Sky multi-room in a different house

SteelyDanJalapeno

Could be a silly question but,

I had multi room for my bedroom in the family home for the last 2 years, i'm now moving house, the house I am moving into previously had sky installed so the dish and wiring is all ready to go.

Can I theoretically(i'd never actually do it, i'm sure its against t & c's) take my sky box from my room, plug it into the new house and continue the multi room part of the subscription from there???

biffontour

Yes it will work away as normal,

But leaving yourselves open to CLI charges when not connected to phone line

SteelyDanJalapeno

What if the original unit was installed in a house that never had a land line? It's been part of a multiroom package for years now and the house has no phone line

biffontour

TiltedBrain wrote: »

What if the original unit was installed in a house that never had a land line? It's been part of a multiroom package for years now and the house has no phone line

Well if there has never been any problem before there is a good chance you won't have a problem, the phone line has no implication on watching the channels

zg3409

You would want to check you bill carefully every month. Suddenly you might start being charged for multiple single charges instead of multiroom. They sometimes do this without warning.

McSween

no phoneline in my current apartment either. i'm moving back to my own house next week which has an ordinary sky connection. is it as simple as him just adjusting the wiring at the tv point to enable sky plus box. i hope he doesnt spring a surprise of installation charge as sky said it is free.

zg3409

Mc Sween are you talking about multiroom or a single box?

If where you are moving to has an existing dish with one connection then Sky will happily install a new dish with 4 or more connections for free. However they will lock you into another 12 month contract. In the long term it may work out cheaper paying someone to install a new dish and cabling and then, if you are out of contract haggling a better price/package from Sky.

The "free moving" from Sky forces you into a 12 month contract with no chance of discounts for 12 months. Not so "free". Ot also applies to "standard installation" which is sales speak for then put the dish wherever they want and run cables on the outside.

McSween

thanks ZG, single connection in tv room in my house.

We have lived in this apartment since June and due to a change of circumstance we have to move back to my house, tenants leaving.

The is a 2006 ordinary sky connection in the house. I am going to bring my sky hd box over to the house with remote, for a single connection. I dont mind a new 12 month contract, we have 8 months to go anyway.

You say 4 connections can be put in free of charge? Do you mean in terms of multi room for additional 15 per room or that he can wire it up for us to move the box to upstairs if we wish. I still have my old sky box from 2006 also.

zg3409

McSween wrote: »

thanks ZG.

We have lived in this apartment since June and due to a change of circumstance we have to move back to my house, tenants leaving.

The is a 2006 ordinary sky connection in the house. I am going to bring my sky hd box over to the house with remote, for a single connection. I dont mind a new 12 month contract, we have 8 months to go anyway.

You say 4 connections can be put in free of charge? Do you mean in terms of multi room for additional 15 per room or that he can wire it up for us to move the box to upstairs if we wish. I still have my old sky box from 2006 also.

Multiroom is 15 euro per room every month.

All new installs have a dish with 4 connections. 2 are used for the main box, 2 are normally left unconnected unless you pay for multiroom.

If you supply a box or not multiroom is still 15 per month. You can haggle this price down if out of contract.

So if you pay for 1 box, they will put 2 cables in main room. Anything else is an extra payment and not covered under the "free" move. You could put in extra cables yourself and just use the old box for the free channels. You could also install cabling for a Sky eye allowing you to watch recordings and channels from the main TV in the bedroom. Both those choices have no extra monthly costs.

If you go for pay multiroom you need a phoneline connected to both boxes.

McSween

ahh so the existing dish may not cater for sky hd, therefore he must install a new dish with the 4 connections. i will be sticking to the living room, might run a cable up the stairs or into the other living room to give us the option of watching it there.

zg3409

Not exactly HD. The second cable is to allow you to watch one channel while recording another. You can use the box with one cable but then you lose this feature.

New cables need to be run directly from the dish to the room if you want to manually unplug the box and move it to another room.