Anyone used a wireless adaptor for sky

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  1. Bossman

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    I'm wanting to watch sky in another room but without running a cable, I was just wondering if they were any good, cheers mi dears
     
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    I have used one for years. Signal really good I just plug into any tv in the house. One downside is the signal is affected if near a router or when the microwave is on
     
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    Better solution is to use the Powerline adapters that run through your electricity cabling! Cheaper, faster & no interference. Plug & play as well.
     
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    We use one of those for Sky on demand and BBCi and it works a treat. Apparently if you have an old house with old wiring they don't work as well though, but otherwise I'd heartily recommend them.
     
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    No expert as I don't have sky, but my girlfriend's just got a sky wireless bridge, £20 I think from Sky which is sat next to her tv in her bedroom and receives Sky on demand thingy from her router, dunno if that does the same job as you're after?
     
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    I'll have a look at these, they sound ideal
     
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    I might be talking ****** as usual but I thought powerline adapters were for sending internet/network signal through your home wiring, not for sending the sky signal around the house.

    I've got a feeling that KyoteTyke and Gordon Ottershaw use the adaptors to get an internet signal to their sky box so that they can use the online/ondemand features, not so that they can get ordinary sky via their house wiring.

    And the wireless senders are crap. Better than nothing for a second TV that you hardly use but for anything used regularly I wouldn't bother
     
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    Thats what I wad concerned about ST, I wondered if you got loads of interference
     
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    In my experience they work about as well as an old style indoor aerial that you'd have on top of your portable TV. Sometimes you get a perfect picture, sometimes it's a bit grainy and at other times you end up doing one of these

    [video=youtube;BoDXyfAUBQc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDXyfAUBQc[/video]
     
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    Yeah apologies that's what I thought you meant. Forget the wireless idea ....Buy an iPad and watch Sky in any room on SkyGo!!
     
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    Heehee like it 
     
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