Sharing a Sky Aerial

mathewtjones

Hi all,

My father just told me his neighbour is getting Sky installed and has asked to be connected through our aerial. In principle it would be fine but it sounds a bit suspect first off.

Does anyone know if Sky would connect 2 separate homes via the same aerial? We live in a 1st floor maisonette and it is the home below that would be getting Sky if that makes any difference.

Thanks Guys and girls

iniltous

Sounds odd to me, if your fathers Sky dish has a quad LNB , if he ever wanted multi room, and part of the existing LNB , the thing on the end or the arm of the dish, was used to give someone else service , he wouldn't be able to get it (well not easily) and if the LNB went faulty who is responsible, him or the neighbour sharing his dish ?, I'm surprised Sky would even suggest this, if they want to fit a communal dish for the entire building , fine , it wouldn't be on your wall , but not service two people from one dish , I would think a polite refusal may be required.
Perhaps what Sky really want is to put another dish up near your existing dish , so on your wall, as a dish would be to low to the ground if fitted on the ground floor neighbours wall, where passers by may interfere with it

jem16

mathewtjones wrote: »

Hi all,

My father just told me his neighbour is getting Sky installed and has asked to be connected through our aerial. In principle it would be fine but it sounds a bit suspect first off.

Does anyone know if Sky would connect 2 separate homes via the same aerial? We live in a 1st floor maisonette and it is the home below that would be getting Sky if that makes any difference.

Thanks Guys and girls

Do not agree in any shape or form to this.

teddysmum

The fact that he refers to a Sky aerial is suspect. He may have 'a mate' who wants to linkup a bought in Sky box to your dish hoping to steal your service. (I am aware that you need an enabled card in your box, but they may not).

glentoran99

teddysmum wrote: »

The fact that he refers to a Sky aerial is suspect. He may have 'a mate' who wants to linkup a bought in Sky box to your dish hoping to steal your service. (I am aware that you need an enabled card in your box, but they may not).

ways round that

teddysmum

glentoran99 wrote: »

ways round that

...so even more suspect.

iltisman

If we are talking about just sharing the dish it will not work reliably as the box switches polarisation of the dish for some channels.

Owain_Moneysaver

Supplying multiple houses from one LNB (dish) is not advisable as there can be problems with electrical isolation and earthing between the two houses, which will probably have a different mains supply.

Particular care has to be taken in installing communal aerial and satellite systems.

In any event a Sky + box will take two of the four connections available on a typical LNB which means that if either house wants an additional connection for another room at a later date, it won't be available.

teddysmum

It's odd that the person wants to share, as Sky give the box, dish and installation free, with your subscription.

jem16

iltisman wrote: »

If we are talking about just sharing the dish it will not work reliably as the box switches polarisation of the dish for some channels.

How does that work then with a multiroom sub with each box watching different channels at the same time?

teddysmum wrote: »

It's odd that the person wants to share, as Sky give the box, dish and installation free, with your subscription.

I would guess that the line of sight on the lower flat may not be quite as good as from the upper flat so they want to use the dish on the upper flat. Does seem a bit suspect though.

macman

If he connects up to your aerial then he won't be getting any Sky service on it at all. No Sky installer would carry out such a dish install, as sharing the service across 2 households is a breach of the T&C's