Wireless Phone Jacks for Sky+.

deadwood

Please redirect if i'm repeating a previous enquiry.

Recently got Sky+ fitted for the first time. Have Sky+ in the living room and a regular box (multi room?) in the bedroom. The only phone socket is beside the front door in the hall.
The (pretty unhelpful,unpunctual and shoddy) fitter said we'd need to connect the boxes to the phone line. I don't want a trail of wires to the phone jack. He suggested a wireless phone jack with 2 slaves. The unenterprising fitter didn't sell them. I've tried a good few stores (Harvey Norman, Currys etc and local) to no avail. Haven't made it to Maplins yet.
On Ebay.ie a U.K. company called Hip-ip have them for €125 aprox.
Has anyone tried these and do they fit irish phone sockets (I know I can get adaptors cheaply if I need to).

I have a wireless router for broadband (laptop & p.c.) - would this be any use somehow?

Finally, do I really need to connect to the phone line at all? If it's for updates (i.e.free market research for Mr. Murdoch) and movies, i'm not too bothered and could wire it up occcasionally?
Thanks again!

ethernet

Both boxes need to be connected to the same line or else you face paying for multiple subscriptions instead of just the cost of multiroom.

I think the wireless jobbies (which I believe Maplin sell) are overpriced. Installing an extra socket isn't difficult and will save you a bundle.

tomslick

If you have multiroom installed leave it connected to phone line (overground/loose) until your next itemised telephone bill. When it arrives, check for two strange phone calls in the middle of the night with a difference of 5 to 10 minutes. This is the callback from the boxes. This is only done once a month so connect the box to the phone socket on that night. It's not a great system but we've used this system for people who have caravans/holiday homes.

If this fails sky will send you a letter but you call them up and say you have the broadband on (needs filter for callback to work) and you can do that months callback manually.

deadwood

ethernet wrote: »

Both boxes need to be connected to the same line or else you face paying for multiple subscriptions instead of just the cost of multiroom.

I think the wireless jobbies (which I believe Maplin sell) are overpriced. Installing an extra socket isn't difficult and will save you a bundle.

Would that not entail phonelines trailing around the house? Only 1 phone socket fitted at the front door - the newish eircom plastic box accessible from outside.

Thanks for the input tomslick.
Could the wireless broadband (eircom) router be used by connecting a wireless receiver to the boxes, similar to a wireless printing setup?
I hate the sight of wires all over the place - i've been avoiding a 5.1 speaker system because of this!

Brolly

deadwood wrote: »

Please redirect if i'm repeating a previous enquiry.

Recently got Sky+ fitted for the first time. Have Sky+ in the living room and a regular box (multi room?) in the bedroom. The only phone socket is beside the front door in the hall.
The (pretty unhelpful,unpunctual and shoddy) fitter said we'd need to connect the boxes to the phone line. I don't want a trail of wires to the phone jack. He suggested a wireless phone jack with 2 slaves. The unenterprising fitter didn't sell them. I've tried a good few stores (Harvey Norman, Currys etc and local) to no avail. Haven't made it to Maplins yet.
On Ebay.ie a U.K. company called Hip-ip have them for €125 aprox.
Has anyone tried these and do they fit irish phone sockets (I know I can get adaptors cheaply if I need to).

I have a wireless router for broadband (laptop & p.c.) - would this be any use somehow?

Finally, do I really need to connect to the phone line at all? If it's for updates (i.e.free market research for Mr. Murdoch) and movies, i'm not too bothered and could wire it up occcasionally?
Thanks again!

The Sky installer took the phone line from our socket in the hallway - out through the outside wall, along the guttering and in through the sitting room outer wall! What a way to do it!!! Idiot! He was away before I got home and nobody in house thought it a good idea to check his handywork before he left!!!

deadwood

brolly wrote: »

The Sky installer took the phone line from our socket in the hallway - out through the outside wall, along the guttering and in through the sitting room outer wall! What a way to do it!!! Idiot! He was away before I got home and nobody in house thought it a good idea to check his handywork before he left!!!

Classy!
My guy was leaving the coaxial hanging loosely the whole way down to ground level into a hole that looked like Stevie Wonder had drilled.
This was after turning up 3 hours late without a phonecall, breaking his one and only drill bit and disappearing for the night as he had to travel to "the store" as the half dozen hardware shops near me wouldn't stock this specialist bit! Still managed to turn up 2 hours late the next morning.

Brolly

deadwood wrote: »

Classy!
My guy was leaving the coaxial hanging loosely the whole way down to ground level into a hole that looked like Stevie Wonder had drilled.
This was after turning up 3 hours late without a phonecall, breaking his one and only drill bit and disappearing for the night as he had to travel to "the store" as the half dozen hardware shops near me wouldn't stock this specialist bit! Still managed to turn up 2 hours late the next morning.

And they say that Sky installers are untrained!:rolleyes: