Sky Multiroom (or alternative) question!!

[muffins78]

I am hoping someone one can help please? I just rang Sky about ordering multiroom, and I am definitely not ?with it? because I hadn?t even thought about them having to wire the box in the second room.

The dish is a bit of a distance from the bedroom. Currently, the dish is connected by a wire hung externally around the side of the building and it comes through the living room wall where the tv is. The cable is rather large.

I?ll be lucky if they can bring the new cable from the dish to the new box in the bedroom externally. Assuming they do, the box is going to be in an awkward corner in terms of bringing the wire through the room. I cant rearrange the furniture due to the layout of the room etc.. I dont want a large wire just hanging around the room.

Is there some type of smaller wire that can be used as a connector - from the main wire connected to the Sky dish, which I could connect to the Sky box, and neatly tuck around the room? I hope that makes sense?

I?ve tried to use a video sender, so as to avoid multiroom but the signal was very poor. I don?t know if there are any other options. Any ideas would be much appreciated :) Thanks!

[StraferJack]

Do you have a tablet?

Much more convenient to stream to one of those and position anywhere in the other room (unless you need a mega screen

No wires, no ariels, no holes

[muffins78]

No unfortunately, and its not something I can get anytime soon! I only recently got a new tv - but thank you!!!

[Bic Basher]

The dish LNB has at least a quad (4 ports), so that extra cable can be run directly to your multiroom box.

Remember that the multiroom box has to be permanently connected to a phone line, so have a think about that too.

[muffins78]

Oh a phone line too!! They didn't mention thAt - thank you so much, I didn't know that at all!! I think this multiroom will not be happening :(

There must be an alternative - it's google time yet again!! Thanks for your help :)

[Loz]

Was this the sender you tried? It is used by lots of people.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/sky-remote-eye-link-pt73q

[ratty]

Had multiroom installed last month. No phone line required if you have wifi

[ruffers]

Can you get an xbox or similar and use it as a Sky Go device? No need for any wires then I don't think.

[muffins78]

Oh my god, I didn't know that about Xbox! Thank you! I just looked it up and it says play station too. I have a Wii, ill see if it can be done on that.

Thanks again, I'm assuming this definitely works, if I eventually have to buy a console for it. Does it work with the Sky remote? Sorry for too many questions.

[StraferJack]

Won't work with wii

And won't work with Sky remote on consoles. You have to use console controller. But that's ok

[muffins78]

Thanks so much for all your help! That's so much better than getting multiroom - I'm very pleased with this :) So much easier! :)

[ruffers]

Just be aware it's not going to be as slick as a sky box and remote, but as a second room solution it should be OK.