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Hi guys

just upgraded sky to hd package and was offered multi room offer but we cant have telephone wires going to the room because it looks a mess and they said you cant have it without being connected to a phone line, seems stupid to me as loads dont have land line

anyway what would be the cheapest way to get either some kind of recording device with more channels or a way to get iplayer/ 4od netflix/ lovefilm etc upstairs in the bed room with no wires ( someone in the house just goes nuts at any sign of wires so no ethernet or phone wires)

is there any cheap solutions ?

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  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 30 December 2012 at 9:21PM
    Broadband is delivered via phone lines, how are you connecting at the moment?
    If you want multiroom you'd have to have a satellite cable coming in.
    You can get homeplug style telephone line extenders and the like to reduce the wiring required.

    e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/RTX-WIRELESS-PHONEJACK-Wireless-Phone/dp/B000NJQHL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356898838&sr=8-1

    and for the ethernet:-

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-PA211KIT-200Mbps-Powerline-Ethernet/dp/B004INVKP4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1356898897&sr=1-1
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • Wires can be buried in the wall or hidden in conduit.

    There is no way of getting a service to another TV without wires of some sort. If you get a TV sender, you would still need a co-ax cable for the magic eye.

    How does your 'someone' in the house manage with the wires behind the TV at the moment?
    "There are not enough superlatives in the English language to describe a 'Princess Coronation' locomotive in full cry. We shall never see their like again". O S Nock
  • won1888
    won1888 Posts: 76 Forumite
    I recently installed the RTX wireless phone sockets Penrhyn mentioned. Cost me £80 for 3 rooms and less than 5 mins to install them all.
  • its probably too late for multi room now, just cant be having a phone wire or a ethernet cable from downstairs to upstairs, it will get ripped out in 5 minutes by someone with OCD for that kind of thing

    what I mean is something like a wireless media streamer like xbox, read blue rays also stream such things or some of them do, just needs to be wireless
  • won1888
    won1888 Posts: 76 Forumite
    edited 31 December 2012 at 12:17AM
    BigDebtBoy wrote: »
    its probably too late for multi room now, just cant be having a phone wire or a ethernet cable from downstairs to upstairs, it will get ripped out in 5 minutes by someone with OCD for that kind of thing

    what I mean is something like a wireless media streamer like xbox, read blue rays also stream such things or some of them do, just needs to be wireless


    What about an internet enabled blu ray player, there's a list in the link


    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blu+ray+player+wireless+enabled&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=1366&bih=640&tbm=shop
  • superbigal36
    superbigal36 Posts: 734 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 31 December 2012 at 10:52AM
    Just get the multiroom installer to "leave you" 20m or whatever of loose phone cable. Whether you ever plug in is down to you.
    All updates etc come via the dish and not the phone.
    I believe a huge amount of multirooms are not hard wired in albeit this forum will warn you against. For good reason if all is believed.

    PS my latest installer of a 3rd multiroom was actually grumping about the "occasional" difficult installation where the householder insisted on the cable being hard wired in.
    I have had no phone line connected for 5 years now without issue.
    I believe as constantly in touch with Sky re deals or upgrades etc that I have never had anyone suggesting I am connected incorrectly from the sky end.
    I am not sure if lucky or the Sky "Police" is a myth.
    For me the phone lines are all about marketing opportunities as opposed to policing multiroom con artists sharing with neighbours.

    I will prepare to be shot down by the experts but can only relate my experience and what all 4 installers I have had say.
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