Satellite socket in flat - single feed with splitter

Right, got the keys to the flat today and remembered to take a photo of the splitter thing:

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I'm guessing it's not going to actually achieve much?
 
I saw it when it was appearing last night. It was a standard co-axial splitter, 5-2400mhz. Not a destacker.

Are you 100% that the cable is coming from the dish and not something like Virgin? the cable looked different to how Sky would terminate.
 
I found out the hard way with those splitters. By hard I mean I wired everything up and cable tidied it all before testing the signal. Doh
 
Kol said:
Are you 100% that the cable is coming from the dish and not something like Virgin? the cable looked different to how Sky would terminate.
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If it's in a block of flats then chances are that it is not a standard domestic Sky install, so the cable wont be finished withbscrew on connectors. This is because a multi-dweller building will use a different standard of gear (quatro LNB and a multi-switch) plus earth bonded distribution electronics and probably a tapped distribution system with slope control.
 
Okay, so I moved in today and got my new TV and the Sky box set-up earlier this evening. I've connected two cables from the splitter to the box, and then checked the settings and it showed only one feed had a signal. However, I turned it on again just now and it was still letting me watch one channel while it was recording another, despite still showing only one feed as having a signal lock.

Is there a way to find out which channels I'll be able to watch/record (or rather, record/record) at the same time using this splitter thing?
 
Try some of the channel groups shown on the Lyngsat site here

The reason your box is working is it thinks it is still in dual input mode. Input 1 is the main input. The box switches to input 2 if another channel is required. As long as that channel is in the same group then there's no need for the box to change the LNB setting so you will get to watch one and record another.
 
When I lived in my apartment the floors had 6 apartments on them but there were 8 sockets on each floor in the riser cabinet. I paid someone to come in and connect me another up to enable full Sky+, might be worth inquiring so long as there are some spare.
 
I recently moved into a new apartment which had recently had the satellite infrastructure upgraded to allow 2 feeds into the Sky box with only a single feed from the wall socket.

I was in contact with the people who did the upgrade and the company's technical manager responded with this (as I was also curious of how it could work):

The Sky upgrade converted the existing multi-switch communal system to what is referred to as Single Cable System.

The SCS device requires to be connected to Sky receiver with SCS capability.

This is a software development where the Sky receiver sends commands to the SCS to request your specific channels.

The SCS delivers all signals in a narrow band that the Sky receiver is set to. Very different from delivering the entire band to the Sky receiver.

The splitter is a "smart" device and allows a second Sky receiver or a second port on a Sky+ receiver to be connected. Each port receives a different SCS channel.

If you are into the tech detail, try searching the web for Unicable or SCR , this is a European Standard for this technology and is now about 7 years old.
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Hope this helps :)
 
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