Best Sky Cabling Option

Lemlin

Hi folks,

We have Sky at the minute in my wife's name but have just cancelled the contract and changed to my name as we got offered half price for a 12 month new sign up.

We have a Sky Plus box currently and under the new offer we are getting a new Sky Plus box and a standard box.

Now, our current box is in our sun room and isn't hooked up to the telephone.
We want the new Sky Plus box to go into our sitting room and there is a telephone connection beside the TV.

However, I don't want the engineer to have to run a cable from our hall, where the TV cable comes into the house, over to the Sky Plus box in the sun room. We were told we'd have to have both boxes hooked up to the telephone for multiroom. I'm told you can get around this with a telephone wirless adapter but those are €50 and I wanted to avoid the unnecessary cost.

I'm just wondering what my best option would be?
Should I just get the agent to setup the standard box in a room upstairs and then take the card from the standard box and put it into the Plus box in the sun room when he is gone? Then we'd have Sky Plus boxes in both our sun room and our sitting room, without having to hook up the one from the sun room to the telephone line. That way, we'd have Sky Plus in our two boxes upstairs and the third box would pick up freeview I believe.

I'm just wondering though, when he is messing around with the connections upstairs in the attic to setup the two new boxes, would he move the feed going to the sun room?

superleedsdub

Only one box is required to be connected to a phoneline for SKY multiroom

PogMoThoin

superleedsdub wrote: »

Only one box is required to be connected to a phoneline for SKY multiroom

Not true, both must be connected

superleedsdub

I`ve 2 boxes at home with only 1 connected (second box was installed in january).....Is this something they strictly enforce with new installations?

PogMoThoin

superleedsdub wrote: »

I`ve 2 boxes at home with only 1 connected (second box was installed in january).....Is this something they strictly enforce with new installations?

Some people get away with it, but the fact of the matter is that the contract says that both boxes must be connected at all times. Telling someone they only need one connected is wrong and could cost them the price of 2 subscriptions, because that's what they do if they suspect the boxes aren't in the same house.

Mimikyu

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PogMoThoin

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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This does not mean it's wise to advise people not to bother connecting them. These threads occur here every few weeks, it's always the same, people come on saying they're getting away with it. It's in the contract that you have to have them connected, they can and do charge.

zg3409

Get a wireless telephone line extender and it should solve your problem.

Mimikyu

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Lemlin

zg3409 wrote: »

Get a wireless telephone line extender and it should solve your problem.

I wanted to avoid that though.

PogMoThoin

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Maybe so, but that's four contracts that clearly state that all boxes must be connected to a phone line at all times.