Getting Sky TV abroad

ABARKIE

Hi,

Why do you not subscribe to Polsat?

They carry quite a bit of football.

Other football / sport providers are available

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=781401&highlight=PREMIERE

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=664771&highlight=PREMIERE

Hope this helps

Inactive

Arfhurdaly wrote: »

So if i had multi-room in the uk, could i take the multi-room box and card abroad and it would work?

3m is a massive dish, 100kg in weight too. I was told the same, but live in a flat so its impossible.

I really miss sky sports, not expat bars here either.

No, if you disconnect a multi - room box from the phone line for any period of time, you will have Sky breathing down your neck, read your contract.;)

Arfhurdaly

Polsat has polish commentary. More a rugby fan than anything else.

jno

OK, I live in Austria and have Sky TV working here no problem - Poland not too far away. If you have a Sky card in your box you will probably be able to get Channel 4 and Channel 5 with a 60cm dish. Problems start happening when you want BBC and ITV channels.

Technical stuff: basically Sky TV is sent down from orbital position 28.2 degrees east where your current Sky dish is pointing. From this position you will actually be receiving signals from several satellites and the problem occurs with the satellite called "Astra 2D" where BBC and ITV channels live as the beam sent down to earth is tightly focussed on the UK, France and Germany.

Basically, at the moment (June 2008), Channel 4, Channel 5, E4 (Ireland), More 4 (Ireland), most Sky channels (if you have a subscription). Anything which you have to plug the phone line for you can forget, also never call Sky when you are abroad and your card has to be registered at a UK address.

There is far too much to write here but visit www.astra2d.com for more info on this :-) Good luck!

OnurB

hi

is there anyone who lives in Turkey and has SKY .Pref living in İstanbul. i am moving there and moving to an estate where there are 4 main satelite dishes each pointing a different area. Does the dish have to be 3m long or with the right signal can you still get the viewing from a 2 metre dish ?

Please can someone help i really want to find a way to get SKY channels or at least as many english channels as poss

Any advice for istanbul would help?? :j

Leigh-Anne_60

Onur

I dont know about Istanbul - But certainly down south in Marmaris a 3 metre dish is required

LA

fifeken

I know this is an old thread that's just been resurrected, but hammy the hammer mentioned above about using a Slingbox. I have just got one of these (last week) and can confirm they work extremely well. Anything on my home tv system can be viewed wherever I am in the world over the internet. It relies on you a having a "home" for it in the UK but if you can do that you're quids in.

michaelsmyth

Whats the point of beating around the bush, you can get companies like Sky cards to provide you with full Sky TV anywhere.

Thats what I did anyway.

Never looked back, I am enjoying Sky TV in portugal.

I think the web address is;

www dot skycards dot eu

fifeken

michaelsmyth wrote: »

Whats the point of beating around the bush, you can get companies like Sky cards to provide you with full Sky TV anywhere.

Thats what I did anyway.

Never looked back, I am enjoying Sky TV in portugal.

I think the web address is;

www dot skycards dot eu

Don't feed the troll.

tjohnr

Arfhurdaly wrote: »

Hi

I am going to move to Poland soon for 2 years, and i want to know how i get sky tv abroad.

Can i use my old sky box, and just get a viewing card?

Are there any companies which specialise in this?

Regards,

Arfhur

Hello Arfurdaly,

Option1.
We are in Fethiye SW Turkey. We have a 3M dish to receive SKY. Low loss cable. PACE box on Multi room subscription with a telephone dialler to dial the UK when SKY probes the box.

Option2.
Alternatively leave your SKY box in the UK with a Broadband connection close by on a fixed IP address. It is possible to pay extra for a Fixed IP address. Buy a SLING box this can transmit the SKY picture down the Internet to your hopefully broadband connection abroad.

If your IP address is NOT Static which is the norm then you can subscribe to a service which can report the latest IP address. You will need to leave a PC/Laptop connected to the Internet with the SKY box. The PC/Laptop can then report your IP address to the provider service which you can also see abroad. Your can set the Slingbox up to probe the provider service. In other words the Sky signal can be routed via this service in order for you to receive SKY.

It all sounds complicated but go for a fixed IP address if you use the Slingbox idea.

John