James
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Hi,
We are getting the £26 Sky package with TV, Phone, and Tinternet.
I'm getting Sky piped into my bedroom but i'm currently in the spare room until our extension is finished.
How hard will it be to get it set up in the spare room and then moved over into my new bedroom when the extension is finished?
Cheers,
James
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Cosmo
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Are you getting it from the dish so you have another box and multiroom?
Or are you using the RF out and having it going through wired wall sockets?
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James
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WTF are you on about 
Hang on how does it work, does the Sky dish pump Sky through my normal TV aerial sockets and I just connect up the Sky Box and away I go?
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James
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I'm not having multiroom, it will only ever be in one room, but the room will change at some point.
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Cosmo
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Sky comes in through its own wires (two I think) from the dish and into the room where your having the actual box.
On the back of the Sky box you have the RF (the normal aerial cable for the TV) IN and also OUT. Through some magic and trickery this can then be sent around the house and all the other TVs can be tuned in to view whatever is currently being played on Sky.
That is if you have fitted aerial sockets in the rooms?
Thats how ours is done anyway, Im sure their are a few other ways aswell
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James
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I see, well I will be wanting to physically move the box from one room to another.
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by James
I see, well I will be wanting to physically move the box from one room to another.
Ah right So your not wanting the box in one room and then being able to view it in others - which is how I read it 
In that case it'll just be having to get the wires coming from the dish moved from going into one room in the house and into the other. Will it be far from the original room its going into?
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James
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No the room's next door.
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Cosmo
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easy job then really.
If you tell them where you'll be wanting it to go int he future they might make the cables the right length so you can move it yourself when you need to.
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James
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But don't the cables come through the outside wall? 
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Dean_W
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Thats what a big SDS drill's for.
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by James
But don't the cables come through the outside wall?
Yeah, but really depends on the house for ease of moving them.
If you dont have solid concrete floors downstairs (or wherever the rooms are) then easy to get the wires to come in under floor level, then bring them up through the floor in the right place in whichever room.
If not then if you have enough wire left to go around the outside of the house and into the next room then a simple job of pulling the wires out of the first room sky is going into, plugging up that hole, and then drilling another in the extension is done.
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James
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TBH I think I will get the box fitted in what is going to be my new room, then temporarily run a big cable into my current room 
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Cosmo
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its not hard to move it
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James
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Long cables FTW
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