3 Boxes into 1 Dish?

[bitsflogger123]

Hi, new guy here, not much idea!

I have a sky mini dish fitted on the wall, and want to use it to receive free sat into 3 rooms in my house. Anyone give me an idea how to wire this up, and what I need to do the job? I know I will need 3 set top boxes, but have no idea how to wire them all up to the dish.

Any ideas greatly appreciated ,cheers!

[nvingo]

Simply replace the existing single-output LNB on the dish arm with a quad (four-outputs) LNB.
Then run your additional coax cables to the receivers in the other rooms, and to the sockets on the new LNB.

[Robbo]

Hi,

Very easily. You need a quad LNB if you haven't got one already

(search ebay for "Sky quad LNB"), make sure you get one that comes with a legacy adapter, as the dish styles have changed recently.

Then run a new cable to each location from one of the 4 outputs of the quad. You will be left with one spare output, as you have only 3 receivers.

For cable, use wf100 or eqivalent, again, a reel can be bought on ebay.

[kerrywez]

Hi nvingohas advised you well, but if you or whoever had the dish installed had Sly + then there will be a quad LNB on the dish. If you are buying a new LNB do make sure it is one for a Sly dish, proper LNBs will not fit straight on to the arm on a Sly dish and when you have fitted the LNB be sure to adjust the dish, tilt it back at the top, because the weight of the quad will pull the dish forward and you will loss your picture at worst and at best you will have a very bad signal and in rain you will loss you picture.

Regards Wez