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    Good evening,

    I've had Sky Multiroom for about 6 months and I've now had a letter from them saying that it's not connected but when it was installed there was no phone line installed.

    Any ideas what this could be I thought that they could speak to the box through the satellite signals.

    I've got broadband but it's not the best because I struggle to use my iPad in where the sky box is and the signal is hit and miss.

    Hopefully someone will be able to clear this up.

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    Based on my own experience with them a few years ago - we got multi room on a free upgrade deal - as there's only me and the missus the spare box was put in the spare room and only used occasionally when we had guests - we got a letter like you've just had, followed every 2 weeks by more and more of them gradually getting more threatening - I kept calling them and explaining that the box was switched off at the mains as it was so rarely used and they were welcome to come and inspect it in my house without notice any time they wanted - that wasn't acceptable to them and the threats persisted - we ended up binning the multiroom and threw the spare box out just to get them to leave us alonne


    They send signals to the boxes telling them to phone home - newer boxes can communicate by Internet but the older ones like we had need to use phone lines

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    Default Re: Sky Multiroom

    You do not need phone line for multiroom just connect it to net.


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    Default Re: Sky Multiroom

    Quote Originally Posted by bobo06 View Post
    You do not need phone line for multiroom just connect it to net.
    And if it's one of the older (pre-hd?) boxes without an Ethernet port?

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    I don't know about that I share my skyboxes between 4 family members and we split the bill . My Old man has the sky plus box and I've never had a prob. When i took it out I told them I don't have a phone line they said pay 25 quid and you won't need it now that was a load of years ago 3 or 4 .


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    Pm realist ..

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