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Flightrisker 15 Nov 2005 14:51:48 18,139 posts
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Apologises for reposting this as a seperate topic to the Sky + thread but I need to find this out soon as the Sky + peeps are coming a week tomorrow so i have to get this sorted out.
Again, sorry if this pisses people off

Flightrisker wrote:
My Sky+ is arriving soon and I have a technical quetion for you technodudes and dudettes.

I'm getting Sky + Multiroom, regular box in the sittingroom for the parents, Sky + box in the den (converted garage at the end of the garden).

Now here's the problem. There's no phoneline in the Den. They say they won't install it without one (what are they for? Sky claim it's for the TV listings but would that not be done through the digital signal? I think they just want me to vote in their Sky News polls, bastards).

Anyway, the Den (I don't know who named it that? I'd have called it Zanzibarland) has no physhical connection to the house meaning i can either

a) Run a phoneline through the hall, kitchen, out through the wall someway (can't see the parents being too happy with drilling) and down the garden. This sounds a bit dodgy to me.

b) Get a new phone point put in, probably need to be a whole new point as I can't see them being able to run one down off the main line.

or

c) Not sure if this would even work, or if it makes sense, but can I get some kind of wireless router thingy and plug it in up i the house, and have the reciever in Zanzibarland?

Thanks for any advice.

ssuellid 15 Nov 2005 14:53:19 19,142 posts
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Replied in your other thread - before you quoted yourself.

Flightrisker 15 Nov 2005 14:54:39 18,139 posts
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Shit, sorry, and thanks!

Is there a way I can delete this?

ssuellid 15 Nov 2005 15:04:40 19,142 posts
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Deleting the first post does it.

But probably worth keeping for someone with a better idea.

Mike_Hunt 15 Nov 2005 15:32:48 23,524 posts
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I've not got a better idea, but I've got a question.

Next door have Sky, could I not just use their dish rather than have one stuck on my house too?

Would Sky be cool with this if the neighbours gave permission?

[MH]

ScoutTech 15 Nov 2005 15:42:38 2,428 posts
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I don't know if Sky+ is any different from normal Sky but yes you can get along without a phone line. Our installers were absolute numpties (only found out after the fact) and we had great problems when we first got Sky as it it would tie up the phone line for hours on end. Sky wouldn't do anything as they said it was an installer fault, the installers kept sending random people round who either swapped a box out, looked round on the roof at the wire or said that we needed to run a 20 meter cable from our other phone line but they weren't allowed to do that. Problem never got solved so we unplugged it from the back.

It does mean that we can't order films or do any interactive doodahs but at 50p a millisecond never really felt inclined to.

In case anyone was interested I went up on the roof & I think I traced the fault down to them having wrapped the wire round the chimmney stack 3 times, pulled on it to get some slack, run it in guttering then let the great British weather take its toll. Sheathing was scrapped to non exsistence in places. Having looked again recently it has also been cut but I can't remember if an installer did this to fix it taking over the line or if it has rubbed through.