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PostPosted: 20:16 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Is this Sky? Reply with quote

Sorting out internet at home and it's looking like the most economical way is to get some kind of TV/Broadband package, even though I don't really need any more telly.

As well as a standard co-ax aerial cable, I've also got this coming into the flat...........

https://i.imgur.com/S3xXTsQ.jpg

...........which is a remnant of a previous install.

It could potentially make life easier if it was specific to a known telly box provider, so does anyone know if it is, or is it just a generic thing common to most boxes?

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PostPosted: 20:18 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

It looks like my SKY cables, plug one into your tv and see if you get freesat.
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PostPosted: 20:39 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be cable, they look like my VM connection.
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PostPosted: 20:40 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

piazza wrote:
It looks like my SKY cables, plug one into your tv and see if you get freesat.


That won't work....

You'll need a freesat box to try it, but they are like a tenner on facebook or something.
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

im on Hyperoptic for broadband. only £18 a month for unlimited fibre optic.
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PostPosted: 22:11 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
piazza wrote:
It looks like my SKY cables, plug one into your tv and see if you get freesat.


That won't work....

You'll need a freesat box to try it, but they are like a tenner on facebook or something.


It works if you have the input on your tv, many do. I do.
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PostPosted: 23:28 - 28 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those are F type connectors, which are used for satellite inputs. Not specifically Sky, necessarily, just the input from a satellite dish into your satellite decoder. That might be a Sky box, a Freesat box or a satellite input on the back of your TV (my LG TVs have satellite inputs for Freesat). You really need to know where the other ends are connected - usually to a satellite dish LNB; the fact that are two implies it is a Sky feed though.
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PostPosted: 04:21 - 29 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Satellite or similar connectors. I think Telewest used them too. (Oh the halcyon days of yore.)

Not sure why two?

I had two on the LNB of my massive dish in the desert.
Cause the electrician next door shared my dish.
We aimed the big bastirt just right to get an English channel and an Arabic channel. The LNB was a double LNB. LNBs come in different styles and configuration for different systems. Sky, for example might offer extra features through their LNB or, knowing how those kunts behave, more restrictive through specific LNB.

I tore the dish off my wall and pulled all the fecking cables from the hoose that the previous owner had installed. I'm strictly Cooncil when it comes to TV.
Although I have service from a popular ISP shower of bastirts, I don't buy-into any of their TV packages horse-shite.
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PostPosted: 10:16 - 29 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

MCN wrote:
Satellite or similar connectors. I think Telewest used them too. (Oh the halcyon days of yore.)

Not sure why two?



Twin tuner LNB so that you can watch one programme and record another IIRC.
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PostPosted: 10:19 - 29 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup. Sky+ boxes have two inputs.
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PostPosted: 10:22 - 29 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pete. wrote:
Could be cable, they look like my VM connection.


Agree, here's my Virgin cables for comparison:

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/thumbs/t_76b38aea-a30c-49f1-a672-70e4727e6ca3.jpg
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 29 Jul 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

weasley wrote:
Those are F type connectors

Potentially used for any coax connection TBH, not just Virgin or Sky. Personally I use them on standard terrestrial TV cables too, if I need to join a cable for some reason - they make a much better connection that standard aerial plugs.
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