extra sky box

[gg06gwynne]

if i have a sky plus box downstairs can i buy another sky plus box off ebay and connect them via a splitter or whatever you call it? and have sky upstairs without paying multiroom?

[cable man]

No in a way, as it will not as you need a card for the box but you can do it by cs but this site dose NOT have any cs posts telling you what you need 2 do or what 2 do as this site is not for cardsharing... but you can get a box and motorised satellite dish and get some FTA channels or more, but you will need 2 have a read in the satellite part of forum and see what you need 2 do as i only know a bit about satellites

[nvingo]

If you already have a Sky+ then you will most likely have a quad LNB on the dish. With this you can run four tuners, the Sky+ has two so you can have either another recorder (Sky+, SkyHD or Freesat+), or up to two receivers (Sky, Freesat or FTA-Free To Air). The cable from this will go to a spare connector on the dish LNB.

To receive the FreeToView channels would require a FreesatFromSky card in a Sky receiver. Otherwise a Freesat or FTA receiver will give you all the non-encrypted channels.

[gg06gwynne]

never thought about the card. ive heard of card sharing but dont know much about it. so no matter what ill need another card anyway because it wont work without a card, right?

[nvingo]

Freesat or FTA won't need a card.
Freesat From Sky card costs about £20 one-off, but there's hardly any channels added by it now, but of course that only works in a Sky box.