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Nice idea - Don't know whether it would work but I do know that the T&C state that both boxes must be connected to the same telephone line - permanently. I wonder if it phones home periodically; thus if no phone home from correct number, you get charged for two boxes.
The reason why you have the phone connected is so that when your box rings SKY they can see if you have watched any Pay stuff and they can then charge you for it
Yes that is correct. (actually, the satellite sends a signal to your box and tells it to dial into SKY to report what you have watched and when. Depending on your credit rating you might get up to £50 worth of films/extras before it HAS to dial in to report)
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I always loved the story of where the box rang SKY and froze. When the guy came home he had a bill for £2,300.
The reason why you have the phone connected is so that when your box rings SKY they can see if you have watched any Pay stuff and they can then charge you for it
I disconnected my sky box from the phone line because it was 'crackling' and interfering with my broadband.
Whilst it would be possible to spoof the CLI it would cost more than the saving, so this is a perfect security measure for SKY.
It's possible to do it on the cheap using a VoIP provider as you can assign the same given (local) number to 5 IP devices anywhere in the world.
I've done it while keeping 2 boxes in the same house as I didn't have a telephone connection, just a cable modem. So technically it is possible as long as both houses have broadband but's it's probably againt $kys T&C
You need to use an ADSL filter on your sky phone socket as well as all the other sockets which you are plugging phones/devices into.
Satalite transmission is only one way, so there is no way it could bill you unless it was plugged into the line sometime after you ordered the movie/ppv.
All phone connections did have ADSL filters but with the sky box connected the broadband simply would not work so I disconnected it and all is fine.
I will try to watch another box office movie and see what happens but I am sure I have watched one since disconnecting.
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