How is Multi Room Monitored?

jasgrif11

Just wondering how multiroom is monitored. ie., whats to stop you getting multiroom and giving the box to your friend he plugs in his phone line and he gets same channells as you and overall yee split the cost?

Surely Sky have monitoring systems for this?

Mods I'm not promoting this idea but merely asking how/if its monitored

Gregor Samsa

Both boxes have to be on the same phoneline.

watty

i.e. on Metro or ISDN, even the same socket via a splitter.

eirlink

but the box makes the call. so how to they know the phone number of the line the box was calling on? caller id maybe, but what if line is ex directory.
I dont understand how sky can know the number of the line unless its id is shown?

Owen

eirlink wrote:

but the box makes the call. so how to they know the phone number of the line the box was calling on? caller id maybe, but what if line is ex directory.
I dont understand how sky can know the number of the line unless its id is shown?

SKY will charge you for 2 full box rentals if you are ex-directory. You must restore caller ID to your phone to use Multiroom at the discounted price.

DermoMIO

we have multi room and were sharing out internet phone line with our 2nd box and sky kept sending us a letter telling to us to plug in our wire or else they will charge us for two ful lsubscriptions. as for the ex directory bloke above me our line is ex directory but have had no problems with sky over it

snaps

i know some neighbours that share there dish with each other. I think 3 of them have one sub with 2 multiroom recievers. The dish is on the middle house and 3 feeds to each house. as far as i know their recievers are not wired up to the phonelines. This phoneline thing stopped me getting sky when i moved house as I have voip now through cable BB. Sky wouldnt allow me to get sky installed with out phoneline for the latest offers. So I never bothered with phone line rental and went with cable. suppose I could plug a sky box into my voip connection?

notahappycamper

eirlink wrote:

but the box makes the call. so how to they know the phone number of the line the box was calling on? caller id maybe, but what if line is ex directory.
I dont understand how sky can know the number of the line unless its id is shown?

If it's ex-directory you have to go into the into the "hidden" installer menu and put "142" into the dialing pre-fix.

watty

It might work. Try a fax machine or PC dialup modem. It depends on how your cable provider has implemented the phone service.

watty

I don't think they really need to to know the caller ID actually. The way it works relies on both boxes failling to dial at one time and both succeeding at two other different times. Caller ID can be too easily faked.

notahappycamper

watty wrote:

I don't think they really need to to know the caller ID actually. The way it works relies on both boxes failling to dial at one time and both succeeding at two other different times. Caller ID can be too easily faked.

They do believe me. I have 2 boxes and I got a nice letter not once but twice telling me that there seems to be a problem with my connection. I had the 2 boxes connected to a phone line - my no. is ex-directory. So I put the "142" prefix in on the "telephone settings" option on the installer menu. It does a callback automatically when you do this and it worked.

dingding

Changed my phone number, moved to smart telecom andno problems with sky. the actual number must not matter if they both call from the same number.

snaps

So when installing multiroom in next door neighbours get a phone extension as well LOL!!!!