Sat ip LNB

Don't know if that's possible, but you can get sat-ip boxes, I have been toying with the idea of getting myself one.

The boxes have 4 inputs, horizontal high/low vertical high/low that would then allow you to distribute the signal all around your house via ethernet.
 
I'd rather go with a fibre optic LNB and receiver, (single satellite) you could run the fibre for Kilometres if you had power at the dish.

And they are available now.

And a LAN connection would not have the bandwidth to run the 900 MHz to 1.4 GHz LO signals down from the LNB.
 
Terryl said:
I'd rather go with a fibre optic LNB and receiver, (single satellite) you could run the fibre for Kilometres if you had power at the dish.

And they are available now.

And a LAN connection would not have the bandwidth to run the 900 MHz to 1.4 GHz LO signals down from the LNB.
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That bandwidth is not needed as the lnb has 8 inbuilt tuners so only 8 channels (transponders?) streamed at a time.
 
I read that the product was launched in 2003 there wasn't a big demand for the ip LNB, hence the reason why not available to purchase. However, with the ever increasing Ethernet enabled devices around the home, I am sure that there would be a big demand in today's market...
 
davemurgtroyd said:
That bandwidth is not needed as the lnb has 8 inbuilt tuners so only 8 channels (transponders?) streamed at a time.
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The bandwidth I'm talking about is for the LO signal from a standard LNB, that can be from 900 MHz to 1.4 GHz depending on the transponder selected, this for a standard LNB.

For that SAT-IP antenna it looks like it only sends signals to WIFI enabled devices like HDTV's with WIFI services and mobile devices like an Ipad or Cell phone.

And with only 8 channels to view on one device it would get a bit boring.

What would be a better product would be one that was fully tunable over all available satellite transponders (on the selected satellite) and would run via WIFI at 5 GHz into a set top box or other WIFI enabled device, it would need full channel capability. Thus no LAN cable would be needed just power for the antenna.

My internet is supplied via a 5 GHz RF link to the ISP, the antenna has the modem built into it, a single LAN cable runs up to it, this supply's DC power and the ISP connection, I get 5 MBPS both ways.

A similar setup could be used for satellite service, use a full range receiver built into the antenna (like the one mentioned) then WIFI it down to the house, all you would need is power up to the antenna.
 
Terryl said:
The bandwidth I'm talking about is for the LO signal from a standard LNB, that can be from 900 MHz to 1.4 GHz depending on the transponder selected, this for a standard LNB.

For that SAT-IP antenna it looks like it only sends signals to WIFI enabled devices like HDTV's with WIFI services and mobile devices like an Ipad or Cell phone.
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As I understand it the 8 tuners are tuned by the bidirectional WiFi/Ethernet connection.

There are Sat>IP capable receivers on the market
 
At one channel per tuner, that would work to send a single channel (total of up to 8) down a CAT6 cable.

What I was envisioning was the total number of channels available on one satellite, with up to 32 possible transponder and up to 20 channels (depending on if they are HD or SD) per transponder, you looking at a standard FTA type receiver function in one LNB and sending all available information down a LAN or WIFI connection.

Currently not possible with available hardware.

Only thing right now capable to do this is the fiber optic LNB.
 
I think you'll find that the capability is to serve several different receiving devices with anything which is on the satellite, It doesn't work like an LNB and send the whole band to the recever, it'll work like a single cable router for Sky Q, each tuner will select the requested frequency and polarity and send the multiplex to the device.
 
Terryl said:
At one channel per tuner, that would work to send a single channel (total of up to 8) down a CAT6 cable.

What I was envisioning was the total number of channels available on one satellite, with up to 32 possible transponder and up to 20 channels (depending on if they are HD or SD) per transponder, you looking at a standard FTA type receiver function in one LNB and sending all available information down a LAN or WIFI connection.

Currently not possible with available hardware.

Only thing right now capable to do this is the fiber optic LNB.
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I know it's been quite a while since the last post on this thread but wanted to put a solution out there for anyone who is interested.

An option I have come across would be to use a Quatro LNB and feed this into a card such as the TBS6909 with a built-in multi-switch. This setup gives you the same VL, HL, VH, and HH outputs you get from the optical LNB setup. I know it's not a networked solution but unfortunately, I can't find a PoE LNB that does this.

It would be nice if there was a unicable-type solution that could be implemented over Cat6 but I don't think that'll happen any time soon, unfortunately.
 
You probably mean tbs6909x?

You could also use an optical lnb and a converter to bring 4 full bands into the house
and then do whatever you want with them. E.g. attach multiswitches or passive splitters.
It is expensive and need power at the lnb side. So that is extra cables. On the plus side, you can
split the cable and thus feed the signal wherever you want (e.g., in a hotel)

_Optical converter to RF Quattro Circular
 
I bought one of these SAT > IP things and I've used it like once, it's a right faff to use. If length really is the reason you should go optical.

SAT>IP Server 3 - Megasat

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