No Eircom line so can't receive Sky+

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I am in an estate that came ready-built for Fibre Optic phone lines, so our houses are not suitable for Eircom land lines, which is not necessarily a bad thing :)) but I have a Sky dish and had Sky out on 2 occasions to install Sky + but as that our phone sockets are not receptive (size-wise) to the standard phone sockets (they are a little bigger) Sky could not install the Sky+ feature which I want.....help appreciated!
 
If the size of the phone socket is the only issue then there are adaptors you can buy...however the guys doing the installation would surely have had these so there has to be more to it than that.
 
Standard modems which use ADSL are not suitable for "fibre to the home" connections.
Maybe the Sky+ cant use VDSL which is suitable for fibre to the home.

Have a look at the description of ADSL and VDSL on www.howstuffworks.com for more details.
 
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U2Fan said:
I am in an estate that came ready-built for Fibre Optic phone lines, so our houses are not suitable for Eircom land lines, which is not necessarily a bad thing :)) but I have a Sky dish and had Sky out on 2 occasions to install Sky + but as that our phone sockets are not receptive (size-wise) to the standard phone sockets (they are a little bigger) Sky could not install the Sky+ feature which I want.....help appreciated!
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Independent installers can install Sky+ without a landline. I have box ordered myself. No extra monthly charge either. Just pay for the box
 
How much for the box did you pay if you dont mind me asking. I have a quad lnb, with two feeds to my existing standard sky digital box, so an upgrade would be a doddle, would even do it myself, just dont want to fork out hundreds on sky+ box.
 
Wexfordman said:
How much for the box did you pay if you dont mind me asking. I have a quad lnb, with two feeds to my existing standard sky digital box, so an upgrade would be a doddle, would even do it myself, just dont want to fork out hundreds on sky+ box.
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Box is ordered but I think he told me €149 for box and €45 for installation.

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Rang sky and they wouldn't do it without landline but he would
 
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Sky download software upgrades over the phone. You might end up with maintenance issues down the line, if they cant do this.
 
U2Fan said:
I am in an estate that came ready-built for Fibre Optic phone lines, so our houses are not suitable for Eircom land lines, which is not necessarily a bad thing :)) but I have a Sky dish and had Sky out on 2 occasions to install Sky + but as that our phone sockets are not receptive (size-wise) to the standard phone sockets (they are a little bigger) Sky could not install the Sky+ feature which I want.....help appreciated!
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We were in the same boat - we just had to bring the box into the local retailer , he hooked it to phone line we collected it 20 mins later, brought home works perfectly. You only need to be connected to the phone line for a minute or two.
 
ney001 said:
We were in the same boat - we just had to bring the box into the local retailer , he hooked it to phone line we collected it 20 mins later, brought home works perfectly. You only need to be connected to the phone line for a minute or two.
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Interesting, I was under the impression that the reason for the digibox to call out was to verify the landline number hence the location, and also that it did an ET and did so at a set time so the box can't be moved to a 2nd non-paying location, can't see the point otherwise.

Anyone
 
potnoodler said:
Interesting, I was under the impression that the reason for the digibox to call out was to verify the landline number hence the location, and also that it did an ET and did so at a set time so the box can't be moved to a 2nd non-paying location, can't see the point otherwise.

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No, the callback is only really needed to verify the location in the case of multiroom. You absolutely 100% cannot get multiroom (the discounted rate that is) without all the boxes in your home being connected to the phoneline.
 
I can confirm that you do not have to have a Landline. Sky charge a "one off" fee of approx €35 for this. Upgrades etc. are downloaded by satellite - no probs.
 
For multi romm you do need a phone line connected at all times.
Otherwise you could be using the second box anywhere & getting the full sky package for €15
Sky boxes make calls every so often to confirm they are connected.
All these calls must be from the same location/number
 
U2Fan said:
I am in an estate that came ready-built for Fibre Optic phone lines, so our houses are not suitable for Eircom land lines, which is not necessarily a bad thing :)) but I have a Sky dish and had Sky out on 2 occasions to install Sky + but as that our phone sockets are not receptive (size-wise) to the standard phone sockets (they are a little bigger) Sky could not install the Sky+ feature which I want.....help appreciated!
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cant get it in blocks of flats either - bummer!
 
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