Sky multi room package

Rudolph

It costs an extra £10 on your subscription to activate another sky receiver for another room in your house. This must be connected to a telephone line otherwise they charge the full subscription ie £85 for two subscriptions! They argue that if not plugged in you could set the receiver up at a neighbours house and both receive sky for £52.50 total (Full Package). What a good idea and thanks to sky for the suggestion.

Fenris

Technicly, as Sky Plus is supplied with a 4 way LNB, you could group buy for four houses! :rotfl:

Sky's such a rip-off.

stugib

I don't know if this was just a scare story put out by Sky, but there is supposedly also a safety issue about doing that - basically joining two house's electrical rings together=potential for big bang.

hawkwinddotcom

As long as the house's are on the same phase it should be alright but DONT try it

shelly

stugib wrote:

I don't know if this was just a scare story put out by Sky, but there is supposedly also a safety issue about doing that - basically joining two house's electrical rings together=potential for big bang.

Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang.

stugib

shelly wrote:

Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang.

My electrical knowledge extends to changing a plug, but surely they are physically joined by the fact you've got a wire going from one box in one house to the dish and then to another box in the second house? Read it on the DigitalSpy forum, whose members aren't normally Sky's biggest fans and now hawkwinddotcom mentioned it, yes it was something to do with the phases.

Searcher

stugib wrote:

My electrical knowledge extends to changing a plug, but surely they are physically joined by the fact you've got a wire going from one box in one house to the dish and then to another box in the second house? Read it on the DigitalSpy forum, whose members aren't normally Sky's biggest fans and now hawkwinddotcom mentioned it, yes it was something to do with the phases.

My electrical knowledge far exceeds changing a plug or at least I hope it does lol I'm an electrician
You're 100% correct in saying it's to do with the phases. :T
It's probable that 2 different houses are on different phases as each house uses one phase of a 3 phase system.
Without getting too technical the voltage across one phase to either neutral or earth = 220V but the voltage across 2 phases = 415V.
under normal fault free conditions running 2 boxes in different houses shouldn't be a problem but if one of the boxes were to develop a fault then you could end up with a potentially serious situation.

silvercar

Interesting as I have a friend who shares broadband with her neighbour.

aliasojo

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I've moved this over to the Techie Board as it's more of a discussion about Sky technical matters than a vent about poor service etc.

shelly

Searcher wrote:

My electrical knowledge far exceeds changing a plug or at least I hope it does lol I'm an electrician
You're 100% correct in saying it's to do with the phases. :T
It's probable that 2 different houses are on different phases as each house uses one phase of a 3 phase system.
Without getting too technical the voltage across one phase to either neutral or earth = 220V but the voltage across 2 phases = 415V.
under normal fault free conditions running 2 boxes in different houses shouldn't be a problem but if one of the boxes were to develop a fault then you could end up with a potentially serious situation.

You're an electrician but obviously know nothing about how to do this "scam" on sky. Iv'e seen it in action and can promise you there are NO cables running from one house to the other. So if one box was to develop a fault there wouldn't be a situation.....serious or otherwise.

scheming_gypsy

wouldn't you just give your second card and box to a friend who's cancelled their subscription but still got a dish?