Sky landline issue

Newport81

Hey am currently with UPC for bband and tv fed of UPC tv service so am going to get sky only issue is I want multi room but don't have landline is there any way around this? Also has anyone any issues with sky worth noting before I make the move? Is it hard too get out of the contract if I'm not happy?

ted1

Upc phone is pretty cheap.

Newport81

ted1 wrote: »

Upc phone is pretty cheap.

Hope they accept UPC landline for multi room? Anyone know?

Newport81

Also does the multiroom landline have too be in the actual bedroom or can it be anywhere in the house?

Newport81

Sorry for all the questions but is there the option of getting freesat upstairs through the sky dish? If the phone line thing is gonna be a prob or would I have too get a seperate dish installed?

Mountjoy Mugger

You're better off asking in the Satellite forum, but yes. You can get freesat channels on a sky dish. You can use a sky box or a freesat box such as a Humax box.

I can't answer your multiroom questions, I'm afraid.

Riskymove

smyths wrote: »

Also does the multiroom landline have too be in the actual bedroom or can it be anywhere in the house?

the box needs to connect to a phone line, it does not have to be in same room but has to be able to co0nnect to it, either by running cable or using a wireless phone extender

You're better off asking in the Satellite forum, but yes. You can get freesat channels on a sky dish. You can use a sky box or a freesat box such as a Humax box.

just so you know, you wont get Irish channels on freesar, but you could get an aerial and go down the saorview route for that

Newport81

Can you reccomend a wireless phone extender that will work with a UPC landline please thanks a million

Riskymove

smyths wrote: »

Can you reccomend a wireless phone extender that will work with a UPC landline please thanks a million

none of the people I know who have them have a UPC phone, its regular eircom line

they were bought in Maplins and work fine

http://www.maplin.co.uk/dect-wireless-phone-line-extender-97658

ted1

you could get one of these:

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=10205

this will give you landline capability via a sim card.

steveon

I have seen countless people claim that UPC landline will work with sky boxes for multiroom, I have tried on countless times using these and none would do a successful callback.

Solair

UPC use a very high quality version of VoIP on their landlines. They're excellent for voice and fax. However, for high speed modems, i.e. 56kbps modems like those used in the sky box, or in dial-up internet, there may some problems.

High speed modems are designed to work over a standard digital circuit switch and pulse-code-modulation CODECSs like aLaw (used in Europe (i.e. normal eircom line)) and they very similar μLaw (used in the US/Canada/Japan)

A-Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-law_algorithm
μ-Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Μ-law_algorithm

The VoIP line is possibly garbling up the modem's signals by compression them or sampling them at some odd rate that the modem does not expect.

In which case, there's really nothing you can do to make it work as it's just fundamentally incompatible with the technology Sky are using.

ronan45

Riskymove wrote: »

none of the people I know who have them have a UPC phone, its regular eircom line

they were bought in Maplins and work fine

http://www.maplin.co.uk/dect-wireless-phone-line-extender-97658

Cheers Rickymove, I got a phone just installed in my room and getting sky. rang to check about having landline connected to boxes in front and back of house, She said i would need to send a cable to each from my bedroom! bloody nightmare. This looks like it will do the trick