Multiroom and telephone extension

I understand I need to have a phone socket for the new box.

I don't have one in the room it is going into and want to avoid having to
put in an extention. but the bloke at Sky mentioned a wireless equivalent.

Can anyone point me towards such a gadget?

Am I right in thinking this is only needed for installation and won't affect
it after - so I could run a cable as a temporary measure??

Thanks

"Reg" wrote in message
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I understand I need to have a phone socket for the new box.

I don't have one in the room it is going into and want to avoid having to
put in an extention. but the bloke at Sky mentioned a wireless equivalent.

Can anyone point me towards such a gadget?

Am I right in thinking this is only needed for installation and won't
affect
it after - so I could run a cable as a temporary measure??

Thanks

I just had Sky+Multiroom installed at weekend, and the guy wanted to put
another socket in, all i dd was lay an extension cable round and he was
happy with that, then unplugged it after, he did say to leave it in for an
hour once a week though, so I wouldnt even worry about it, just do what i
did

andy

"Essex Computers" -dotcom wrote in message
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"Reg" wrote in message
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I understand I need to have a phone socket for the new box.

I don't have one in the room it is going into and want to avoid having to
put in an extention. but the bloke at Sky mentioned a wireless
equivalent.

Can anyone point me towards such a gadget?

Am I right in thinking this is only needed for installation and won't
affect
it after - so I could run a cable as a temporary measure??

Thanks

I just had Sky+Multiroom installed at weekend, and the guy wanted to put
another socket in, all i dd was lay an extension cable round and he was
happy with that, then unplugged it after, he did say to leave it in for an
hour once a week though, so I wouldnt even worry about it, just do what i
did



if you cant be arsed to do that maplin do a wireless telephone extender.
Its quite expensive though, about £70. From messages here, Sky do seem to
police the multiroom telephone requirement rigorously.

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"Essex Computers" -dotcom wrote in message
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"Reg" wrote in message
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I understand I need to have a phone socket for the new box.

I don't have one in the room it is going into and want to avoid having to
put in an extention. but the bloke at Sky mentioned a wireless
equivalent.

Can anyone point me towards such a gadget?

Am I right in thinking this is only needed for installation and won't
affect
it after - so I could run a cable as a temporary measure??

Thanks

I just had Sky+Multiroom installed at weekend, and the guy wanted to put
another socket in, all i dd was lay an extension cable round and he was
happy with that, then unplugged it after, he did say to leave it in for an
hour once a week though, so I wouldnt even worry about it, just do what i
did

andy



Thanks Andy, you rebel.

I think I'll do that and if they grumble I'll happily plug it in from time
to time.

Reg wrote:

I think I'll do that and if they grumble I'll happily plug it in from time
to time.

You will have to connect both boxes overnight at least once a month to
avoid problems.

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"Jomtien" wrote in message
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Reg wrote:

I think I'll do that and if they grumble I'll happily plug it in from time
to time.

You will have to connect both boxes overnight at least once a month to
avoid problems.

Does it detect a phone connection and call into Sky?

I've has Sky+ for ages and never noticed it 'phone home'

"Reg" wrote in message
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"Jomtien" wrote in message
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Reg wrote:

I think I'll do that and if they grumble I'll happily plug it in from
time
to time.

You will have to connect both boxes overnight at least once a month to
avoid problems.

Does it detect a phone connection and call into Sky?

I've has Sky+ for ages and never noticed it 'phone home'

Apparently its multiroom thats the key thing not Sky+. But given that it
would likely phone home in the 'wee small hours' how would you expect to
notice?

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Reg wrote:

You will have to connect both boxes overnight at least once a month to
avoid problems.

Does it detect a phone connection and call into Sky?

All boxes will attempt to phone home from time to time.
Only with multiroom is it important that this succeed. The attempts
get more and more frequent as time passes so an overnight connection
once or twice a month should do the trick.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

I have multiroom with both connected to the same telephone line. Just before
Christmas I had a new carpet fitted and had to disconnect the tv, sky etc. I
re-connected it all but didn't make a good connection with the phone lead.
Last week I got a letter from Sky advising me that the phone connection was
a condition of multiroom and if I didn't re-connect I would have to pay full
price instead of £10 pm. I traced the fault and re-connected phone lead. So
if you don't connect the phone line they have ways of finding out.


"Jomtien" wrote in message
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Reg wrote:

You will have to connect both boxes overnight at least once a month to
avoid problems.

Does it detect a phone connection and call into Sky?

All boxes will attempt to phone home from time to time.
Only with multiroom is it important that this succeed. The attempts
get more and more frequent as time passes so an overnight connection
once or twice a month should do the trick.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)