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Are NTL wall boxes often connected to a house's satellite dish?

  • 21-08-2024 9:14pm
    #1
    BornSkippy
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭


    I'm trying to figure out the set-up in a house I moved into.

    There is a dish on the roof.

    The living room has only an old NTL wall box, with FM and TV F-type connections.

    2 rooms in an extension, Bedroom and Kitchen, have co-axial sockets.

    Would it have been normal back in the 2000s to run the satellite dish feed through the NTL wall box?



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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,586 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    NTL cable was limited to VHF/UHF cable in urban areas and MMDS in some rural areas.

    The actual house cable could be repurposed for a satellite feed but the NTL wall socket would probably block the satellite I.F. feed to the satellite receiver.

    If you pop off the cover on the NTL box you'll probably see a TV/FM radio splitter with the frequency range on the splitter.



  • #3
    BornSkippy
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭BornSkippy


    Cheers Cush.

    The Splitter displays input range of 5 -1000 Mhz and 5 - 82, 120 - 1000 Mhz ranges for the TV output.



  • #4
    The Cush
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122530197#Comment_122530197

    Standard universal, non-SkyQ LNBs send the signal to the receiver in the I.F. range 950-2200 MHz approx, so any signal above 1000 MHz will be blocked.



  • #5
    BornSkippy
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭BornSkippy


    Thanks for all the help.

    I'll have a look at running a connection down from the dish myself.



  • #6
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,586 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122532448#Comment_122532448

    Did that at my sister's place in Lucan maybe 10 years ago. Ran new cable instead of reusing the existing NTL cabling

    Post edited by The Cush on


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