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[pauls]

At present we have have 4 sky boxes running in my house and father in law as 1. We are all moving in a couple of  months down to somerset and from what i understand being its a new setup i have to have the new q box and i will not have enough coverage to cover 5 tvs. Anybody advise on better options its not cost its just we need to have 5 on the go at once. I was thinking of just running free view boxes but i dont know if one arieal would cover it
Ideas please....

[Kevin Wood]

Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. 

Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want.

[STEMO]

Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. 

Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want.

Yep. When we moved, we just brought our boxes with us. Don't let Sky talk you into a more expensive package, sounds as if you're paying enough already. I guess they may have to come out and run some more cables for you, 5 boxes is a lot.

[tunnie]

Sounds like BS to me. If you can get a signal at all, you can hang as many boxes from it as you like, as long as there are enough feeds from the LNB. 

Also no reason why you can't take your existing boxes with you. That's what I did when I moved. Just told Sky my new address and said "no, thanks" when they offered me fitting and all manner of other stuff I didn't want.

Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.

Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"

[tunnie]

Also you can't mix and match SkyHD boxes with Q boxes, the LNB is different. 

[Kevin Wood]

So why wouldn't the boxes the OP currently has work connected to the same type of dish at his new premises? 

[tunnie]

So why wouldn't the boxes the OP currently has work connected to the same type of dish at his new premises? 

If he did not tell Sky he was moving, they would work no problem. Assuming the house he is moving to does not have a Q LNB dish install, then it would be plug and play if it was the boxes only.

However I think Paul has Broadband with them? (I've replied to your PM btw Paul!) - Sky have tagged this as a move, as such it's an auto-upgrade to SkyQ. Policy is now we don't do installs with old boxes, it's only SkyQ installs now.

[aaronjb]

Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.

Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"

Progress!

[Kevin Wood]

Sadly not so with SkyQ, a standard LNB install has 8 outputs. A normal SkyHD box takes 2, other boxes 1.

Sky Q needs a new LNB. Max of 3 boxes, a main, and two "mini Q boxes"

Progress!

We know the customer wants it. He doesn't, but...

[tunnie]

I think more boxes will be supported, I doubt they would change the LNB for this either. So I think it will be a firmware/software update on the main Q box, to support more mini boxes.

As Mini boxes work over powerline/wi-fi, no direct Satellite feed.

[pauls]

Hi sorry forgot to say no sky broadband. Just tv.

[Kevin Wood]

Sounds like a DIY install at your new place and forget what Sky are trying to push on you, as it doesn't have comparable features.

[aaronjb]

As Mini boxes work over powerline/wi-fi, no direct Satellite feed.

I'm sure you know I was being cheeky really - the mini boxes are progress, in a lot of ways; not having to cable every room back to the LNB being a major plus for new installs and meaning someone could add a new room by just plugging a box in, not paying a man to come and run cable.. forcing people on to it where it's sub-optimal is, I suppose, par for the course in technology circles (my employer being as guilty for that as anyone else, I am sure!)

[Kevin Wood]

Careful! Don't get me started on Powerline networking.

Can't see either that or Wi-Fi coping with many set top boxes around a house, which is probably why they're limiting it. I'd fully expect to have to run UTP around the house. Not that that's a bad thing, because that opens up all sorts of other possibilities.

[TheBoy]

I'd fully expect to have to run UTP around the house. Not that that's a bad thing, because that opens up all sorts of other possibilities.

The real solution to any network issue, esp for static devices