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BT Line/Sky Multi-Room
Dopple
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After years of having an NTL (Virgin) box in the living room and an additional box in a bedroom we decided to go over to Sky for HD and a multi-room.
Obviously we needed a BT line, which we have never had before.
In the paperwork we got off Sky it stated that we needed a BT line for both the HD box and the multi-room.
BT came today and did the line for the living room but said that an extension would be needed for the bedroom at extra cost.
What is the best way to proceed with this?
Do I phone BT to get the extension, or can Sky do anything about this?
Do I phone someone from a local paper ad to do it cheap or is there a way round not having the extension done but still being able to get the multi-room?
Advice please.
Obviously we needed a BT line, which we have never had before.
In the paperwork we got off Sky it stated that we needed a BT line for both the HD box and the multi-room.
BT came today and did the line for the living room but said that an extension would be needed for the bedroom at extra cost.
What is the best way to proceed with this?
Do I phone BT to get the extension, or can Sky do anything about this?
Do I phone someone from a local paper ad to do it cheap or is there a way round not having the extension done but still being able to get the multi-room?
Advice please.
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You only need a working phone line for Sky TV, doesn't have to be BT, can be cable or any other, as long as it's a working fixed landline.
What you do need a BT line for is if you have Sky broadband or want to use the Sky talk phone package.
For the TV it's never been a requirement that it had to be BT, we had Sky install back in 1998 with a cable line and people are still having it installed today with a cable phone.
You need both boxes plugged into the same line so Sky can send signals over the air through the dish to tell each box to phone home to Sky on an 0800 number every month or so, so Sky can confirm that both boxes are at the same address and you haven't simply given the box to a friend, neighbour etc and split the costs.
However having a BT line will open up to you cheap call providers.
Maybe Sky Talk for £5 over BT line rental inclusive calls, or £0.00 for just the evening or weekends. Also you can sign up to Call 18185 and use them for cheap calls to mobiles, international and landline if not free with your Sky package.
...or did you mean you didn't even have a cable phone, you had no landline?
You can buy from the pound shop a 15 - 20 metre extension.
If the distance from the socket to the other box isn't that far, Sky usually supply an extension, but only short runs.
You could buy a slave socket and several meters of telephone cable for a few quid and wire it yourself. You unscrew the front plate of the BT master socket and then wire pins 2 ,3 & 5 to pins 2, 3 & 5 to the slave socket you bought.
You could pay a local guy £15 - 25 to do the job, or pay BT 4 - 5 times that.