Coax Freesat Signal - Multiple Rooms

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I need some guidance as to what can be done with my current setup.

1 satellite dish, 4 coax cables currently attached to it and coming into my server room. 2 of these cables are plugged into a freesat hd box. The other 2 are lying on the floor.

3 bedrooms - 2 coax cables in each room which feed back into the server room and sitting on the floor.

Now my wife wants to add a TV in each bedroom and have a freesat signal in each one. What do I need and how do I do it?

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p.s. total noob with this so please explain as simply as possible like "get item X, plug in cables a,b,c etc

 
If there are 4 cables from the dish already, surely that means it has a quad LNB so only the multiswitch is required, or am I missing something?
 
No, I wasn't missing that, AFAIK you can use a suitable multiswitch with a quad LNB or a quattro LNB. I was just trying to save the OP a few pennies and some work.
 
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russ9898 said:
Or you could just swap the lnb on the dish for an octo?
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I wouldn't be able to feed an additional 4 coax cables to the server room though - it's all already built in to the walls when we did the renovation.

The idea was that, since the other two bedrooms are empty and we rarely have more than 1 other room occupied, then we would use the remaining 2 coax cables to feed those rooms/tvs. Provided that we didn't have both rooms occupied at the same time and that both viewers didn't want to view different channels then it hopefully wouldn't be an issue.

Question is, how do we use those remaining 2 cables from the dish into the server room to feed a freesat signal to the other rooms?

We need to overcome a few things:

1. Do we buy TV's with freesat tuners built in?
2. Does the 2 free coax cables from the dish plug into this 'multi-switch'?
3. Does the free coax cables from the rooms also plug into the multi switch?

Not sure what the Quatro does? tried googling it and it's like Chinese to me
 
BlackBat said:
No, I wasn't missing that, AFAIK you can use a suitable multiswitch with a quad LNB or a quattro LNB. I was just trying to save the OP a few pennies and some work.
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I think you did used to be able to get multiswitches that worked with quad LNBs, but everything I can see readily available now that looks like a quality item needs a quattro.

With a multiswitch you feed the four polarities of satellite signal from your dish into the switch, and then you get 8, 12, 16, whatever outputs available to feed to satellite tuners around your house. It's like an aerial splitter but a bit more clever as it has to route signals, but effectively it can give you as many satellite feeds as you want.
 
Caged said:
With a multiswitch you feed the four polarities of satellite signal from your dish into the switch, and then you get 8, 12, 16, whatever outputs available to feed to satellite tuners around your house. It's like an aerial splitter but a bit more clever as it has to route signals, but effectively it can give you as many satellite feeds as you want.
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Is it the same feed to each receiver though or does it allow each receiver to watch whatever channel it wants?
 
In essence, you need two in the living room if you wish to watcha dn record.
One going to each bedroom will allow you to watch, they will need a receiving piece of equipment.
We did this in one room with a freesat box, and in another room with a TV that can decode freesat directly.

If you wish to turn 4 leads into 5 or more outputs, then you will need a switch. Of which I have no experience.
 
kaktus said:
Is it the same feed to each receiver though or does it allow each receiver to watch whatever channel it wants?
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Each receiver will be able to view whatever it wants, the multiswitch handles all the feeds from the dish and feeds everything down to your receiver as required.
 
Ok so just to be 100% clear, if I want different signals in each room I do the following:

1.Replace my Quad LNB with a Quatro LNB
2.Buy a Coax multi-switch
3.Plug all four feeds from the Quad LNB/Quatro LNB into the multi switch
4.Plug all six coax cables from the 3 rooms into the multi-switch
5.Plug a cable from the F-type connector wallplates in the rooms into a freesat receiver or a TV with a freesat receiver built in
6.Enjoy freesat in each room, watching a different channel and/or recording as desired?

I've made an updated diagram to make sure my understanding is correct

 
Yes. But if you can't find a multiswitch that works with a quad LNB then you'll need to replace the LNB.

Edit: Just search "multiswitch" on Amazon and like the first result supports quads. Guess the market has moved on since I last looked around. I'd buy one with 12 outputs because going off your diagram you're going to be at capacity with an 8 as soon as you install it.
 
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