Sky Multiscreen - sharing sky subscription with house next door?
 

I own 2 houses next door to each other and I’m wondering whether I can share my sky subscription between the 2 houses. I am guessing sky wouldn’t be too happy about this and I assume they would expect each household to have its own subscription, nether the less, I would be interested to know if the following is possible….

My current Sky subscription includes one Sky HD box and one Sky + box (none HD) in another room. I am hoping to change this to 5 or 6 HD boxes (2 in my current house and 3 or 4 next door)…. The reason for so many receivers in the house next door is that I will be renting it out to students….

The questions I have are as follows…

1- Considering I will be paying the bill for all of the extra multiscreen boxes (£11.25 per month per box) - would sky allow me to share the subscription between 2 houses?
2- If, as I suspect, the answer to the above in ‘no’ could I set this up with a non-sky engineer but still using sky equipment? Ie. If I pay for the extra multiroom subscriptions but tell sky I do not need an engineer because I will set it up myself – is there any way sky could find out that the subscription in being used in 2 houses?
3- The normal sky HD multiscreen boxes do not have the facility to record. If I decide to get a normal box to begin with but then decide to upgrade to a box that can record at a later date – is there anything that needs to be done with regards to the installation or can I just disconnect the coaxial cable from the back of the old one and plug straight into the new one?
4- I already have an extra Sky HD box (with the facility to record) that a friend gave to me. Could I replace one of the standard HD multiscreen boxes with this one?
5- Could I deactivate the extra multiscreen subscriptions whenever I like? Eg. When one of the rooms next door is not occupied.

I am likely to have more questions but that’s enough for now!

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Re: Sky Multiscreen - sharing sky subscription with house next door?
 

Also all mutiroom boxes have to be connected to a telephone line, so you would have to run a telephone ext from the main house to the box in the other house. to make sky think it is still in the main house

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You could easily do it yourself but as it`s been pointed out already it would be illegal and each box has to be connected to a telephone line.
I live in a flat,have another box for my bedroom but could easily get another one and get it connected up to the flat above and share a subscription if I wanted to. Spare boxes and all the cable and connectors are readily available on ebay,and all you need do is get a viewing card from sky and it activated

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I thought the telephone line was all to do with getting a subsidised box? If that is the case buy HD boxes off ebay or wherever get a dish with enough lnbs to supply all the boxes installed them and call sky and set the boxes up on your account

Re: Sky Multiscreen - sharing sky subscription with house next door?
 

If you are using the box as part of a multi room sub then you must have the boxes connected to a working phone line otherwise you will be charged a sub per box !