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Cable split Question



 
 
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Old March 11th 11, 09:34 AM
keithy397 keithy397 is offline
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Hi,

I recently moved and in my previous place I had a sat dish supplying 3 feeds:-
1 x Sky+ box and 1 X basic box in my bedroom (with Multiroom Lite subscription).

In my new place, dishes are not allowed but I have a box in my sitting room with 2 Sky feeds (+ ordinary TV and FM feed) which is fine for my Sky+ but no good for my other box. I bought an FBS402 Labgear 2 way splitter thinking this would solve the problem if I was only using 1 of the 2 split feeds at a time. At first it seemed to work, I checked the bedroom - great signal. I switched off the Sky box in the bedroom and watched and recorded on my Sky+ box and that worked too so I thought great! It works!

Last night however I got a 'No signal received' warning and the only way to solve it was to take off the splitter and return it to the normal set-up.

My question is, should it work with a splitter or am I doing something wrong?
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Old September 14th 11, 08:38 AM
keithy397 keithy397 is offline
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Originally Posted by Tradeworks View Post
No you cannot split a satellite cable. you only recieve a quarter of the total signal down the cable at any one time, the sat box request which quarter it requires. The LNB or multiswitch then send sdown only that quarter of signals. if you have 2 boxes connected wanting different signals then problems occur.
Thanks for your response but since I posted this in March the situation has been resolved. There were 2 spare connections on the massive LNB thingamajig and after some coercion (grovelling) I managed to acquire them.
 




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