Ecosse Sport
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I'm moving house shortly, currently our Sky connection is from a communal dish for our development of flats. As we're getting a house we'll obviously have to get our own dish.
I'm just wondering how it gets fitted. Does it join with coaxial cable and come out with the TV aerial? Also, will it need to be close to the telephone point?
Thanks in advance.
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Cosmo
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When they fitted ours they ran the sky wire down the outside of the house and drilled into the wall in the room it was going in. It doesnt use the coaxial socket or join the cable.
And yeah it needs to be nearish a telephone point during installation, but once its fitted you can take this out as only need it for ordering pay-per-view stuff.
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Ecosse Sport
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Thanks Cosmo, thats what I'd originally thought. I'm not too sure if I want the cable running down the side of the house.
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Cosmo
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As far as Im aware its the only way, unless your prepared to have it going in higher up and then running the cable inside the house.
Normally the dish will be on the side of the house, or if not by the corner, so any wires can be ran down and out of view.
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Ecosse Sport
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We're near the top of a hill so they'll probably put it about half way up wall.
I reckon if its put by the corner and the cables run down the back that'd be ok. Then I can always run the cable under the floor to the TV.
Thanks again.
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Cosmo
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Yeah, ours comes in under floor level, and then ran under the floorboards and up behind the TV.
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