This is a 100% bulletproof FIX.
Do you have a PC on the same network as your Sky box? If so, that is the answer...using a program called 'Simple DNS Plus'
The fix:
Find out what the DNS of your PC is and put that as the DNS on your Sky box...'settings', 'network connection', 'network setup', 'advanced settings', 'edit', scroll down to DNS server and type in your Pc's IP address...make sure to hit 'confirm' when done...(to find your PC's IP address type 'what is my IP' in to any web browser...)
Get the PC program 'Simple DNS Plus'.....others are available, but this is the one I got to work...
On the options screen of Simple DNS Plus....select 'forwarding'....change domains to 'all' and forward to 1.1.1.1
Find the plug in section in 'Simple DNS Plus' and download the 'hosts' plugin
(The program does this for you, it's an internal thing and takes seconds to download)
Then just set up the rule where the DNS is processed when the domain name is equal to ondemand.cdnselector.skycdp.com
In the 'host file plug in instance tab' make sure the host file is pointing to the PC file address below...
(My hard Drive letter is C...change C to whatever your hard drive letter is...)
C\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
I think it is set to that location by default, anyway...
Make sure that 'automatically reload host file when it is updated' is ticked....
Restart PC, restart Sky box...
Start Simple DNS plus and put the graph / monitor on so you can see activity
Queue up a load of Sky programs to download. When you do this, the box will have a fit...it'll say there's a technical fault, it'll say it can't process the queue, it'll give multiple download errors!
That's it going to the wrong server...and the PC brute forcing it to go to the correct server...just give it a few seconds and go to 'recordings', 'manage', 'downloads' on your Sky box....
You'll see no errors, no failures and your programs downloading. Once the box has found the correct server it tends to stick to it for a day or two...the next time is goes wrong, you'll see the same errors, but there are no consequences or failures...and you dont have to restart broken files because none of them break!
You can check your PC is intervening by looking at the 'Simple DNS Plus' activity log / graph where you'll see loads of texts and graphs jumping about...
If nothing is happening then your PC is NOT intervening...the other clue that something is wrong is your Sky downloads will still fail!
If that's the case, you need to go to the exact file called 'hosts' on your PC (it's location is listed above)
You need to open the file in 'notepad' AS AN ADMINISTRATOR and go to the bottom of the file and put the following in...
ondemand.cdnselector.skycdp.com 87.248.204.0
a2047.sky.akamai.net 87.248.204.0
(There is a single space between .com and the numbers and .net and the numbers)
To be clear,
ondemand.cdnselector.skycdp.com 87.248.204.0
Should appear on one line of the notepad document and
a2047.sky.akamai.net 87.248.204.0
Should appear on the next line of the notepad document
You then have to save the file...be careful when doing so, it originally saved mine as host.txt...just delete the .txt bit when you go to save...it should then overwrite the original hosts file...
