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It costs an extra £10 on your subscription to activate another sky receiver for another room in your house. This must be connected to a telephone line otherwise they charge the full subscription ie £85 for two subscriptions! They argue that if not plugged in you could set the receiver up at a neighbours house and both receive sky for £52.50 total (Full Package). What a good idea and thanks to sky for the suggestion.
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Technicly, as Sky Plus is supplied with a 4 way LNB, you could group buy for four houses!
Sky's such a rip-off.
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I don't know if this was just a scare story put out by Sky, but there is supposedly also a safety issue about doing that - basically joining two house's electrical rings together=potential for big bang.
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As long as the house's are on the same phase it should be alright but DONT try it
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I don't know if this was just a scare story put out by Sky, but there is supposedly also a safety issue about doing that - basically joining two house's electrical rings together=potential for big bang.
Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang.
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Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang.
My electrical knowledge extends to changing a plug, but surely they are physically joined by the fact you've got a wire going from one box in one house to the dish and then to another box in the second house? Read it on the DigitalSpy forum, whose members aren't normally Sky's biggest fans and now hawkwinddotcom mentioned it, yes it was something to do with the phases.
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My electrical knowledge extends to changing a plug, but surely they are physically joined by the fact you've got a wire going from one box in one house to the dish and then to another box in the second house? Read it on the DigitalSpy forum, whose members aren't normally Sky's biggest fans and now hawkwinddotcom mentioned it, yes it was something to do with the phases.
My electrical knowledge far exceeds changing a plug or at least I hope it does lol I'm an electrician
You're 100% correct in saying it's to do with the phases.
It's probable that 2 different houses are on different phases as each house uses one phase of a 3 phase system.
Without getting too technical the voltage across one phase to either neutral or earth = 220V but the voltage across 2 phases = 415V.
under normal fault free conditions running 2 boxes in different houses shouldn't be a problem but if one of the boxes were to develop a fault then you could end up with a potentially serious situation.
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Interesting as I have a friend who shares broadband with her neighbour.
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***Board Guide Note***
I've moved this over to the Techie Board as it's more of a discussion about Sky technical matters than a vent about poor service etc.
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wouldn't you just give your second card and box to a friend who's cancelled their subscription but still got a dish?
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wouldn't you just give your second card and box to a friend who's cancelled their subscription but still got a dish?
Hallelujah!!!!! Someone got it in the end....
So simple to do, no cables needed.
I'd like to do it but way too paranoid about getting caught.
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makes you wonder why people have to go all technical, hate to see them try and make a sandwich.
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makes you wonder why people have to go all technical, hate to see them try and make a sandwich.
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wouldn't you just give your second card and box to a friend who's cancelled their subscription but still got a dish?
Hallelujah!!!!! Someone got it in the end....
So simple to do, no cables needed.
Ok I assumed, based on the fact there was NO MENTION of the other neighbour having a separate dish, that the OP was talking about sharing 2 boxes between one dish. Especially as I replied when Fenris was talking about sharing 4 houses between a 4-way LNB. So given the fact this could be potentially dangerous you thought the best reponse was to assure people it wasn't a problem and be all cryptic to look clever?
FYI, both boxes have to be plugged into the SAME phone line otherwise you'll be charged for 2 subs, so unless you trust your neighbour enough that he'll not use your line, and physically get your phone line to your neighbours house then it's not a great solution.
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Ok I assumed, based on the fact there was NO MENTION of the other neighbour having a separate dish, that the OP was talking about sharing 2 boxes between one dish. Especially as I replied when Fenris was talking about sharing 4 houses between a 4-way LNB. So given the fact this could be potentially dangerous you thought the best reponse was to assure people it wasn't a problem and be all cryptic to look clever?
FYI, both boxes have to be plugged into the SAME phone line otherwise you'll be charged for 2 subs, so unless you trust your neighbour enough that he'll not use your line, and physically get your phone line to your neighbours house then it's not a great solution.
Iv'e just read back through my posts. I wasn't being cryptic at all. I clearly said "Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang" Then I said "Iv'e seen it in action and can promise you there are NO cables running from one house to the other. So if one box was to develop a fault there wouldn't be a situation.....serious or otherwise" Whats cryptic about that??
You are right that both boxes need to be on the same phone line, but they don't have to be 24/7. The person I know just gives the 2nd box to the friend with the sub every so often when they are away for the weekend so sky can download the info from it.
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Iv'e just read back through my posts. I wasn't being cryptic at all. I clearly said "Yes this is a scare tactic by sky. You don't have to join 2 houses electrical rings so there is no potential for a big bang" Then I said "Iv'e seen it in action and can promise you there are NO cables running from one house to the other. So if one box was to develop a fault there wouldn't be a situation.....serious or otherwise" Whats cryptic about that??
I explained how there was a physical connection between the 2 houses (the dish cables). Searcher gave you a more detailed response about how this could create a high voltage.
You had at least 3 opportunities to say 'this is how it works' but just decided to leave it as 'there are no cables', including, unless I'm going completely mad, a post which has now disappeared where you said 'I promise you there is no electrical connection'.
If you don't want to risk talking about scamming Sky then fine, but knowing you're talking about something different from everyone else and then disagreeing with them waiting for a 'big reveal' is just wasting everyone's time.
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I explained how there was a physical connection between the 2 houses (the dish cables). Searcher gave you a more detailed response about how this could create a high voltage.
You had at least 3 opportunities to say 'this is how it works' but just decided to leave it as 'there are no cables', including, unless I'm going completely mad, a post which has now disappeared where you said 'I promise you there is no electrical connection'.
If you don't want to risk talking about scamming Sky then fine, but knowing you're talking about something different from everyone else and then disagreeing with them waiting for a 'big reveal' is just wasting everyone's time.
Well I thought we were talking about how to get the scam to work. Everyone else was talking about the same thing just getting it wrong. And no I didn't want to say about how to do it but soon as someone else pointed out how to do it I figured it was out so why not.
I'm not posting on this thread anymore as I feel its getting out of hand with you said he said they said. It'll just go round in circles. You all know how to do it now so no more needs to be said.