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Phone line for Multiroom

  • 23-02-2007 11:59am
    #1
    keith_d99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    Common issue I suppose with Sky. I have received the first letter from Sky to connect my multi-room box to the phone line.

    2 Questions:

    1. Can you pay Sky something to waive this part of the contract for multi-room?

    2. I have no phone socket upstairs - does anybody know of a place where I can get a reasonably priced wireless phone socket?? Cheapest I am seeing is approx €100 and that's eBay

    Thanks,
    Keith.


Comments

  • #2
    bigbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭bigbob


    wireless dect phone extender available from maplin
    http://213.201.212.225/?pag=39&prodnr=102
    should do what you want. Though it might be cheaper to run a wire!


  • #3
    Zapho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Zapho


    I wasn't aware of this part of the contract when the tech arrived to install
    my multiroom. So I told him there was no way I could put a phoneline in that
    room, so what he did was he set up the second box so I could use it way
    for 6 weeks before it'll check for the phoneline, giving me six weeks to get
    a phoneline in there.

    Well that was over 2 months ago and nothing has stopped working as of yet
    and I haven't put a phoneline in either. Now I don't really recommend you do
    this.If theres someway to run a copper line in then do.

    I've never had my first skybox connected to a phoneline either.


  • #4
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    I got away with it for a year, then my subscription went from 70 Euro, to 120 until I installed the second line and they had confirmed dialbacks.


  • #5
    Lawros Tache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 321 ✭✭Lawros Tache


    ned78 wrote:
    I got away with it for a year, then my subscription went from 70 Euro, to 120 until I installed the second line and they had confirmed dialbacks.

    Same happened to me, my box wouldn't call back due to a fault. Sky wouldn't pay to have it fixed or replaced as my contract was up and i wouldn't pay out of stubborness because i felt they should.

    If you tell them you want to cancel the multi-room part, then the Sky+ fee (which is waived when you choose multi-room) kicks in, which is almost the same cost as having 2 boxes but for 1.

    You cant argue with the machine that is Sky, god knows i've tried. In the end i just put the slave box on freeview and got a viewing card from UK.


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