Sky multi room package

shelly

scheming_gypsy wrote:

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

Hallelujah!!!!! Someone got it in the end....:D


So simple to do, no cables needed.

I'd like to do it but way too paranoid about getting caught.

scheming_gypsy

makes you wonder why people have to go all technical, hate to see them try and make a sandwich.

shelly

scheming_gypsy wrote:

makes you wonder why people have to go all technical, hate to see them try and make a sandwich.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

stugib

scheming_gypsy wrote:

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

shelly wrote:

Hallelujah!!!!! Someone got it in the end....:D

So simple to do, no cables needed.

Ok I assumed, based on the fact there was NO MENTION of the other neighbour having a separate dish, that the OP was talking about sharing 2 boxes between one dish. Especially as I replied when Fenris was talking about sharing 4 houses between a 4-way LNB. So given the fact this could be potentially dangerous you thought the best reponse was to assure people it wasn't a problem and be all cryptic to look clever?

FYI, both boxes have to be plugged into the SAME phone line otherwise you'll be charged for 2 subs, so unless you trust your neighbour enough that he'll not use your line, and physically get your phone line to your neighbours house then it's not a great solution.

shelly

stugib wrote:

Ok I assumed, based on the fact there was NO MENTION of the other neighbour having a separate dish, that the OP was talking about sharing 2 boxes between one dish. Especially as I replied when Fenris was talking about sharing 4 houses between a 4-way LNB. So given the fact this could be potentially dangerous you thought the best reponse was to assure people it wasn't a problem and be all cryptic to look clever?

FYI, both boxes have to be plugged into the SAME phone line otherwise you'll be charged for 2 subs, so unless you trust your neighbour enough that he'll not use your line, and physically get your phone line to your neighbours house then it's not a great solution.

Iv'e just read back through my posts. I wasn't being cryptic at all. I clearly said "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" Then I said "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" Whats cryptic about that??

You are right that both boxes need to be on the same phone line, but they don't have to be 24/7. The person I know just gives the 2nd box to the friend with the sub every so often when they are away for the weekend so sky can download the info from it.

stugib

shelly wrote:

Iv'e just read back through my posts. I wasn't being cryptic at all. I clearly said "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" Then I said "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" Whats cryptic about that??

I explained how there was a physical connection between the 2 houses (the dish cables). Searcher gave you a more detailed response about how this could create a high voltage.

You had at least 3 opportunities to say 'this is how it works' but just decided to leave it as 'there are no cables', including, unless I'm going completely mad, a post which has now disappeared where you said 'I promise you there is no electrical connection'.

If you don't want to risk talking about scamming Sky then fine, but knowing you're talking about something different from everyone else and then disagreeing with them waiting for a 'big reveal' is just wasting everyone's time.

shelly

stugib wrote:

I explained how there was a physical connection between the 2 houses (the dish cables). Searcher gave you a more detailed response about how this could create a high voltage.

You had at least 3 opportunities to say 'this is how it works' but just decided to leave it as 'there are no cables', including, unless I'm going completely mad, a post which has now disappeared where you said 'I promise you there is no electrical connection'.

If you don't want to risk talking about scamming Sky then fine, but knowing you're talking about something different from everyone else and then disagreeing with them waiting for a 'big reveal' is just wasting everyone's time.

Well I thought we were talking about how to get the scam to work. Everyone else was talking about the same thing just getting it wrong. And no I didn't want to say about how to do it but soon as someone else pointed out how to do it I figured it was out so why not.

I'm not posting on this thread anymore as I feel its getting out of hand with you said he said they said. It'll just go round in circles. You all know how to do it now so no more needs to be said.

Searcher

shelly wrote:

Well I thought we were talking about how to get the scam to work. Everyone else was talking about the same thing just getting it wrong. And no I didn't want to say about how to do it but soon as someone else pointed out how to do it I figured it was out so why not.

I'm not posting on this thread anymore as I feel its getting out of hand with you said he said they said. It'll just go round in circles. You all know how to do it now so no more needs to be said.

Nobody is disputing if the scam works or not but stugib and myself were merely pointing out the possible dangers of it.
The fact that you cannot see the physical connection does not mean it isn't there.
Sky is not a wireless system so therefore there MUST be a connection somewhere. I haven't seen a multiroom setup but I'm assuming that like SKY+ there are 2 cables running from the minidish so the physical connection would be at the dish itself and out of sight.
There isn't an elecrtical connection between the 2 houses but there is a connection via the co-axial cable, not normally a problem under normal running conditions but if one of the boxes were to develop a fault causing the case of the digibox or the co-ax connector to become live then you could have a potentially fatal situation in both houses.

scheming_gypsy

Searcher wrote:

I haven't seen a multiroom setup but I'm assuming that like SKY+ there are 2 cables running from the minidish so the physical connection would be at the dish itself and out of sight.
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you just get a third cable coming out and into the second receiver box.

stugib

Searcher wrote:

The fact that you cannot see the physical connection does not mean it isn't there.

I think you missed the punchline Searcher - the reason Shelly was adamant there was no connection is because they were assuming the neighbour had their own dish, so the 'scam' would be - order multiroom and get another card, use the 2nd receiver in the 2nd house connected to the 2nd dish. To get around the fact both boxes need to be connected to the same phone line one neighbour then has to drop their receiver off to their neighbour once in a while to call back to Sky. I don't know what Sky's threshold is before they assume the box isn't connected so I don't know how long this would work for.