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Originally Posted by gazzae
Because you could halve the subscripton with a mate. Sky's top package plus multiroom is £52. You could say to a mate lets take out multiroom, you take a box to your house I'll have one at mine and we'll each pay £26.
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OK we were talking about the same thing. What I said originally was, to share one subscription between 2 neighbours, there'd be a cable running from house 1 (the subscriber), to house 2. So, if you've got a cable running between houses, why not just have another cable, a phone extension, running between the houses too?
That is - how is needing to be connected to the home address's landline at all times, preventing you sharing the subscription? If you're willing to run a cable to another house you can run a phoneline extension too, solving the problem.
NEWSFLASH
I just realised what your point was. A friend living in a differnent location (not your street) with an EXISTING satellite setup but NOT paying SKY anymore could plug in YOUR 2nd box and card.
I was thinking of the setup where they'd be connected to YOUR satellite - meaning they'd have to be a neighbour. It never occurred to me that you could use a different satellite. I assume there ARE some neighbours who do this (a strategic hole in the shared wall would do the job).
Do you get me now?
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Originally Posted by Druchii
So, why hasn't anyone come up with a way of faking the reply from the boxes back to Sky yet? Surely this would be highly profitable for them?
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Like a little electronic box that fakes a landline signal? Sounds tricky, depends on what the STB does with this connection to check. I'm sure the thing would be out there if it was possible.