Telephone + Sky Box Wireless?

whippet

I have a Sky+ Box in the living room and a standard box in the bedroom. It a new house and were only getting settled as to where we want to position the living room furniture, now the problem is I will need about 25ft of telephone cable to run from the phone socket in the hallway to the sky box, it will look terrible even when it is pinned to the skirting etc.

Does anyone know if you can get somesort of a wireless sender (kinda like a wireless router) to send the signal, it would be so much handier.

And before people say that I don't need the phone line attached, a) I will do if I want to stop the threat of being charged the full whack for the second box and b) I do use the box office and interactive features.

watty

A wire is better.

Yes such Wireless devices exist.

whippet

watty wrote:

A wire is better.

.

why would that be?

does it work?

watty

Wireless is subject to and can cause interference.
In some locations wireless may not work due the wall content etc.
There may be security and privacy concerns.
The wireless product may in some cases actually be illegal.

I beleive there are some Wireless phone extenders. DECT based ones with a CE mark are legal and should work.

A telephone cable is a once off install and unless walked under a carpet (wears away insulation) or nibbled by rats/mice/hamsters/small children/Guinea pigs etc will give no trouble.

Sparky

If its just for the sky+ box.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34899&criteria=phone%20extender&doy=11m5

They can't say you didn't try.