sky: DIY self install?

JMSE

I have a free-to-air set up at home, dish, receiver, all set up and working perfectly. Now I want to go the sky route. I've gone and run phone connections to the places I want to have sky boxes. The reason I've done this myself is obvious - I dont want satellite cables running across my rooftiles from front to back and phone cables gilding every skirting board and architrave like the sky installers would leave me with.

But I still would have to pay sky 50euro for a standard installation, even though I dont want the dish, the lnb, the cableing etc. Is there a way around this, get the sky boxes and cards and hook it all up myself, and not have to pay a 50euro charge?

jhegarty

Yep , just phone up and they will send you a card.....

byte

jhegarty wrote: »

Yep , just phone up and they will send you a card.....

Card is no good without the Skyboxes.

Maybe try an independant retailer, see if he can offer some sort of dealie. You'll not get a box sent directly from Sky anyway. Also, if you've only got a single LNB on the dish, you'll need to change it to accomodate the extra boxes.

JMSE

I have a quad lnb so thats ok. I can get a used basic sky box from a relative, I would need another though, and 2 cards. So, I want to ring sky and say 'i want a skybox and 2 cards and I dont expect to have to pay for this, only my monthly subscription in one months time'. Also the sky website seems very UK oriented, in that the phone numbers are all 0818..... whats that about, we only have 4million people here and thats not enough?

Tony

try the sky Ireland website

JMSE wrote: »

I have a quad lnb so thats ok. I can get a used basic sky box from a relative, I would need another though, and 2 cards. So, I want to ring sky and say 'i want a skybox and 2 cards and I dont expect to have to pay for this, only my monthly subscription in one months time'. Also the sky website seems very UK oriented, in that the phone numbers are all 0818..... whats that about, we only have 4million people here and thats not enough?

byte

0818 is Irish national rate number.

JMSE

I've just rung the 'join' number on the sky ireland site, explained to the operator how I was already set up, but he saw no way around the visit from an sky engineer...which would cost 50euro. Using unapproved equipment would void warranties....

This is wasteful, they want 50 euro for nothing. He even suggested I could 'update' my dish to their sky dish, what would John Gormley say!!

Sam Radford

Pay up, get the installer to leave the full kit, and sell what you don't want on eBay or locally.

JMSE

Yep, thats what I've done, took the 'introduce a friend' offer and though I'll pay 50, they'll pay me 75 back.