I want to install two satellite connections in the same room in my house. This is so that we have the choice of where to position our tv/satellite equipment.

Bearing in mind that we will never want to have a satellite box connected to both of the connections at the same time, is there some kind of basic splitter that I can get to split the cable from our dish through to both sockets?

I could purchase an LNB but think this is a bit overkill.

Please can somebody advise?

[Nick_UK]

I wouln't advise a splitter, but what you can do is to have the satellite cable(s) coming out to a wall box in position A, then have cables running to another wall box on the other side of the room (position B). When you want to use the satellite in Postion A, just run a jumper cable to the wallbox to the satellite. When you want to use it at position B, simply plug in the wire to the other wall box, then run a jumper wire from wall box B to the satellite box. This method will give you the minimum attenuation of the signal. Whether it's one cable or two will depend on whether you have Sky or Sky+

Thanks, that sounds like a sensible solution.

[Chris Muriel]

Depends on how often you want to switch to one or the other.
Nick's solution could be modified/simplified by also using an A/B switch which switches an F-type input to one or the other output ; if you use one of these you need to make sure it is one that works to 2.1 GHz.
There are cable types around that are only rated to 850 MHz or 1 GHz (and are likely to be very lossy above that).

Chris Muriel, Manchester