topic Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q in Sky Q

Sky Multi Room Sky Q

ryanhanson — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:38:40 GMT

I already have a subscription with 2TB Sky Q and 4 Mini Boxes all works fine.

I am helping my son order a New Sky Q system for a different address, we add all the desired pachages and the multiroom option for £15 which adds one minibox to what i presume is a 1TB Box Main Box. It says additional boxes can be ordered later but does not mension a price.

What i want to know is what the current cost is of additional mini boxes and i expect it will need a 2TB main box.

Need to know this cost to compare to Streem, before i commit to the order.

Anyone know.?

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

nigea99 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:42:52 GMT

@ryanhanson wrote:

I already have a subscription with 2TB Sky Q and 4 Mini Boxes all works fine.

I am helping my son order a New Sky Q system for a different address, we add all the desired pachages and the multiroom option for £15 which adds one minibox to what i presume is a 1TB Box Main Box. It says additional boxes can be ordered later but does not mension a price.

What i want to know is what the current cost is of additional mini boxes and i expect it will need a 2TB main box.

Need to know this cost to compare to Streem, before i commit to the order.

Anyone know.?

hi @ryanhanson I think they are £50 although I am not sure

You do not need a 2TB to use more than 1 mini at the same time - a 1TB UHD box (the current default) also supports 2 active minis

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

ryanhanson — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:52:56 GMT

So the current 1TB Q box must differ from the one we had upgraded when we got the 4 mini boxes on our account a couple of years ago.

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

MightyQuinn — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:10:08 GMT

@ryanhanson wrote:
So the current 1TB Q box must differ from the one we had upgraded when we got the 4 mini boxes on our account a couple of years ago.

Hi @ryanhanson Correct. The latest 1TB & 2TB boxes have a common hardware version 32B2xx. If they insist on a 2TB box they will probably get an old 32B1xx box.

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

ryanhanson — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:23:02 GMT

right that makes sense then.. just need to confirm the cost of boxes, we got our 4 for free at the time, i guess they charge now because they want to push people onto streem instead.

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

TimmyBGood — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:23:52 GMT

@ryanhanson wrote:

So the current 1TB Q box must differ from the one we had upgraded when we got the 4 mini boxes on our account a couple of years ago.

The original 1TB (2016-2019) was HD/SD only and permitted one Mini in use.

The 1TB released in late 2019 was UHD/HDR and allows two Minis.

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

TimmyBGood — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:25:32 GMT

@ryanhanson wrote:

just need to confirm the cost of boxes, we got our 4 for free at the time, i guess they charge now because they want to push people onto streem instead.

Getting 4 free would always have been very unusual, well before Stream was a thing: typically only the first Mini had no additional up-front cost.

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

ryanhanson — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:36:44 GMT

was just before covid they had some sort of deal we got a 2TB box and 4 mini's if we renewd the contract for 18 months i think. thoses days are gone

Re: Sky Multi Room Sky Q

TimmyBGood — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:52:21 GMT

@ryanhanson

I guess by that point in Q deployment it might actually have become cheaper to store excess Mini box stock at subscriber addresses than in a warehouse ; )