Connecting another Sky Box with a new TV

smr · 24 Feb 2016 at 12:11

Hi all,

I've bought a new TV and have a spare sky box from a friend. I have a dish with a quad lnb.

How do I go about getting Sky set up on this other box so that I can watch what I want?

Jamesyboyjim · 24 Feb 2016 at 12:14

You'll have to take out a multiroom sub.

You may aswell just get sky to install the cabling if you can get them to do it for free while you are taking the multiroom sub, if not you'll have to run a coax cable from the lnb on the dish to the room you want the feed in.

smr · 24 Feb 2016 at 12:47

Thanks, a 5 or 6m coax lead off the bay for £5 and getting my gf's uncle to fit it would be cheaper than multiroom then.

picnic · 24 Feb 2016 at 12:57

Except without the MultiRoom subscription you'll not have Sky - just the free stuff. So as Jamesyboyjim says ,if you go for a multiroom subscription, you might as well get Sky to install it all properly as they'll do that for free.

smr · 24 Feb 2016 at 13:04

picnic said:
Except without the MultiRoom subscription you'll not have Sky - just the free stuff. So as Jamesyboyjim says ,if you go for a multiroom subscription, you might as well get Sky to install it all properly as they'll do that for free.

I've just this second got off the phone to someone who said exactly that. So if I want to watch Sky Sports up stairs in my man cave there's no other way around it than to have Sky Multiroom?

Would this 'magic eye' thing sky do not solve the problem?

Jano · 24 Feb 2016 at 14:16

Yes, but you then wouldn't need the additional box and you can only watch whatever is playing through the main sky box.