF2 out, but I've long been intending to
replace that with a KAT5 feed anyway and send composite rather than UHF.

Upstairs I've not bothered distributing the RF2 out from the digibox up
there because 99% of the time there's no need to be able to watch in in any
of the other bedrooms (I'm not in the doghouse that often!), plus I also
didn't want the possibility of guests changing the sky channel from another
room as I might be watching in the master bedroom, or more importantly,
TiVo
might be recording something.

The most useful thing for me is going to be distributing the CCTV, and
simplifying the mish-mash of coax cables I've built up over the years...

Paul G.



>From: Bruno Prior <bruno@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Loftbox users?
>Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:17:37 +0100
>
>I've just done exactly that (LNB1 via the loftbox, LNB2 direct). The
>picture's fine, but I am getting some sound breakup, compared to if I
>have the Sky+ box connected direct to LNB1. It's a hell of a long run,
>though (around 25 metres of cable from dish to loftbox and at least as
>much again from loftbox to intended location in living room), so it may
>be that which causes the problem. Is there any such thing as a booster
>for digital, that I could add to the line from the loftbox to the
living
>room?
>
>And as for distribution of the terrestrial signal - it's not that great
>in my area to start with, but by the time it's covered that distance
via
>the loftbox, it's either hopelessly degraded or so weak that the TV
>can't autotune to it at all (at least that's the only reason I can
think
>of why I don't seem to get any signal at all in some of the rooms). I
>need to figure out a solution for that.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bruno
>
>
>Paul Gordon wrote:
> >>Mines' under the floor Paul, no problems and its been there
for 2 years.
>As
> >>you say though, useless for Sky+.
> >>
> >>K.
> >
> >
> > Well, not entire "useless" I hope?... I am presuming
that I will still
>put
> > the LNB1 feed through the loftbox in the intended manner, and
this won't
> > affect the operation of sky+ in any way... It's just that because
the +
>box
> > has 2nd LNB feed that the loftbox won't touch with a long sh*tty
stick,
>I'll
> > just have to take that 2nd feed straight to the sky+ box, as I
would
> > normally do anyway...
> >
> > That's my intention at least...
> >
> > Paul G.
>
>
>
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