How to wire a satellite dish for Sky multi-room?

[Jezinio]

Hi

Hope someone can help.

At the moment I have Sky multi-room with my dish feeding an HD box and also an old style Sky box.

I am wanting to replace the old box with a second HD box located elsewhere in the house. Would I be able to simply remove the current connections from the old box at the dish and connect a new cable to go to my new HD box?

Also, the cable run to the new box would be quite lengthy is this likely to cause problems?

And, would I need a new viewing card for the new HD box?

Many thanks

 

[Mickha]

You should be able to use your existing cable, or run another cable, as your dish probably has a quad LNB, 4 outputs, for four connections.
You should be able get Sky to match your existing multi room card to your new receiver.
Personally I don't have Sky, so can't confirm the ease of changing the cards entitlements, but it should be easy, especially given the number of old Sky boxes that failed and needed replacing.

 

[Analoguesat]

Connect the new box up and ring sky to get the card paired.

Dead simple

When we went over to Sky+ I did it all via email on the Mysky site as I wasnt going to waste my time and money ringing them!

 

[Jezinio]

Much appreciated - especially the tip about not ringing Sky!!!

 

[Jezinio]

Advice has been greatly received so far but could anyone tell me where I can get instructions about wiring the actual Sky dish. Do I have to take the dish down or can I do it in situ. The last thing I want to do is mess up the dish alignment.
At the moment there seem to be four wires running into the dish connector box. I need to remove the two from the old box and add my two new cables.

Many thanks

 

[rolfw]

Can all be done with the dish in situ,just be careful that you don't move it when undoing the old and re-attaching the new cables.