topic Re: Rewiring house what should I do to future proof. in Sky Q

Rewiring house what should I do to future proof.

Mavmaz — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:04:39 GMT

Hi.

Im rewiring my house as part of renovations. I have sky q with mini boxes. So far in each room I have network cabling and a single coax. But I've just realised the main box has 2 cables from the dish. Do I get the electrician to run the double cable to a wall point in one room and dedicate that to the main box or can I somehow have the double cable go to a central point like the network cables and the distribute that out to multiple points. Or is there something better I should be doing considering sky q is relatively old technology. Thanks in advance.

Re: Rewiring house what should I do to future proof.

TimmyBGood — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:38:37 GMT

@Mavmaz

Sky Q was released in early 2016, so it's nearly nine years old. Realistically it's probably to be the last satellite television platform: satellite broadcasting to the UK is likely to cease around the end of this decade.

Coaxial cable is also approaching obsolescence: ethernet cable (Cat6) is far more useful.

Signal from a main Q box can potentially be redistributed: research HDbaseT technology.

Sky Stream is the online-only Sky television platform which permits multiple independent UHD output and works well on ethernet: the property would really require FTTP for more than a couple in simultaneous use.