help - cabling for multiple box distribution

[sky john]

electrician recently rewired my house got 4 coax wires into living room from under stairs into loft where there are rest of other coaxes from rest of rooms i want tv inalso feeds from dish will come in via here . I am led to beleive i can put a old sky box or 2 in there to supply kids room(s) with freeview with no set up costs ?. I have just purchased a 8 way distribution amp to place under the stairs to supply rest of rooms, sky plus in living room and maybe 1 bedroom i also purchased a magic eye for this purpose. what seemed simple (and probably is once you have done it) now poses questions. what feed will supply old sky box, can i have more than 1.Do i need to use the 4 wires in my living room. If you can understand this a simple diagram would help.
thank you

[penrhyn]

Welcome,

Freeview is terrestrial, Freesat from Sky comes via satellite.
Each Sky box has to be connected to your Sky dish with one or two (in the case of Sky+) coax feeds.
The LNB on your dish needs to be a quad or octal one depending on your requirements.
You can however distribute Sky via a distribution amplifier by using the RF2 output from your Sky box. If you want to use a magic eye system then the amp must have a DC passthrough.
Some diagrams are shown on the TV-Link site

tvLINK - The complete In-home Distribution Solution

Hope this helps.