Sky Multiroom from another house?

macman

micky007 wrote: »

Hey Macman.

Thanks for your response, Actually thinking about it I'm not sure what your saying is true. When i got Sky Multiroom installed at my previous address the sky multiroom box was only connected to a telephone line for 3 months, after 3 months the landlord disconnected the telephone line so that i couldnt make any charges on the phone line. I had Sky Multiroom for 1yr 1 month and the box was only conncted to a phone line for just 3 of those months. Had no problems whle using the box, just the only thing i couldn't do was watch box office films etc... as it requires a phone line be connected.

What you got away with and what the contract says, are different things-a permanent connection is contractually required with Multiroom.
If it wasn't, people would be splicing and dicing their Multiroom subs up all over the place, sharing with neighbours etc.

superbigal36

I have posted before that I have never had a phoneline connected and never had a problem. This is despite 3 separate multi-room installations. It really must be the luck of the draw. The last engineer did not even leave me the self install phone-line let alone do the 300m (Exagerating) trek to get from the box to my only BT socket.
That engineer did say the phoneline requirement was most wanted for the purpose that Sky get payments from BT in lieu of people using the line to order stuff. Probably baloney but thats what he said.
I do know the phoneline is not used for software updates etc to boxes. That is done via the dish to box.
As I have a massive length of loose phone cable to hand I do connect the boxes adhoc for a few hours every few months. I have no idea if that helps or not.

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superbigal36 wrote: »

I do connect the boxes adhoc for a few hours every few months.

The box will automatically perform a callback when reconnected to a phone line.
Why not just keep it permanently connected? It costs nothing.

lee111s

No but it often looks horrendous trailing a wire across your room if the box isn't in the same place as the telephone socket.

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lee111s wrote: »

No but it often looks horrendous trailing a wire across your room if the box isn't in the same place as the telephone socket.

Pin it to the skirting or run it under the carpet.

lee111s

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Pin it to the skirting or run it under the carpet.

Still looks unsightly against the skirting board.

The other annoying thing is you have to pay to have extensions in each room you want sky, again cables running around the outside of the home look poo!

macman

No worse surely than a TV and a Sky box in each room though?

lee111s

Horses for courses.

TadleyBaggie

I've had one or multiroom subs going for a number of years, a few years back I got a warning letter about of of the boxes not "calling home". When checked the socket it was plugged into was indeed faulty, fixed it and all was well. However last year I removed all extensions from the master socket (to improve the s/n figure for broadband), so no boxes are now calling back and I have yet to be warned for it. Wouldn't bother me if they did, I'm seriously thinking of moving to Freesat anyway,

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TadleyBaggie wrote: »

I have yet to be warned for it. Wouldn't bother me if they did, I'm seriously thinking of moving to Freesat anyway,

If they have already warned you, the next stage is to actually bill you the full cost of an extra subscription. If you're going to Freesat I'd be cancelling sooner rather than later if I were you...