A complete novice to this so plse bear with me! My son wants to install Sky HD now and i want to install Freesat (Humax PVR) at a later date.

Questions: 1) What does a Sky installation involve apart from the obvious of attaching the dish to a wall and routing cable from dish to a socket on an inside wall with the drilling of a hole through the ouside wall to a socket plate. I gather that Sky has to be linked to a phone point. How is this done and if phone point is on G Floor and Sky input is on 1st floor how do they connect phone to Sky box? If they have to install cable can it be done from phone point in outside of house? As you will gather I'm paranoid about having the house look like a piece of gruyere cheese 2) Spoke to a chap in local store (Hispek) who said that I would need extra LNB (?). Would the Sky installer be able to do this for a drink or two or do I need to get an installer round when I eventually get the Humax box in the New Year?

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3) When I get the Humax box is it just a case of running cable from the sat dish to the Humax box? Should I get the Sky installer to attach cable to dish and then leave it until I'm ready to connect it to Humax box? Sorry for being naive and I have tried a search but I'm more stoopid that the rest of you cos I can't find any answers [/I]. Dish, coax cable into house through hole/s drilled in wall, cable run straight to set-top box (no socket plate is fitted). If you do not have a phone point anywhere near where the HD box will be installed (sounds not), then the installer will simply staple phone cable to you skirting, all the way back to your nearest phone point, then plug it in via a socket splitter.

I'm afraid that this is as far as it goes for the standard Sky installation. Sky don't pay a great deal for the install and the people who do the work are often interested more in quantity rather than quality. Sky do specify minimum standards for the work, but often the finer details of these are ignored (such as the use of rubber grommets for cable entry points, 'roman noses' for brick bursts, etc.). For a Sky HD install the installer will most likely fit a quad LNB (the receiver box on the satellite dish). As this has four cable connections, you should be fine for Freesat. The Sky chappy will not fit you any extra cable to this dish though.

It sounds like for your purposes you would be better off booking a local aerial/satellite installer to do the job for you. This would give you complete control over what is done and would leave you fully prepared for when you go for Freesat. Note that there is no requirement to book Sky installs through them directly.

There are plenty of private installers out there who will do the job for the cost of materials plus labour. Dish, coax cable into house through hole/s drilled in wall, cable run straight to set-top box (no socket plate is fitted). If you do not have a phone point anywhere near where the HD box will be installed (sounds not), then the installer will simply staple phone cable to you skirting, all the way back to your nearest phone point, then plug it in via a socket splitter. I'm afraid that this is as far as it goes for the standard Sky installation. Sky don't pay a great deal for the install and the people who do the work are often interested more in quantity rather than quality. Sky do specify minimum standards for the work, but often the finer details of these are ignored (such as the use of rubber grommets for cable entry points, 'roman noses' for brick bursts, etc.).

For a Sky HD install the installer will most likely fit a quad LNB (the receiver box on the satellite dish). As this has four cable connections, you should be fine for Freesat. The Sky chappy will not fit you any extra cable to this dish though. It sounds like for your purposes you would be better off booking a local aerial/satellite installer to do the job for you. This would give you complete control over what is done and would leave you fully prepared for when you go for Freesat. Note that there is no requirement to book Sky installs through them directly.

There are plenty of private installers out there who will do the job for the cost of materials plus labour. Click to expand.Thanks for all that Junky. Quite a few useful tips there although I'm puzzled as to why they don't install a wall socket and insist on running the cable straight to the box.

What happens if you want to move the furniture round? And in my case, due to sliding mirror wardrobes, there is no skirting board to pin the cable to! Is there anything to prevent me cutting the cable at some time in the future and putting a socket on the wall to try to tidy the thing up a bit? As for the phone cable, the installer can forget about stapling cable across half my house.

I'll go with Fredsie's suggestion of buying a 20m phone cable that the installer can run from upstairs to the phone point downstairs. Obviously I'm not ging to have this dangling around the house for the nest 12months (can you imagine SWMBO's comments she's bad enough if I leave yesterday's paper lying around) - although it might be useful for the next couple of weeks to hang the Xmas cards from! Hs2 0 Utility Format Zip Drive here. I am indeed a new customer so what would be the worst that they could do if they checked the phone line and it's disconnected?

Who's paying who here after all!! Thanks again for all the advice. Fitting wall plates can cause reception problems by introducing reflection points for the signals in the cabling and in fly leads to the digibox, so to avoid having to sort out this sort of problem Sky do not allow their own installers to use them. It is far more preferable for a neat job to fit a blank wallplate with holes drilled through it and rubber grommets for the cable to pass through, this will not introduce any problems. Remember satellite signals in the cabling are at frequencies up to 2 GHz and can easily suffer problems at connections, kinks or pinch points in the cabling.

Fitting wall plates can cause reception problems by introducing reflection points for the signals in the cabling and in fly leads to the digibox, so to avoid having to sort out this sort of problem Sky do not allow their own installers to use them. It is far more preferable for a neat job to fit a blank wallplate with holes drilled through it and rubber grommets for the cable to pass through, this will not introduce any problems. Remember satellite signals in the cabling are at frequencies up to 2 GHz and can easily suffer problems at connections, kinks or pinch points in the cabling.

Click to expand.Thanks Dave. Note what you say and it would seem that as the installation will be in a room with only one outside wall and with the TV opposite the outside wall, I'll have no option other than to let the installer run the cable through the wall and round skirting board across to the TV. Don't think that I'll bother with the wall plate as this was more to be able to disconnect when decorating etc. I assume that they just plug the hole with mastic after threading the cable through?