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Originally Posted by rfryer0791  Sorry I am having the same issues.
1) I am a little confused - is the multiswitch built into some boxes or can you buy a separate multi switch and use with the sky + box I have just purchased?
2) What do the multi switches look like?
Thanks
Russell |
Multiswitches are distribution amplifiers used in communal installations (and larger domestic installatiions). They require 4 inputs from a quattro lnb (NOT a quad as used in domestic installs) on a larger than normal dish. They are made in various versions with 6,8 and 12 outputs and also with4,5,8 and 9 inputs, the 8 and 9 input ones are for use with two lnbs for two different satellites, the 5 and 9 input ones are for adding terrestrial TV signals to the feeds to each flat. They can also be cascaded together to easily provide up to 48 outputs and even more with extra equipment. They are NOT a substitute for use in a flat for insufficient cables being available in a particular flat and are absolutely useless with only 1 input.
Domestic lnbs usually have 1,2,4 or 8 outputs and their use is preferable to using multiswitches unless more than 8 outputs are required.
If you have the problem of only one input in your flat you have only two choices fit your own dish (not usually acceptable to most landlords/ management committees) or to get the people responsible for your communal instalation to provide an extra output for your use and either another cable to your flat or to fit a stacker/destacker units (approx £100 plus fitting) to your existing cable providing it is of a good enough quality and short enough to allow twice the frequency band you have now. The stacker combines the two feeds into the one cable to your flat where the destacker unit splits the signal back into the two required feeds.