Hi there,
Just finished moving all my gear from "in front of the TV" - "to a rack in the opposite side of the room" as many people do. Have finished installing everything through various trunking/speaker wire/HDMI cables/Ethernet cable/etc etc.
Last part that needs moving is my satellite XBMC box, which is currently still sitting in the corner of the room behind front left speaker. Ideally want this moved near the rack which would mean needing another 15M of run from the satellite dish outside.
I would like recommendation on dual LNB cable to remove the crap that the Sky engineer installed a couple of years ago, was never happy with the quality anyway (the shielding in it is appalling as even just moving all the gear across the room as improved the SNR ratio substantially which is surely a sign of crap cable imo).
Anyways
Looking for recommendation on 20M of cable to take from the dish (so will need new connectors too I expect as if I'm replacing the cable anyway might as well get rid of the nasty Sky junk)
Must be dual LNB and obviously a few metres of it will be outside so needs to be suitable for outside. Saw Van Damme seem to offer some cable of this type but there's so much to chose from, hard to know what to go for and what fittings I'll need on the dish side - if any.
So, hope someone can help with a suggestion on what to get please
Dual LNB (or do Sky HD dishes have quad?)
Suitable for outside use from dish
Dish is standard mini dish provided for "Sky HD".
Connectors on dish?
Best SNR/picture quality (within reasonable cost/performance ratio)
Would be nice if termination at box end wasn't just a nasty copper wire that falls apart in the hand, like the sky stuff, and terminated into proper "screw" thing...although not sure how that would fit through wall so if that end was removable it would be helpful, but still fit securely once attacked)
Many thanks.
Just finished moving all my gear from "in front of the TV" - "to a rack in the opposite side of the room" as many people do. Have finished installing everything through various trunking/speaker wire/HDMI cables/Ethernet cable/etc etc.
Last part that needs moving is my satellite XBMC box, which is currently still sitting in the corner of the room behind front left speaker. Ideally want this moved near the rack which would mean needing another 15M of run from the satellite dish outside.
I would like recommendation on dual LNB cable to remove the crap that the Sky engineer installed a couple of years ago, was never happy with the quality anyway (the shielding in it is appalling as even just moving all the gear across the room as improved the SNR ratio substantially which is surely a sign of crap cable imo).
Anyways
Looking for recommendation on 20M of cable to take from the dish (so will need new connectors too I expect as if I'm replacing the cable anyway might as well get rid of the nasty Sky junk)
Must be dual LNB and obviously a few metres of it will be outside so needs to be suitable for outside. Saw Van Damme seem to offer some cable of this type but there's so much to chose from, hard to know what to go for and what fittings I'll need on the dish side - if any.
So, hope someone can help with a suggestion on what to get please
Dual LNB (or do Sky HD dishes have quad?)
Suitable for outside use from dish
Dish is standard mini dish provided for "Sky HD".
Connectors on dish?
Best SNR/picture quality (within reasonable cost/performance ratio)
Would be nice if termination at box end wasn't just a nasty copper wire that falls apart in the hand, like the sky stuff, and terminated into proper "screw" thing...although not sure how that would fit through wall so if that end was removable it would be helpful, but still fit securely once attacked)
Many thanks.
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