Ordered freesat card for Ireland

sharkman · 23-11-2004 2:04pm

daveg wrote:

If anyone is ordering cards from the UK and has any spare please PM me. I'll pay you handsomely for FTV cards.

Me too , anyone willing to put an extra card on their order , please contact me .

Thanks ...

Rizzo the Rat · 23-11-2004 2:30pm

legend99 you activate it by putting in your sky box in Ireland.

legend99 · 23-11-2004 2:42pm

thanks Rizzo. Must get on the case to London so

intersplat · 24-11-2004 3:24pm

The freesat card I odrered from skycards.net was already activated . They say they activate all cards before they send out . Anyway I didn't need to do anything only reboot the box and all were working . Have ordered another for bedroom ... I'm a sucker

sharkman · 24-11-2004 3:38pm

intersplat wrote:

The freesat card I odrered from skycards.net was already activated . They say they activate all cards before they send out . Anyway I didn't need to do anything only reboot the box and all were working . Have ordered another for bedroom ... I'm a sucker

Dont suppose you would add one for me to your order ??

toonarmy · 24-11-2004 3:48pm

Colm80 wrote:

I ordered a card from them guys 2 weeks ago. Still waiting. Lost count how many times ive emailed them regarding the card. If i dont receive it by friday i will tell them to stick it where the sun dont shine.

ordered mine with the fast post option ...yesterday , just got emailed said its on the way ....

eigrod · 24-11-2004 4:04pm

I ordered on a Friday and had it on the following Tuesday. Worked fine, just took about 1 minute to sort itself out after putting it in, then all was well and I've been swapping cards frequently since....no probs.

Ozzie · 24-11-2004 4:51pm

I ordered one through a friend in Liverpool. Sounds good. I tried the phone number stated earlier but seemed to get a wrong no. Got a different 0870 no. from the freesat website. Rang it. got through to the familiar Scottish Sky girl. As stated earlier, all she wanted was my name, the postcode and a phone no. (gave friend's UK no.). She checked postcode, confirming name of street and I paid with my Irish credit card. Very sraightforward. Hopefully I'll have card late next week so I'll keep ye informed.

Aquos76 · 24-11-2004 5:15pm

Out of interest what is the total charge for ordering a card from Sky Cards.net

Colm80 · 24-11-2004 5:25pm

It works out at €28.66 for card and €71.65 for Uk address A bit Expensive but when you dont know any body in the uk its not bad.

Aquos76 · 24-11-2004 6:38pm

Colm80 wrote:

It works out at €28.66 for card and €71.65 for Uk address A bit Expensive but when you dont know any body in the uk its not bad.

I am close to sorting out a deal for all members of Boards.ie(that is those who do not have access to a UK address) that will enable them to get one of these cards for the price that that other website charge for the uk address. Once I have the all the details finalised I will post the revelant information.

@ Damo
If you feel I am breaking any rules here I apolgise in advance.Its just I feel that the current price that is been spoken about here is a little steep.

DMC · 24-11-2004 8:43pm

Sorry Leonard.... because of the minefield that this could get us into, I will have to say "no" to this. As we know, FTV cards are meant to go only to UK licence holders, so what yer man is doing aint exactly kosher.

What we do here is alert to people that FTV cards are there, they can be got, and on your head be it if you want to get one.

Aquos76 · 24-11-2004 10:37pm

DMC wrote:

Sorry Leonard.... because of the minefield that this could get us into, I will have to say "no" to this. As we know, FTV cards are meant to go only to UK licence holders, so what yer man is doing aint exactly kosher.

What we do here is alert to people that FTV cards are there, they can be got, and on your head be it if you want to get one.

No problem Damo. Sorry I didn't pm you first. I totally understand where you are coming from though.

DMC · 24-11-2004 10:55pm

Thanks squire... and I'm happy that you posted this up first, as it gives me and the mods a chance to advise where we stand to all.

Discussion of FTV cards is fine, no worries. But the last thing we need here in ICDG and in Satellite in particular, is a load of "get me one, get me one, get me one" threads. The info can be here, everyone can read it, but you go off and get it under yer own steam.

Boards.ie has a For Sale section, with stated rules as to how to conduct a trade. I would advise anyone to use this facility if one wants to. But not here.

Bottom line.... Discussion; Yes. Trading; No.

Tony · 25-11-2004 1:31am

DMC wrote:

Bottom line.... Discussion; Yes. Trading; No.

Damn

Pal · 25-11-2004 9:02am

get me one, get me one !

DMC · 25-11-2004 10:26am

Careful now!

Macy · 25-11-2004 10:58am

Down with this sort of thing....

toonarmy · 25-11-2004 12:06pm

mine came this morn ....will check her out at lunch

all's well ,worked straight away...

Colm80 · 25-11-2004 1:42pm

Same here arrived
101 BBC ONE East
102 BBC TWO England
103 ITV1 Anglia
104 Channel 4
105 Five
118 ITV 2
would of prefaired London versions on the epg . But that was always going to happen. But now im a happy camper.

huh! · 25-11-2004 3:31pm

BBc London is on 944 , tv london 963 and ch4 is 964

Colm80 · 25-11-2004 3:36pm

Thanks huh! i did not notice that. Thats great.

mayoman1976 · 25-11-2004 8:05pm

hi guys
i would love to know how do you all get hold of these cards??

DMC · 25-11-2004 8:35pm

Page 1 of this thead has most of the info, mayoman1976.

Macy · 26-11-2004 10:40am

I've looked on all the threads and there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer.... Do you have to get the new cards activated or are they already activated?

Colm80 · 26-11-2004 11:32am

Mine came activated and got a letter that said so,
So yes to your Question

Macy · 26-11-2004 11:39am

Colm80 wrote:

Mine came activated and got a letter that said so,
So yes to your Question

Sorry Colm, is that direct from sky or from the company? Getting mine through a mate in England rather though a company. (I probably should've been clearer!)

PoolDude · 26-11-2004 12:42pm

Similar to Macy, I've ordered thru a family member direct from SKY. Interested to understand what I will need to do when I get it. Thx.

Colm80 · 26-11-2004 1:18pm

Macy wrote:

Sorry Colm, is that direct from sky or from the company? Getting mine through a mate in England rather though a company. (I probably should've been clearer!)

Macy im not to sure about that. I would think if it was not switched on it would be only a phone call to sky to sort it out. If you do have to ring hide your phone number so sky dont know where you are ringing from. I know for a fact the card is not married to the sky box other wise i would not be able to get the channels im getting. If your friend in the UK has a sky box get him to ring sky and get it switched on. I would think its only card number they want.

Macy · 26-11-2004 1:28pm

Colm80 wrote:

Macy im not to sure about that. I would think if it was not switched on it would be only a phone call to sky to sort it out. If you do have to ring hide your phone number so sky dont know where you are ringing from. I know for a fact the card is not married to the sky box other wish i would not be able to get the channels im getting. If your friend in the uk has a sky box get him to ring sky and get it switched on. I would think its only card number they want.

Cheers, that's what I was asking. No problem me phoning and hiding the number, just wondered whether it was necessary and what they were looking for when you did phone up.

Colm80 · 26-11-2004 1:32pm

No probs. I have 2 Sky boxs and card works fine in both. So that tells you all.

lukedavy · 26-11-2004 1:42pm

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lukedavy · 26-11-2004 1:56pm

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26-11-2004 2:13pm

Ok Luke I've edited your post completely as it constituted advertising.

If people want information on your route to FTV cards, they can pm you, but please leave the specefics off this thread.

DMC isn't the only Gun in town

( thread stays open for now )

lukedavy · 26-11-2004 2:46pm

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PoolDude · 26-11-2004 2:59pm

Macy wrote:

Cheers, that's what I was asking. No problem me phoning and hiding the number, just wondered whether it was necessary and what they were looking for when you did phone up.

Macy, Let me know how you get on as you seem to have ordered from SKY before me and will probably receive them before me. I'll be interested to know what you have to do, Thx.

Aquos76 · 26-11-2004 9:28pm

If the cards are coming direct from Sky, they WILL need to be activated once you receive the card. As I understand the company that colm purchased from, get the card activated before they send it out.

Hope this clarifies it for you

Jimmyireland · 27-11-2004 3:40pm

I have one of these cards and a spare digibox. What I would like to know is, whether I can set up the two boxes in my living room, and operate the two of them,using the one coax cable, without having to change the lead at the back of the box..?

muffler · 29-11-2004 3:19am

Is there any problem in using a Northern ireland address. I am very near the border and have quite a few friends in there that I could avail of.

One other question, I read several different replies to this but can somebody confirm: Is the card pre-activated before it is sent from Sky. If not, whose digibox does it have to be inserted into? i.e. my own or my friend's in N. I. and finally if it is the friends digibox does he have to give them his account and digibox details and will it then work in mine@

I read thro a good lot of the posts - quite a lot of them here - so hopefully I haven't asked the same question as someone else.

shinobi · 29-11-2004 5:10am

Jimmyireland wrote:

I have one of these cards and a spare digibox. What I would like to know is, whether I can set up the two boxes in my living room, and operate the two of them,using the one coax cable, without having to change the lead at the back of the box..?

Connect one box into the TV via RF channel & the other Via SCART. I'm not sure if theres any way around it, but you will require 2 seperate feeds from the LNB to the Digi boxes. Probably requiring either dual or quad feed LNB also.

rockbeer · 29-11-2004 4:12pm

Anyone know how to hide the phone number? I'm with UTV and 141 doesn't do anything.

Cheers all.

lukedavy · 29-11-2004 5:11pm

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29-11-2004 9:30pm

Ok enough said.
Thread closed.
Luke Davey has been banned for trading which specifcally breaks the rules of Boards.ie who host ICDG

Ordered freesat card for Ireland

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