RE: [OT] Sky+ using a single cable connection?

["Neil Ball" <neilball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon McCartney wrote:
> How tortuous is the current cable route?  Could you use the slack
> you've got to feed in the second cable or a pull-string?
>
> If you were really brave you could pull the cable back from the
> current sky box with string attached to pull the cable back together
> with the extra coax.
>
> I've only ever done this with CAT5 and telephone cable, it might be
> more "fun" with stiffer coax.  Don't you hate wooden floor
boards
> sometimes? :-)
>
> -simonm (E: simon@xxxxxxx W: +44 28 9072 5060 M: +44 7710 836915)
> The trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
> appreciates how difficult it was.


Chances of pulling through a new cable using the old one to draw it through
is slim & non, and it it separates while under the floor then the
original
cable is lost too :-(

I'd thought about re-siting the box in the attic and using the RF output
but
I then cannot hook up the optical DD output to my surround set up that is
under the TV.

I've checked out the Stacker/Destacker & that looks like the solution,
so
now I've just got to get Sky to agree to supply and install the Sky+ unit,
upgrade the LNB and connect the "old" Sky box to the bedroom
leaving me to
install the Stacker/Destacker when they've finished. At the moment they are
refusing to allow the install without the second run of cable to the main
Sky location but I'm sure I will wear them down in time!

Thanks to all who responded.

Neil B.