Hi folks

Had Sky Digital in 2 locations in home - and 2 mysky boxes. The feed appeared to come from the dish, into a splitter in the loftspace and then out to the other two boxes.


Post renovations and moving walls, the new location for one of the boxes is in another room so I ran a long length of Rg6 cable that a friend donated - probably around 12 to 14 metres.  

Just prior to decorating I connected up both ends of the cable ( assuming my crimping and connections are fairly okay ) and plugged in the box to the new location.

Signal light on box was red and it came up saying updating listings then " Atmospheric Conditions affecting it etc ".

I remade the connections, rechecked the splitter connections and tried again. Same issue.

Now thinking it might be the cable ?

On it, is says Belden 1829A-C    3GHZ/ 75 OHm  RG6   Duo Sky Sattellite

Just called him and it appears the cable is around 6+ years old...

Should that cable work or is it something else that might be the issue.  Next step if I can't resolve it is to get the sky engineer in. 

Thanks for any help. If its a case of swapping out the cable and remaking the ends then I can do that much.

Thanks