2 Sky Subscriptions at same address?

jester77

Is it possible to have 2 sky subscriptions at the same address?
My parents have a sky subscription at the moment and I would like to take out a subscription at their address. I'm moving to Europe and would like to take sky with me.

Heinz

jester77 wrote:

Is it possible to have 2 sky subscriptions at the same address?
My parents have a sky subscription at the moment and I would like to take out a subscription at their address. I'm moving to Europe and would like to take sky with me.

Don't you live in the Granny flat at the moment - which has a slightly different address (e.g. 56a as opposed to 56) to your parents.

jester77

Heinz wrote:

Don't you live in the Granny flat at the moment - which has a slightly different address (e.g. 56a as opposed to 56) to your parents.

Yeah... but parents live in the country, no house numbers or postal codes.
Address is like this:

Townland,
Village,
County

Macy

jester77 wrote:

Yeah... but parents live in the country, no house numbers or postal codes.
Address is like this:

Townland,
Village,
County

Make up a house name - postie will know who you are and where to send it, sky won't know any better.

jester77

Macy wrote:

Make up a house name - postie will know who you are and where to send it, sky won't know any better.

Yeah, might try that! Just wondering if sky check up on this?
Would I need a phone number, thinking of getting the sky+? Parents have the normal subscription and it's never been hooked to a telephone line.

dancin

jester77 wrote:

Yeah, might try that! Just wondering if sky check up on this?
Would I need a phone number, thinking of getting the sky+? Parents have the normal subscription and it's never been hooked to a telephone line.

Cheapest to get sky multi room, then you can get the second connection much cheaper than a second completely seperate connection.

But...

My mam got multi-room in a few months ago. She had sky for 2 years previously, never connected it to the phone. A few weeks after multiroom was put in she got the letters from sky about keeping the digibox's connected to the phone or else will get disconnected.

jester77

dancin wrote:

Cheapest to get sky multi room, then you can get the second connection much cheaper than a second completely seperate connection.

But...

My mam got multi-room in a few months ago. She had sky for 2 years previously, never connected it to the phone. A few weeks after multiroom was put in she got the letters from sky about keeping the digibox's connected to the phone or else will get disconnected.

What happens if the house doesn't have a phone line? The house I currently live in has no phone, as we refuse to give anything to eircom.

dmeehan

you need a phone line for sky+ or for a sky multiroom sub

digiking

if you don't have a phoneline, you'll have to pay full price for the equiptment...I think

jester77

digiking wrote:

if you don't have a phoneline, you'll have to pay full price for the equiptment...I think

ahh, always a catch!
Would it work if my parents get a sky+ upgrade and I get a regular sky and we do a swap? Or would my parents also need the phoneline?

digiking

Might do, But still skyplus won't work without being connected to phone line, sky claim

Sparky

Skyplus worked for me without the phone line for months, only got a letter once but still didnt connect it.

I have skyplus 1 yr and a half now so it does'nt matter now

Mossy Monk

digiking wrote:

Might do, But still skyplus won't work without being connected to phone line, sky claim

absolute rubbish

Sky would do anything to have those phone lines connected

i have 2 Sky+ boxes at 2 seperate addresses, neither have ever been connected to a phone line and amazingly they work fine

dmeehan

Mossy Monk wrote:

absolute rubbish

Sky would do anything to have those phone lines connected

i have 2 Sky+ boxes at 2 seperate addresses, neither have ever been connected to a phone line and amazingly they work fine

tis music to my ears (if i ever receive my sky cards :mad: )

Sparky

you only need the phone connection for you to watch SBO legally and to use online interactive services.

Sky use the the excuse of having the phone line always connected so that they can recieve data from the box, most importantly the SBO data and on occasions if the right card is in the box and maybe tv viewing data, which im sure they can get if not have already.
Sky in terms of legality can cancel your sub. because under the T&C you have commited to keeping you digibox connected to a fixed and operational telephone line for 12 months, and you are recieving your equipment subsidised.

But in saying that when electoplus installed my first sky box back in oct 2001 the installer just measured the multicore to the nearest outlet and cut it, then terminated it rolled it up into a bunch and said i only needed it to use SBO.
Sky never contacted me on not having the line connected but when sky+ came into the house sierra installed it and when it was'nt connected sky sent a letter telling me on what im missing.

Mossy Monk

the phone line is only necessary if you buy through sky, i bought both Sky+ boxes independantly of them. may have cost more but i dont want phone lines connected to anything but a computer or telephone

Sparky

i agree 100% with you there, and in thinking you do pay for the full sky+ product, but there excuse on having the line connected is because you have a sky+ subscription.

jester77

Mossy Monk wrote:

the phone line is only necessary if you buy through sky, i bought both Sky+ boxes independantly of them. may have cost more but i dont want phone lines connected to anything but a computer or telephone

Where can you get the sky+ boxes independently and do they come with subscriptions or how does it work?

Mossy Monk

go to any electrical outlet or website that sell Sky boxes. they dont come with a subscription, ring sky for a card

bazza

Folks, doesn't the contract just say 'connected to a working phone line' ? It doesn't mention anything about acutally being able to dial out. So take for example the situation where you have DSL and no line filter on the connection to the digibox - its still connected to the phone line, but probably won't be able to do a call back due to extra noise on line etc. Now under these circumstances, you've not broken the terms of your contract as you've still connected to a working phone line.

I would suggest that if the only condition they state is 'connected to a working phone line' then they have no grounds legally to cancel your contract if the box can't call out, for a reason such as the one above.

Now if they explicitly state something about call back in the contact, then its an entirely different story...

Hagar

Bazza. You're one cute hoor. Full marks for that one.

bazza

I just tells it like it is....

dmeehan

maybe if it cant call back (for whatever reason) then it might be considered a non-working phone line?????

jester77

www.germansky.com have a device that I can place between my sky+ box and phone line. It fools sky into thinking that the box is in the UK.

http://www.germansky.com/en/superdial/superdialer.php

Problems with this is that you have to switch off CLI and its for UK boxes!

This would be an ideal solution if they had irish subscriptions but its only for uk plus they charge you a yearly comission! Anyone know of an Irish equivalent or where I could get a device like the dialler above?

Ideally I would like to purchase the sky+, but if it's not feasable I would just settle for this sky digibox deal @ 179:
http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/SkyDigitalAbroad.html

Not sure if the sky+ deal at 299 is available for someone abroad as you may need the phone line, must get onto them!

John R

If you are going to take a box and sub abroad then the multiroom deal is out of the question as Sky do check phone connection and will take action if both boxes are not connected to the same phoneline.

You will have to get a second seperate subscription, if you can get a subsidised box and install (a new subscriber at a house without a previous install) then do it.

A subsidised box comes with a contract requiring an active phone connection for 12 months, the same is true of a subsidised sky+ install. Although Sky will check up on this and send out letters they are not as bothered as about multiroom, unless thoings have changed recently they will not do much about it past warning letters.

If you are taking a box abroad then take the old one with the sub long past any phone connection requirements.