[rhyds]

Compared to many people's problems on here, this might seem small, but it has made me apoplectic with rage.

My aunt (who is an older lady), has sky multiroom, and asked me to come over as the second box (an ancient Amstrad unit) had stopped working.

What I found when I got there was positively shocking. It seems that when the multiroom was installed, the sky "installer" decided rather than running a cable from the dish to the upstairs bedroom (it's a small house and the dish isn't overly far from the bedroom window) he decided to run a cable in to my aunt's living room, then splice in to some 30+ year old, thin as wet string, unshielded coax cable that was left over from the previous aerial installation.

He's even used bloody aerial plugs rather than F connectors to bodge the cable together, and he's then stuck a short length of proper shielded coax on the other end to try and hide what he's done.