DStv Extra View Installation in Boksburg

Most Extra View jobs start the same way: two people in the house want two different things on at the same time, and one of them keeps losing. Around Boksburg the second screen goes into the main bedroom more often than anywhere else, then a study or home office, then a flatlet or garden room that somebody in the family is living in. Our DStv installers in Boksburg plan the second connection around how the house is actually laid out rather than around the shortest cable run.

The key piece of hardware is the LNB — the unit on the front of the dish that picks up the signal. A single-output LNB can only feed one decoder, so Extra View needs a twin or larger unit. Replacing just the LNB is far quicker and cheaper than replacing the dish, and while the ladder is up it is the right moment to check the mount and reseal the outdoor connectors, which is where most summer storm damage eventually shows up.

Each decoder needs its own cable back to the LNB. Splitting one existing cable is the shortcut that causes the most call-outs: it weakens the signal to both TVs, and the fault that follows looks exactly like a dish problem. So we run a proper second line — through the roof space where there is one, otherwise in conduit that follows an existing line of the building. For a long run to a separate structure we check the expected loss first and pick the route and equipment to suit.

If the existing TV point already misbehaves — freezing, pixelation or error messages — it is worth sorting that out before adding a second decoder, or you will simply have two screens with the same fault. Our DStv fault-finding service tracks down the cause first. Need more than two screens, or screens somewhere the public can see them? That is a business installation rather than Extra View.