Telewest to Sky - phone socket required?

Afternoon.

Had a search through the group but couldn't find anything definite.

I'm currently on Telewest for tv/phone and net but I want to get HD
since the telly can cope. Telewest only has one HD channel but Sky
have more so I'm thinking about moving the tv only to Sky and keeping
the phone and net as it is.

I've seen in various places that Sky boxes need a phone connection to
work, is this the case with Sky HD?

If so, does it have to be a BT line or could my Telewest line be used?

I don't really want to run another cable round the room since the TV
is the opposite end from the phone socket and we decorated last year
so don't fancy having to redo any of that either!

TIA

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Doug
"Doug's cool. He's metal " - Fnook
Ignore the old spamtrap work address; mail me on: doug at fruitloaf
dot net

Had a search through the group but couldn't find anything definite.

I'm currently on Telewest for tv/phone and net but I want to get HD
since the telly can cope. Telewest only has one HD channel but Sky
have more so I'm thinking about moving the tv only to Sky and keeping
the phone and net as it is.

I've seen in various places that Sky boxes need a phone connection to
work, is this the case with Sky HD?

If so, does it have to be a BT line or could my Telewest line be used?

I don't really want to run another cable round the room since the TV
is the opposite end from the phone socket and we decorated last year
so don't fancy having to redo any of that either!


Doesn't matter who you're telephone provider is - as long as the box can
call home and can identify you, i.e., you have to have CLID disabled so they
know its you who's calling.

Tom Bradbury wrote:
Had a search through the group but couldn't find anything definite.

I'm currently on Telewest for tv/phone and net but I want to get HD
since the telly can cope. Telewest only has one HD channel but Sky
have more so I'm thinking about moving the tv only to Sky and keeping
the phone and net as it is.

I've seen in various places that Sky boxes need a phone connection to
work, is this the case with Sky HD?

If so, does it have to be a BT line or could my Telewest line be
used? I don't really want to run another cable round the room since
the TV
is the opposite end from the phone socket and we decorated last year
so don't fancy having to redo any of that either!


Doesn't matter who you're telephone provider is - as long as the box
can call home and can identify you, i.e., you have to have CLID
disabled so they know its you who's calling.


Sky only really police multi-room, though is best to let Sky installer
plug box into the phone line and then remove it when he has gone.

It can be any working fixed landline, when we had Sky Digital installed
1 Oct 1998 we had a cable phone line, it was no problem at all.

On Apr 9, 4:50 pm, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
wrote:
Tom Bradbury wrote:
Had a search through the group but couldn't find anything definite.

I'm currently on Telewest for tv/phone and net but I want to get HD
since the telly can cope. Telewest only has one HD channel but Sky
have more so I'm thinking about moving the tv only to Sky and keeping
the phone and net as it is.

I've seen in various places that Sky boxes need a phone connection to
work, is this the case with Sky HD?

If so, does it have to be a BT line or could my Telewest line be
used? I don't really want to run another cable round the room since
the TV
is the opposite end from the phone socket and we decorated last year
so don't fancy having to redo any of that either!

Doesn't matter who you're telephone provider is - as long as the box
can call home and can identify you, i.e., you have to have CLID
disabled so they know its you who's calling.

Sky only really police multi-room, though is best to let Sky installer
plug box into the phone line and then remove it when he has gone.

It can be any working fixed landline, when we had Sky Digital installed
1 Oct 1998 we had a cable phone line, it was no problem at all.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks for the replies so far. Will the installer run a new phone line
from the phone socket to the box? If so, I can just get him to not
attach it to the wall then remove it once he's gone?

Thanks again.

--
Doug
"Doug's cool. He's metal " - Fnook
Ignore the old spamtrap work address; mail me on: doug at fruitloaf
dot net

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:38:04 +0100, Owain
mused:

Dougman wrote:
Thanks for the replies so far. Will the installer run a new phone line
from the phone socket to the box?

Not if there's a phone socket already there. Sky installers don't do
anything they don't have to.

If there isn't, he'll probably give you an extension lead of the very
cheapest quality.

No, he'll staple across skirtings, doors and walls with medium quality
cable actually.

Still don't see the need to unplug the box as sonn as the installer
has gone though.
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Regards,
Stuart.