Sky multi-room. Can be multihouse??!!

MajicMOLE

All I can say is when I moved I took the multiroom box with me, and used it for around 4 months till a decent virgin deal appeared. No letters sent to my parents, and sky weren't to know. However, as I/you would be breaching the Ts & Cs if they did find out then im sure they would charge you the full wack rather the £10 multiroom fee.

Hope this helps

chanz4

sky are getting hot on the callbacks

datimms

chanz4 wrote: »

sky are getting hot on the callbacks

There is a lot of heed around the net on this subject, but very few posts that say they've actually been stung by it. Logic would dictate that sky are hot on it, but the anecdotal evidence seems to point otherwise. Maybe if you subscribe to sports or the full-wack package they are more suspicious.

These days you can watch Sky Go over broadband or 3G, inclusive as part of your package. You can watch this from anywhere, on your laptop or even your mobile, download things to watch later, and connect your laptop to a TV. You can even watch sports and movies if your main subscription allows. How do sky draw the line between a rogue Multiroom subscription (which you pay £10/month for) and using Sky Go (which is almost as good but at no additional cost).

Anyway, I've disconnected my second Sky+ box from the phone line and will report back in a few months (I've had this connected for over 2 years previously).

About GPS: Even IF the new boxes had some kind of location tracking in them (which they don't!) how would they communicate their location back to Sky without a phone line or network connection? Sky are hardly going to put sim cards in each box. And what if you lived in a block of flats, your location would be the same as your neighbours'. An entire block could share a single package.

peachyprice

datimms wrote: »

There is a lot of heed around the net on this subject, but very few posts that say they've actually been stung by it.

I haven't been stung as such, but I did get a letter from Sky when we forgot to plug my daughters sky+ box back into the phone line after decorating, probably about 3 months later, so yes they definitley do check, how random it is I don't know.

macman

It works on the basis of the phone number of the line it's plugged into. If it's a different number, the ringback will fail.

spike7451

peachyprice wrote: »

I haven't been stung as such, but I did get a letter from Sky when we forgot to plug my daughters sky+ box back into the phone line after decorating, probably about 3 months later, so yes they definitley do check, how random it is I don't know.

Same as me & as an ex Sky engineer,I have been to loads of service calls because of multi- room callbacks failing.

mancitychick

wrightyholme wrote: »

We have a second sky plus box in the spare room. It has not been conected to a phone line for over 3 years with no complaints from sky.:j

Apart from on the installation day over 3 years ago, I have never had my sky box plugged into a phone line and it has never caused me a problem. Same with my Mums and the same at my Dads.

macman

mancitychick wrote: »

Apart from on the installation day over 3 years ago, I have never had my sky box plugged into a phone line and it has never caused me a problem. Same with my Mums and the same at my Dads.

It only matters if you subscribe to Multiroom. Not for single box installs. Contractually there is a 12m requirement on these, but it's not enforced.

miss_trust_2

macman wrote: »

It only matters if you subscribe to Multiroom. Not for single box installs. Contractually there is a 12m requirement on these, but it's not enforced.

Fraid to say it is, used to work for them (and dealt with this more than people think) but don't hold it against me

skyquestion_2

I am in a similar situation to others here. My Dad has a sky subscription. He has 2 working viewing cards, a brand new sky box which he just got this week, the sky box that was just replaced, AND a multiroom box that he has had for ages. I have recently moved into rented accommodation that has a dish and my Dad is happy to give me one of the viewing cards and one of the boxes (either the replaced box or the multiroom box). Having just read the messages here, I understand that the multiroom box does callbacks, but does anyone know if the older sky box that has just been replaced would also do callbacks? Thanks.