[BIONIC MAN]

Looking to install own cable runs for Sky HD and Freesat,

Whats the best coax cable to use

I will be using two cables from the LNB for Sky HD in main living room, cables would come down from loft outside front on house and then use the extra two inputs on LNB for Freesat Dinning Room and bedroom.

some cables will come down from loft and chased in walls to down stairs and bedroom, not sure on size of runs but the longest would be no more then 30 metres from dish.

So guys what the cable is best to use, as once chaseed in walls not looking to change

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

CT100 sat cable should be ok on those runs without signal loss.
Maplins got this,or maybe cheaper on the net.
CT125 sat cable is abit of an over kill and it is a stiff cable.

Hope this helps, do you have to chase the walls abit messy?

Good Luck.

[BIONIC MAN]

Originally Posted by Waterhorse

Hi BIONIC MAN,

CT100 sat cable should be ok on those runs without signal loss.
Maplins got this,or maybe cheaper on the net.
CT125 sat cable is abit of an over kill and it is a stiff cable.

Hope this helps, do you have to chase the walls abit messy?

Good Luck.

Thanks for the reply, is this the same cable that Sky would use ?

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

Yes the CT100.

Good luck.

[BIONIC MAN]

Been looking on Webro.com and seen the following

WF100, HD100 Class A+

Was thinking of using HD100 Class A, whould this be a good choice

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

Yip thats fine. Sorry didn't back to you sooner just got back in from work.

Happy wiring!

Waterhorse

[BIONIC MAN]

Me Again

Need some more advice, If I was to chase cables into walls would Sky do the HD install or would they wish to place own cable from dish to box

The reason I'am asking this and I was going to run the main living room cables up in loft and down outside wall into living room.

Today was sseeing how much cable I needed and though why not chase in walls from loft using less cable

Await advice, thanks

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

As long as the cable you have said you are going to use is the correct one I can't see a problem.

If you have a normal sky box and are changing to HD then they only change the box not the cable don't they? But I would phone to just check.

I have my dish on the other side of the house to the TV downstairs, so I ran cable from dish up wall through sofit into loft space along loft and came out of sofit in the otherside of the house and ran it down behind rain water down pipe to hide it down to the height of my aeriel socket then horizontally along brickwork and in. No chasing.

Don't forget if you are recording on Sky or Freesat you will need to run 2 cables (one record and one viewing) so on both Freesat and Sky, that would be four in total.
For the upstairs TV just run cables from loft space down inside studwork walls.

You can get either Quad LNB or Octo LNB.

Hope that helps.

[hornydragon]

Always run 4 cables to the dish (from loft or where ever) that way you have them if you add extra receivers you can easily run 16 Sky+/HD/freesat boxes* of for 4 cables from a dish with the right bits

* 2 cables from each box to loft and 4 from dish to loft

[toledo]

Hi i ran 40m of PF100 between dish and UK freesat box , we now have a stunning picture and we live in mid-france, apparently outside the Astra 2D footprint .
Cable is very flexible and claims to be very durable , our cable runs under the floor from the front to rear of house so didn't want to have to do it again anytime soon.
See TLC direct for best deal i found, i paid £31.00 plus vat delivered for 100metre reel.
Bonne chance !

[BIONIC MAN]

Originally Posted by hornydragon

Always run 4 cables to the dish (from loft or where ever) that way you have them if you add extra receivers you can easily run 16 Sky+/HD/freesat boxes* of for 4 cables from a dish with the right bits

* 2 cables from each box to loft and 4 from dish to loft

Hi There

I'am looking to run main room with Sky HD and dining room and bedroom both with Freesat.

Using all 4 inputs on LNB, using Webro HD100 would be a good choice of coax right

[hornydragon]

should be fine as long as its cAI approved cable

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

Yip thats all ok.

waterhorse.

[BIONIC MAN]

Thanks for all the advice

I went for 100 meters of Webro WF100 which I have just installed today, chasing in walls a nighhtmare.


This seems to be a good choice cable.

[Waterhorse]

Hi BIONIC MAN,

Great said it would be, I bet you need a bath/shower, abit dusty work isn't it.
Did you sort out your speaker cable question ok in the speaker section?

[script]

Sorry to jump in here...I'm new

Hornydragon...I have two dish feeds to a sky box,can I split one of them to a freesat tv and back to the sky box.Just reading your post and with a few bits it can be done?
tia