Sky in new house

cdarcy89

I don't know if this has been asked and I apologise if it has.

If a sky account holder ordered multiroom (new box and card) could this be taken into a new house and used as the main sky box or would it have to be a new account created?

JustAddWater

cdarcy89 wrote: »

I don't know if this has been asked and I apologise if it has.

If a sky account holder ordered multiroom (new box and card) could this be taken into a new house and used as the main sky box or would it have to be a new account created?

Multiroom box MUST be connected to a phone line. The box will call sky periodically. The phone number of the call MUST match sky's record of what number the box should be using. If the box doesn't communicate with sky regularly, you'll get a letter saying it must be connected to the phone line.

If it still doesn't communicate, the account holder will be billed for a full sub for every multiroom box that sky can't correctly locate. Or if it calls sky with a different phone number

In short, no. You couldn't take for example, my multiroom box and split the bill

cdarcy89

Thats perfect. Thanks for you're help

The Ayatolla

I had private number on my home phone for years. So there's no way Sky could check if it was coming from the same line.

I've had multiroom in my house now for around 3 months. Neither box conncted to phone line. No letter from Sky.

A friend of mine has had multiroom for around 4 years. Neither box connected to phone line.

My brother got multiroom in May of this year. Again, no phone in the house.

I reckon it's worth a shot. Best bet would be put it in the other house, and call both of your phone providers (eircom, Vodafone or whoever) and enable Private Number on your outbound calls. Then connect both boxes to the phone line.

JustAddWater

The Ayatolla wrote: »

I had private number on my home phone for years. So there's no way Sky could check if it was coming from the same line.

I've had multiroom in my house now for around 3 months. Neither box conncted to phone line. No letter from Sky.

A friend of mine has had multiroom for around 4 years. Neither box connected to phone line.

My brother got multiroom in May of this year. Again, no phone in the house.

I reckon it's worth a shot. Best bet would be put it in the other house, and call both of your phone providers (eircom, Vodafone or whoever) and enable Private Number on your outbound calls. Then connect both boxes to the phone line.

You're right, they'll never know where the box is. Maybe that's a loophole? Maybe they'll write to you and ask you to unhide the number, no idea

I have read here that SKY take ages to follow up on this. Some get letters immediately, some have had the box unplugged for much much longer... Seems a bit hit and miss

I'm sure someone here will be on to say that they were stung for a full sub

You could always chance it, but it'll be that alright! Sky seem to be focused on illegal streams at the minute more so it seems

The Ayatolla

JustAddWater wrote: »

You're right, they'll never know where the box is. Maybe that's a loophole? Maybe they'll write to you and ask you to unhide the number, no idea

I have read here that SKY take ages to follow up on this. Some get letters immediately, some have had the box unplugged for much much longer... Seems a bit hit and miss

I'm sure someone here will be on to say that they were stung for a full sub

You could always chance it, but it'll be that alright! Sky seem to be focused on illegal streams at the minute more so it seems

I moved house 3 months ago anyway and during the home move the engineer didn't once ask about phone lines.

In my last house I had multiroom for years but both boxes were connected to a private Number. In my new house I just couldnt go through the hassle of running telephone wires. So i said I'd chance having none connected. So far so good!

SPAWKER

The Ayatolla wrote: »

I had private number on my home phone for years. So there's no way Sky could check if it was coming from the same line.

I've had multiroom in my house now for around 3 months. Neither box conncted to phone line. No letter from Sky.

A friend of mine has had multiroom for around 4 years. Neither box connected to phone line.

My brother got multiroom in May of this year. Again, no phone in the house.

I reckon it's worth a shot. Best bet would be put it in the other house, and call both of your phone providers (eircom, Vodafone or whoever) and enable Private Number on your outbound calls. Then connect both boxes to the phone line.

Yes but your engineer probably unhid your number by adding the prefix 142 in the telephone settings so it would show your number when it did its callback to sky when he installed your boxes.

winston_1

The Ayatolla wrote: »

I reckon it's worth a shot.

It is fraud, and probably a criminal offence.

martin12

winston_1 wrote: »

It is fraud, and probably a criminal offence.

Rupert Murdoch lol

The Ayatolla

SPAWKER wrote: »

Yes but your engineer probably unhid your number by adding the prefix 142 in the telephone settings so it would show your number when it did its callback to sky when he installed your boxes.

I think that was conveniently removed at some stage over the last decade :P

Fraud? Oh dear the PC police are out in force now ! :pac::pac: