No ariel in bedroom - Solutions?

[The Boosh!]

Hello

I'm renting a property at the minute, and I've copped for the room which does not have an ariel port. If it wasn't a fortune and the landlord agreed I'd have one installed, but initial quotes are £150 and the landlord won't let me.

I could pay £60 + £10 a month to have the sky in my room, as apparently you only need a phone socket, which I have.

What are my other options? I do t want to be buying one of these £10 portable ariel things because they never get signal.

Does anyone know of a decent solution?

TIA

 

[chrisazzy]

I'm guessing you have an attic above the bedroom?

what about buying an aerial from maplin's or electrical store & fixing it in the attic then drop a cable down into the room.

 

[The Boosh!]

I'm guessing you have an attic above the bedroom?

what about buying an aerial from maplin's or electrical store & fixing it in the attic then drop a cable down into the room.

No it's a 3 story town house there's another bedroom above me. I also wouldn't want to start drilling through floors etc and I wouldn't want to run the wire down the stairs as it would look a state.

 

[jam.]

A couple of years back I used a plug-in ariel booster and a standalone ariel that also had a booster thing built in - one of the flat, A4 sized ones.

It worked fine. So long as I never, ever moved.


I'd just get multiroom if I was that bothered tbh.

 

[chrisazzy]

3 story house sucks. I don't know of any other ways sorry apart from running the cable on the outside.

 

[The Boosh!]

I'd just get multiroom if I was that bothered tbh.

I don't really want to be paying £200 for the year to watch bbc3 in bed in the evening, but I do know what you're saying.

 

[geordieracer]

Tbf, get the sky, as i presume you may already be paying towards the subscription anyway?

£10 a month isnt bad at all x

 

[The Boosh!]

Tbf, get the sky, as i presume you may already be paying towards the subscription anyway?

£10 a month isnt bad at all x

Our sky ATM is ~£90 p/m as we have pretty much everything TV wise. It's the £60 installation and the £10 extra a month that's putting me off. I'm only gonna be here a year or two so its not major but i would rather put that money toward a holiday.

Seems there's not really an easy solution, as I originally thought.

Nvm!

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Have you got internet and a spare pc? if so look at XBMC

In fact you can even run it on a 'raspberry pi' they only cost £35

 

[geordieracer]

Tbf, £10 a month is nothing.

£2.50 a week. You can save that by just walking a few short journeys instead of driving.

Nothing is free, and you would need a digital aerial now too if you tried one in the room.

 

[richy22]

Your certain there isnt an aerial point in that bedroom??

Usually when they build a new house every bedroom/lounge/kitchen has an aerial point put in. Or I suppose its possible they only ran 4 points but the norm is about 6 in a 3 storey townhouse.

 

[The Boosh!]

Your certain there isnt an aerial point in that bedroom??

Usually when they build a new house every bedroom/lounge/kitchen has an aerial point put in. Or I suppose its possible they only ran 4 points but the norm is about 6 in a 3 storey townhouse.

You're making me doubt now lol. Ill double check!

 

[richy22]

Most townhouses I used to install on were setout like this...(aerial points in brackets)

Ground floor...kitchen/dining room/toilet (one point possibly2)
Second floor....Bedroom/bathroom/upstairs lounge (2 points)
Top floor...Bedroom with ensuite/bedroom (2 points)

 

[jam.]

How about TV Catchup? If you've got an Apple TV or iPhone/iPad you can just stream it to the TV without needing to faff about.

If no Apple TV, just hook your laptop/pc upto your tv

 

[sbridgey]

What about a really long coax to another room?

 

[geordieracer]

I dont think he wants to do that for aesthetics.

Does work though, ne and old housemate ran one from living room then splitter. Worked a treat.

 

[Tom]

Got a window?

Splitter and this;

http://cdtronix.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=298

 

[Adam.]

Run a length of cable and put it under the carpet?

 

[The Boosh!]

How about TV Catchup? If you've got an Apple TV or iPhone/iPad you can just stream it to the TV without needing to faff about.

If no Apple TV, just hook your laptop/pc upto your tv

Yeh but our broadband is only 6 mb and it's not great at streaming tbh. I do use my ps3 for this but i have to leave it to buffer a little bit!

Got a window?

Splitter and this;

http://cdtronix.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=298

That looks alright, will this involve me having to climb up onto the roof then. I need to look at what a splitter is.

 

[Tom]

Up to you, just get 2 and run cable to the nearest coax point, downstairs would probably be safer.

Easy peasy. But not the most elegant solution.

 

[DB.]

I'd go for the £10 a month option, no hassle and a great range of channels.

 

[Ben182]

surely you need a satellite point for multiroom? (and a phone socket). If the landlord won't let you put an aerial in, i doubt he'd be too chuffed at you having a sky "engineer" installing satellite cables into the room.

I think I'd try a portable aerial first and see how it works, you can always take it back for a refund.

 

[seb]

I can use tv catch up on my 1.5 mb connection with little to no buffering so would expect your 6mb line would be ok?

 

[paddymph]

I've got 1mb broadband and tv catchup works perfect too? Your 6meg connection should do it easy.

 

[geordieracer]

Ive used tv catchup on my 3g on my phone before, so a proper connection should cope.

 

[The Boosh!]

I don't think speed is the issue tbh I think it's more my PS3 location in relation to my router.

 

[Alex_225]

We opted for a Freeview HD box and a powered aerial which seems to work quite well.

The aerial is actually just a black square panel rather than the usual big long telescopic things you can get or the white ring types. Does quite nicely for a bit of TV in the bedroom anyway.

 

[iain187]

My missus ain't got a socket and uses this thing. It's fine for freeview

 

[boyced]

buy a slingbox