Is there a cheap way of getting sky in other rooms?

Terrysdelight

Hi

My son would like Sky in his bedroom, come to think of it, I wouldn't mind it either. Sky charge an extra £10 a month per room. Am I allowed to get someone in to tap into the orginal connection and spur off - is it possible even?

Many thanks
Terri

Inactive

You cannot " tap in " .. however you can run additional cables to your dish.

If your LNB on the dish has only one outlet, then that will need to be changed to a quad type ( 4 outlets )..plenty available on eBay.

lexie55_2

We bought a digisender from Argos a couple of years ago. Pleased with it, have since purchased additional ones from ebay at a fraction of price. Only thing is you cannot watch more than one satellite channel at once...

Terrysdelight

Inactive wrote: »

You cannot " tap in " .. however you can run additional cables to your dish.

If your LNB on the dish has only one outlet, then that will need to be changed to a quad type ( 4 outlets )..plenty available on eBay.

Thanks so much - checked on ebay - but before I clicked the buy it now button, just checked outside and there is already a 4 outlet LNB attached to the dish. Looks like I just need to run the cables and get another box.

Thanks again.

Inactive

Terrysdelight wrote: »

Thanks so much - checked on ebay - but before I clicked the buy it now button, just checked outside and there is already a 4 outlet LNB attached to the dish. Looks like I just need to run the cables and get another box.

Thanks again.

Indeed, a length of cable, 2 x " F " connectors, a few clips, a Sky Box..sorted.;)

vix2000

Sorry but how will that give you sky on the 2nd box? I have a second box in my bedroom wired from the lnb but you don't get sky on it.

dorien

dont know if this will help, but we have a lead from our RF out socket (on sky box) out the wall up into the loft, into the ariel booster in the loft, this distributes sky to ALL tv,s in the house. Get a remote control sender, and extra sky remote and you can change channels etc.

silvercar

if you run extra boxes off the sky dish, sky will charge you an extra £10 a month and require you to have all boxes linked to your landline. The DIY options suggsted above will merely do the engineers job for you/ them. Without paying sky for multi room, the boxes won't give you the facility to watch different sky channels on different sky boxes.

If you are happy to watch the same sky channel on both TVs you can run a digisend out of your sky box to a second TV, buy a magic eye and second remote control from Argos and you can change also operate the Sky box from the second TV.

mummyyummy_2

we bought this one http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5345911/Trail/searchtext%3EAUDIO+SENDER.htm but as above posters say, you can only watch the same channels on whichever tv's you decide to put it on. Very easy to install, just a matter of a couple of cables in/out of the sky box/extra tv..No extra money involved though for the sky part..means we can watch sky in bed and if you buy another sky remote you can change channels in the bedroom too. We've got sky+ and the plus part works too in the 2nd room.
xmyx

payless

silvercar wrote: »

if you run extra boxes off the sky dish, sky will charge you an extra £10 a month and require you to have all boxes linked to your landline. The DIY options suggsted above will merely do the engineers job for you/ them. Without paying sky for multi room, the boxes won't give you the facility to watch different sky channels on different sky boxes.

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Having an extra box direct from the dish/nb does not cost £10pm , but its having a 2nd subscription viewing card that does ,

for example I used to have a sky box upstairs (ebay) , as it was easier ( and cheaper) to wire it in to dish than to wire in the ariel .. this gave use some free extra channels also ( helped by an old sky card ) plus if we switched cards we could still watch the subscription channels upstairs ( not premium though), and of course all without the extra £10.

I've since fallen out with sky ( over poor c/s on broadband) and cancelled the lot, but still use the 2 boxes as "freeview"

vix2000

You can't switch cards anymore as the cards are paired to the box now.