Re: [OT] Sky digital installation questions.

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

> SWMBO wants to use it to send email, is it worth getting the keyboard?

The whole experience is SOOOOOOO slow it's not true!  It's for people who
don't have a PC.  You will get so frustrated with the lack of speed that
you'll never use it.

> Can the keyboard function as a remote to control the receiver?

Yes.

> Can it learn?

No.

> Or should I just teach her to use the PC (upstairs until I get
> the network installed)?

YES!! :-)

> I planned on keeping my old dish/receiver installed for the free to
> 'air' channels (while they last) I also figured that the extra cabling
> would come in handy!  Yesterday, when reading about the Tivo box and
> the twin LNB I decided I really needed to do this.  However I read the
> small print and it seems you have to pay an extra 40 quid to do this.
> Anybody persuaded an installer otherwise?, it does seem unfair that as
> an existing customer I pay the same price as Joe Bloggs and he gets
> cabling done as well.

If you're thinking they are going to use your existing analogue cable then
they won't.  They should run a new CT100.  Be aware that they will do this
in the quickest, ugliest way they can.  Over the roof etc, drill hole in
window frame.  You get the picture.

M.




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