SKY Multiroom Question

spfeno

Dear All,

I have a question regarding the multiroom option from SKY. I've just ordered it tonite from SKY and its due for installation next Thursday 12th Oct. After ordering I started reading up about it here on Boards and I'm now in two minds and am thinking of cancelling the order.

Do you HAVE to have both boxes connected to the phone line ? My previous original box was installed four years ago when we moved in and although it was supposed to be connected then, I got away with it (spoke nicely to the installer) as I didn't have a phone socket in the living room where it was installed (the only room in the house without one).

If they HAVE to be connected I'm going to have to run phone cable around to the original box as well as the kids playroom (location for intended multiroom point).
I've read on one of the BOARDS threads that you may be able to pay the installer a NPL (no phone line) subscription of €35 to avoid this - is this the case ?

I don't want to go to the extra hassle of connecting the boxes to the phone.
I want the new point for my original house ( I'm not ordering muiltiroom to gain a second cheap SKY subscription).

ANY ADVICE ON HOW TO AVOID THIS WOULD BE APPRECIATED GUYS

P.S. - if I do have to get phone connected, will it affect my EIRCOM broadband connection

watty

Multiroom offers a reduced cost 2nd sub of only 15 Euro. The phone connection verifies both boxes are at the same address, so yes unless you want to pay full price you absolutely must have the phone connection. Otherwise people cheat.

spfeno

Thanks Watty

Read a bit more after I posted and discovered AC plug socket wireless phone connecters in the UK - any idea where I can pick these up in Ireland

Will it affect my EIRCOM broadband connection

Thanks again

watty

If the Wireless connectors use DECT then OK, otherwise illegal.

As long as every non ADSL device (modem, fax, DECT cordless, phone)
goes via a phone port on an ADSL filter your bb is fine. A master ADSL filter feeding all the phone sockets is a better idea.

Owen

I've had Multiroom for 2 years, and recently connected the two boxes to sky to prevent the price hike they were going to charge me if I didn't.

Those AC phone points are flaky at best. They won't work if you have surge connector plugboards, and on top of that, some sky boxes are incompatible (There's threads on this in UK forums). What I did to ease the trauma of running yet another cable through my house was to get a couple of metres of Cat5 Cable, and cut the insulation off. I used one twisted pair as a phone line, and it's so thin, I was able to bury it between the carpet and skirting board. No one can see it's there, but it works.