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Jamie: thank you for your reply.
I am very certain the dish outside was installed for my fibre optic. Virgin media contractors came down years ago to install this when I ordered my connection. This was probably 5 odd years ago when fibre optic was first introduced to the UK. I have also checked outside my home and see that a cable connected to the dish is also wired into my room. My virgin modem was connect to this cable. It was never connected to my home phone line nor any other line from outside. I understand virgin media now goes through a BT line but at the time I got virgin fibre optic, it actually went through the dish they installed.
Never the less, my question is can I connect my sky box F5s (freesat type box) into this connection in my room (previously used for virgin fibre optic) to pick up signals to view channels? Or is this dish solely for fibre optic use only?
Can any dish be used to pick up any signals regardless if its for sky or freesat? If this is the case, my sky box F5s surely will be able to pick up signals with this dish right? Correct me if I am wrong.
Many thanks.
Dan
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The connection in my room looked almost identical to this picture below.
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It has the same connector heads and installed in the exact same way. It's connected to my dish outside of the house.
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Thanks for your feedback guys. I'm going to double check the wiring at the side of my house over the weekend to determine where the wires lead to. I shall keep you updated.
Thanks you for help thus far.
Dan
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Wednesday 2 July 2014 10:56PM
hi,
Please help...
I have a dish outside my house which was previously installed for my virgin fibre optic years ago. This is no longer in use as I have cancelled the connection but the wires are still attached to my room and the sky dish is still outside. Can I use this dish and connect my sky box to view channels? Would it pick up the signals for sky? It has the same connector head as my sky connector downstairs in the living room. The reason I asked this is because I do not want to bring the wires from downstairs to my room upstairs.