Sky dish on terrace house, with lounge at the front

[Keith35]

We're moving in to a new build terrace house. The sky dish has to go on the back of the house, but the lounge is at the front. Does this mean we have to have the cable run through the entire house!

[oldfella]

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@Keith35 wrote:

We're moving in to a new build terrace house. The sky dish has to go on the back of the house, but the lounge is at the front. Does this mean we have to have the cable run through the entire house!

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Hi @Keith35 

You will have to see what choices the installer has.   It may be necessary.

[Daniel0210]

@Keith35 

Have any new neighbours moved in and already have a dish - you could ask them? I presume you've checked with the developers that dishes are allowed. Some can be a bit anti dish. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Keith35 wrote:

The sky dish has to go on the back of the house

If that's a contractual obligation, it may be worth checking that it was understood the orbiting satellite cluster used by Sky (and Freesat) is in a very fixed location at 28.2E and cannot be relocated to suit such a dish arrangement.

Does this mean we have to have the cable run through the entire house!

There does have to be a coaxial cabled connection between the satellite dish and the main Q box, yes.  In rare cases subscribers have the main Q box as a concealed receiver and only use Q Mini boxes connected to television sets by HDMI and running over WiFi to the main Q box.

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[TimmyBGood]

@Keith35 

I'd add that for detached properties it's often possible for a dish to 'look around' the corner of the building, but on a terrace it's typically not possible to 'look over' a roofline as the Astra cluster is at a relatively low angle when pointed at from the UK and RoI.