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    Default Help with borrowing foxtel multi room box for satellite.

    I have a satellite dish set up and aligned. Will it work to borrow a foxtel box off my mum who has foxtel multi room, and just plugging it into the satellite? I don't know much about this stuff so please help. And also, after I use it on the satellite, will I be able to plug it back into normal foxtel and will it work or does using it on satellite ruin or change any settings??



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    Quote Originally Posted by joludaggs View Post
    I have a satellite dish set up and aligned. Will it work to borrow a foxtel box off my mum who has foxtel multi room, and just plugging it into the satellite? I don't know much about this stuff so please help. And also, after I use it on the satellite, will I be able to plug it back into normal foxtel and will it work or does using it on satellite ruin or change any settings??

    G'Day Cobber,
    That sounds like mum has a cable installation.
    If so, they are not interchangeable.

    Kindest Regards, " The Druid ".



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    If it's a Foxtel satellite decoder (not cable) and you have the same local oscillator frequency on your dish LNB, (10700) then it should work just plugging it in.

    If it's Foxtel iQ/iQ2/iQHD you will need a dual LNB with two cables connected.

    You will be able to just connect it back up at your mum's place afterwards and it will work.

    As mentioned, you cannot use a cable Foxtel box on satellite and vice versa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beer4life View Post
    G'Day Cobber,
    That sounds like mum has a cable installation.
    If so, they are not interchangeable.

    Kindest Regards, " The Druid ".
    How did you come to that conclusion ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanity View Post
    How did you come to that conclusion ?


    You do need to read between the lines.

    after I use it on the satellite, will I be able to plug it back into normal foxtel


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    I thought the same thing.

    The OP's reference to 'satellite' and 'normal' Foxtel was what made me wonder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beer4life View Post
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    You do need to read between the lines.




    Well spotted, i was thinking the same as sanity.

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