Moving a SKY box from house to house?

[nick s]

Hoping the combined knowledge of PH can help me here as i can't find the answer anywhere else!
Want to watch the boxing on sat night, but i don't have SKY at my house anymore. I have a projector and Screen setup at mine, and am going to have a few people over to watch it hopefully. Now the plan was, to bring my mates sky box and card over, and plug it in at my house, i still have all the cabling and sattelite dish etc, as my subscription was only cancelled last month. Will this work? fingers crossed!

[Marf]

Yes. No reason why it shouldn't work. The box has no way of knowing where it is.

[CraigW]

as an aside, I'm moving, do i just tell sky and ask them to come put in new dish and i just take the box?

[Marf]

CraigW said:

as an aside, I'm moving, do i just tell sky and ask them to come put in new dish and i just take the box?

Yes. Alternatively you could remove the dish yourself and get a non sky engineer to fit it at your new address, then just inform Sky that you have moved and to update your details.

[cabby_gaz]

or just take down and install the dish yourself at the new property (just look at the position the neighbors dishes are situated and copy them). If you need any extra cable or connections they can be found at most hardware shops or www.maplin.co.uk

[Marf]

cabby_gaz said:

or just take down and install the dish yourself at the new property (just look at the position the neighbors dishes are situated and copy them).

Not really that simple, ideally you need to know the angles the dish points at to receive a signal.

[mrmr96]

Marf said:

Yes. No reason why it shouldn't work. The box has no way of knowing where it is.

I'd agree, but for the fact he wants to watch boxing, which is presumably on pay-per-view which requires a phone connection, doesn't it? Would there be an issue with the mis-match of Sky card and phone number?

[Alex]

mrmr96 said:

Marf said:

Yes. No reason why it shouldn't work. The box has no way of knowing where it is.

I'd agree, but for the fact he wants to watch boxing, which is presumably on pay-per-view which requires a phone connection, doesn't it? Would there be an issue with the mis-match of Sky card and phone number?

Book the pay-per-view before you move the box. Alternatively phone Sky to book it. The telephone line is only required to book onscreen, it is not required to authorise the viewing; that comes over the satellite signal.

[Marf]

^^ Yup.

[CraigW]

Marf said:

CraigW said:

as an aside, I'm moving, do i just tell sky and ask them to come put in new dish and i just take the box?

Yes. Alternatively you could remove the dish yourself and get a non sky engineer to fit it at your new address, then just inform Sky that you have moved and to update your details.

thx v much, sorry for thread hijack but the guy building house has prewired whole plaxce with linked coax - I assume can be used for sattelite, does anyone know if hd is any different?

[nick s]

Alex said:

mrmr96 said:

Marf said:

Yes. No reason why it shouldn't work. The box has no way of knowing where it is.

I'd agree, but for the fact he wants to watch boxing, which is presumably on pay-per-view which requires a phone connection, doesn't it? Would there be an issue with the mis-match of Sky card and phone number?

Book the pay-per-view before you move the box. Alternatively phone Sky to book it. The telephone line is only required to book onscreen, it is not required to authorise the viewing; that comes over the satellite signal.

thanks for the help guys! Just the answer i was looking for.

Edited by nick s on Wednesday 16th September 14:01

[davidjpowell]

If you are moving Sky will want to charge you £50 to fit a new dish. If you are out of contract tell them at this stage you will cancel instead. They will quickly offer to do this for free!