Can someone use my sky illegally

[Kirstg88]

I don't know if it's possible but here goes. I live in a flat(upstairs) new neighbour moved in and he's had a guy round in my garden where two sky dishes are with a white wire faffing about. Can he hook up this wire to my dish and illegally use my sky without me knowing? Thanks in advance 

[GD1]

@Kirstg88  No, if you are already setup on your own dish then another flat should not be sharing your dish.

It should be pointed out they cannot "use your Sky" as your box is connected to your TV and your subscription card serves your box only, even if they have incorrectly used your dish, without their own seperate subscription they cannot get any subscription channels, and they certainly can't view any of those that your paying for.

[Kirstg88]

@GD1 @The dish below mine was mine when I moved in but was disconnected just never removed. The old neighbour didn't have sky. I'm just wanting to make sure he can't now use my sky as a freebie. I might pay for an engineer to come out and make sure they've not tampered with my dish. Thank you tho 

[GD1]

@Kirstg88 Not without direct access to your box, no. As explained above.

[MightyQuinn]

Hi @Kirstg88   If your Sky Q still works then they have not tampered with it!

[TimmyBGood]

@Kirstg88 

Exactly the same signal falls on every Sky dish in the country: 'your' subscription starts at the Sky box with your viewing card in it.  There's nothing that can be done at the dish end to extract a decoded signal from the dish cable: the most which can be achieved there is to use the same dish for more than one box.

[bob1234]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

@Kirstg88 

Exactly the same signal falls on every Sky dish in the country: 'your' subscription starts at the Sky box with your viewing card in it.  There's nothing that can be done at the dish end to extract a decoded signal from the dish cable: the most which can be achieved there is to use the same dish for more than one box.

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Even then not possible unless you have one of the rare early hybrid "smart LNBs" others do not have enough outputs that can use Q.

[Kirstg88]

Thank you so much everyone. I really appreciate it. I feel a tad silly for asking but I just found it strange how they went into my garden to my dishes without even speaking to me first. Thank you again ❤️❤️