Sky+ and mulitroom help please

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 12:27

Hi guys.

Going to get sky+ and Multiroom.
Couple of "hicups" on the Sky site when looking to order.

Problem 1) We need a total of 3 sky+ box's but on the sky website will only let you add 2 box's. is this the rules of sky+ ?
PS- we need sky+box for main room. then 2 other box's for other rooms.

problem 2) Although it may not be a problem. the sky+box in the living room will be connected to the phone line for the first 12 months. Do all the other box's have to be connected to a phone line also?

thanks if you can help.

andy ...

DavidMarq · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:19

1) You can have up to 4 Sky+ Boxes on one dish with an Octo LNB. You may have to phone Sky to place your order for 3 boxes if the Sky Site won't let you order more than 2.

2) All boxes on Multiroom must be connected to you telephone line at all times. Sky will do call backs to your boxes to make sure that this is the case. After threatening letters they will then charge you full price for the Multiroom boxes if you do not comply.

Alibaba99 · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:32

Sky uses the phone line check to ensure that all the boxes are in the same house and that you haven't sneakily let the neighbours have the boxes and share the cut price subscriptions. All the boxes must be on the same phone line as well, they cannot be split between multiple ones.

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:42

Alibaba99 said:
Sky uses the phone line check to ensure that all the boxes are in the same house and that you haven't sneakily let the neighbours have the boxes and share the cut price subscriptions. All the boxes must be on the same phone line as well, they cannot be split between multiple ones.

but i can use a phone phone extension to the same line right?

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:43

Alibaba99 said:
Sky uses the phone line check to ensure that all the boxes are in the same house and that you haven't sneakily let the neighbours have the boxes and share the cut price subscriptions. All the boxes must be on the same phone line as well, they cannot be split between multiple ones.

thanks Alibaba99

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:43

DavidMarq said:
1) You can have up to 4 Sky+ Boxes on one dish with an Octo LNB. You may have to phone Sky to place your order for 3 boxes if the Sky Site won't let you order more than 2.

2) All boxes on Multiroom must be connected to you telephone line at all times. Sky will do call backs to your boxes to make sure that this is the case. After threatening letters they will then charge you full price for the Multiroom boxes if you do not comply.

thanks also

e36Adz · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:47

movingtables said:
Hi guys.

Going to get sky+ and Multiroom.
Couple of "hicups" on the Sky site when looking to order.

Problem 1) We need a total of 3 sky+ box's but on the sky website will only let you add 2 box's. is this the rules of sky+ ?
PS- we need sky+box for main room. then 2 other box's for other rooms.

problem 2) Although it may not be a problem. the sky+box in the living room will be connected to the phone line for the first 12 months. Do all the other box's have to be connected to a phone line also?

thanks if you can help.

andy ...

1) You can order 3 sky+ boxes, just ring them up to order. It costs £10 a month extra for any additional box, so you will be paying £20 a month extra for multiroom.

2) They will want all the boxes connected to your phone line.

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:55

thanks everyone.

im gonna hold on to the 13th feb as theres some secret offers comming out (wink wink)

also people on lower packages wont have to pay the sky+ sub soon eithe as sky will only be issuing sky+ or/and sky HD box's.

dannyjo22 · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:58

I need sky plus from march onwards whats the secret deal?

JonB · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:59

With multi room do you get your full subscription in both rooms. I.e would we get all the sports and movies? What about premiership plus, which we subscribe too?

Alibaba99 · 29 Jan 2007 at 19:05

Don't know about Prem Plus but you certainly get the full subscription that is on the primary box on all the other boxes for only £10 extra. Hence the reason for having all boxes on a single phone line. After installation of multiroom it is possible to put one of the boxes into a neighbours house, add some new cable and then share the full subscription for £25/month. The phone line check makes this rather harder.

Tesla · 29 Jan 2007 at 19:20

You can have loads of Sky+ boxes off of one dish using a quattro LNB and multiswitch.

All boxes need to be permanently connected to the same phone line at ALL times with multi-room otherwise they WILL charge you full subs on each box!

norm · 29 Jan 2007 at 19:27

Alibaba99 said:
After installation of multiroom it is possible to put one of the boxes into a neighbours house, add some new cable and then share the full subscription for £25/month. The phone line check makes this rather harder.

VoIP is a possibility, but very few adaptors handle modem traffic properly.

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 19:31

dannyjo22 said:
I need sky plus from march onwards whats the secret deal?

according to avforums ect in februrary they are going to be offering "something" free for 6 months and also from feb 13th onwards no matter what package you are on sky+ will not be any extra.
I suppose this is because you can get PVR freeview box's these days so they had to abolish the charge.

dannyjo22 · 29 Jan 2007 at 21:25

movingtables said:
according to avforums ect in februrary they are going to be offering "something" free for 6 months and also from feb 13th onwards no matter what package you are on sky+ will not be any extra.
I suppose this is because you can get PVR freeview box's these days so they had to abolish the charge.

Thanks I dont move in til the end of march so that deal would be much better for me. I had sky plus before but cancelled it due to homelessness

Have been looking for deals, didnt fancy the £99 and £60 Installation.

weringo · 29 Jan 2007 at 21:36

movingtables said:
thanks everyone.

im gonna hold on to the 13th feb as theres some secret offers comming out (wink wink)

also people on lower packages wont have to pay the sky+ sub soon eithe as sky will only be issuing sky+ or/and sky HD box's.

Sky HD at no extra cost?

movingtables · 29 Jan 2007 at 23:58

weringo said:
Sky HD at no extra cost?

would'nt that be splendid !

DavidMarq · 30 Jan 2007 at 18:45

Alibaba99 said:
Don't know about Prem Plus but you certainly get the full subscription that is on the primary box on all the other boxes for only £10 extra. Hence the reason for having all boxes on a single phone line. After installation of multiroom it is possible to put one of the boxes into a neighbours house, add some new cable and then share the full subscription for £25/month. The phone line check makes this rather harder.

Prem Plus subscription also works on multiroom boxes, Setanta Sports however does not as it is not owned by Sky. You would need a Setanta Sports subscription for each box you wish to view it on.

AFAIK due to Setanta taking some Premiership games next season Prem Plus will no longer be available and all Sky Premiership football will be on either Sky Sports 1 or 2.