At home at the moment we have sky multiroom. One in the front room, and 2nd in my bedroom. We pay £21 plus £10 for the multiroom. Mum pays £21, I pay the £10.
Now, im moving house soon and will be getting sky! But I was thinking if there was already a dish installed, could I just take my box and card to my new flat and have sky for the £10 multiroom price????? As this would save me at least a tenner every week!! I never have my sky box plugged in to the phone like at home now, so that wont be a problem at all. I know sky wouldnt want me doing this, but in theory would it deffo work??
Also, im wanting to get Sky+ soon, so would I be able to buy a +box off ebay for example, and plug it in and it will work fine and I wont need to tell sky or anything? Obviously Id get the extra cable installed from the LNB to the box.
Cheers :)
Youd also need a Sky+ subscription which is an extra tenner a month also as you dont have any of the premium channels.
In theory, yes it should work, but Sky+ can bork if its not connected to the phone line.
phone line knacks your plan. Although I kept one of my boxes unplugged for 4 months or so before they really hassled me about it. (In fact it actually was plugged in but it was in a phone line with a different number and they couldnt handle it).
Could just wait till they hassle you about it and itd work fine.
Goblin, you dont need to pay any extra now! Its free....except for the box!! ALthough, my mum is gonna start paying for movies anyway!
Ive left my phone line unplugged before, and there wasnt really hassle, just they sent a letter after six months asking me to plug it in. So really it isnt such a problem!
So, in theory it should work fine at a different address, and Ill get all 6 mixes and movies for a tenner which is good!
There isnt actually a dish at my new flat, so Ill have to get a local guy to fit a dish and cable through the wall, and Ill order a Sky+ box from somewhere and inform Sky so they can marry the box to the card.
Theres no reason Im aware of that it wouldnt work.
A satellite dish is just an aerial and the signal covers a third of the globe. As long as someones paying it should work the same as if you didnt plug the phone line in at home afaik.
One thing to be wary of is the sky + signal obviously requires two feed from the satellite. A dish only provides 3 iirc. So if your parents have Sky + and you try and say youre adding a second then theyll twig on somethings wrong.
Quote from: GoblinYoud also need a Sky+ subscription which is an extra tenner a month also as you dont have any of the premium channels.
In theory, yes it should work, but Sky+ can bork if its not connected to the phone line.
Sky+ fee was scrapped several months ago
It will work, but your T&C says the box has to be connected to a phone line.. Its illegal, but you could easily get away with it.
My parents box hasnt been connected to the phone line ever since we got sky at least 5 years ago, never had a letter or anything about it, even since they got a new spangly box a year ago.
my folks sky is never connected to the phone and hasnt been for about 4 years. When our box blew up a few months back the sky bloke came out and I put it in quiock before he came and he said "oh youve got your box plugged into the phone line? Most people dont bother"
Why is everyone bothered about having the box plugged in?
Quote from: Clockd 0NeWhy is everyone bothered about having the box plugged in?
Think its just you *should*, thats the only real rule from sky :lol:
Steve, do you mean you can only connect three boxes to the dish? I thought it could be up to 8 normal boxes, or 4 sky+ boxes as you just buy and Oct LNB.
the box doesnt have to be in the phone line. the engineers will tell you that too, they like to plug it in first time you turn it on, but after that you can take it out...
Matt
Quote from: EggtasticoQuote from: GoblinYoud also need a Sky+ subscription which is an extra tenner a month also as you dont have any of the premium channels.
In theory, yes it should work, but Sky+ can bork if its not connected to the phone line.
Sky+ fee was scrapped several months ago
Oh. Missed that one. Ive had the movies since day one so wasnt paying extra anyway, but good to know thats one tenner dropped.
Need them to drop the HD tenner next, or multiroom. Or at least have it if you have HD you dont also pay an extra tenner for multirooming your existing box too.
octa-lnbs are as common as muck now.