Sky + - work with a gsm communicator?

O7Pat

Hi

For my alarm I have gsm communicator that contacts monitoring station and texts if alarm goes off - my question --> is this enough for sky + to operate? (I don't have phone line)

Tony

O7Pat wrote:

Hi

For my alarm I have gsm communicator that contacts monitoring station and texts if alarm goes off - my question --> is this enough for sky + to operate? (I don't have phone line)

Does it provide dial tone ?

O7Pat

I am not sure if it has a dial tone.

To be honest its due to be fitted in the next few days and I am thinking of changing the plan and getting a phone line instead. So I am just wondering about best options now that I am thinking of getting sky + as well.

watty

It's unlikely. It's a built in modem, no phone socket I think. The speed on GSM is only 14.4kbps. I don't think a Sky box modem can go below 19.2kbps (pair gain phone line speed).

O7Pat

Thanks for that. Seems my options are more limited than I thought.

Was going to go with the gsm sender and no phone line at approx €575

I am now thinking of going with a phone line with (hopefully) free installation and a minimum monthly charge of €24.18 (most likely to go with the €25.99 option) for a service I don't really want or need but will need for sky + in the future.

Any thoughts on what would be best?

digitaldr

O7Pat wrote:

Hi

For my alarm I have gsm communicator that contacts monitoring station and texts if alarm goes off - my question --> is this enough for sky + to operate? (I don't have phone line)

I've had Sky+ for years and never had it connected to the phoneline - although I do have a landline!

Rippy

digitaldr wrote:

I've had Sky+ for years and never had it connected to the phoneline - although I do have a landline!

The issue is Sky will not install SKy+ without a phone line in the house.
They do not seem to enforce the T&C that state it must be kept connected for a year (unless it is multiroom when it is ALWAYS enforced).
Some independents will activate your card in a box on their own line.
Ring round. If you are in Cork , PM me and I can point you in the right direction.

O7Pat

Rippy wrote:

The issue is Sky will not install SKy+ without a phone line in the house.
They do not seem to enforce the T&C that state it must be kept connected for a year (unless it is multiroom when it is ALWAYS enforced).
Some independents will activate your card in a box on their own line.
Ring round. If you are in Cork , PM me and I can point you in the right direction.

Thanks for that, I got a different impression --> the local installer told me that it would be no problem with ordinary sky but that sky + simply would not work properly without the phone line.

At this stage I had talked myself out of spending money on a gsm sender

quaalude

Rippy wrote:

The issue is Sky will not install SKy+ without a phone line in the house.
They do not seem to enforce the T&C that state it must be kept connected for a year (unless it is multiroom when it is ALWAYS enforced).
Some independents will activate your card in a box on their own line.
Ring round. If you are in Cork , PM me and I can point you in the right direction.

I just called Sky as I'd like Sky+ but I've no phone line (I've had a regular Sky box with no phone line connected for several years), and I was told I can't get Sky+ as I've no phone line.
Does anyone know any installers in Dublin who will activate the box on their own line, as Rippy suggests?

Bogger77

O7Pat wrote:

Thanks for that, I got a different impression --> the local installer told me that it would be no problem with ordinary sky but that sky + simply would not work properly without the phone line.

At this stage I had talked myself out of spending money on a gsm sender

My Sky+ is working perfectly well without a fone line, I've never connected either my regular sky or the s/h sky+ box to a phone line, in my current house. I don't have multi-room.

watty

Sky+ and SkyHD or even Multiroom don't use a phone line "to work" at all.

The phone line is so as to gather statistics and allow interactive ordering. On multiroom it is also to prove the receivers are at the same address.

Benedict XVI

So you need a phone line to 'activate' SKY+ and Multiroom but once installed they can work without the phone line pluged in.

Anyone know a installer in Kerry that will ignore the phone line rule ?