Brainless sky

[jarr]

My router won't reach my telephone socket. The wireless set up shows it on the sky box!!

[Isitme]

Considering the title, your post does not make much sense. What exactly is your problem?

[jarr]

Born out of frustration. My wireless router is in the other room. On the instructions it shows it on top of the skybox?

[Isitme]

You have to connect the Sky+ Box to the router either by ethernet cable or wireless bridge. What do you have.

[jarr]

So all I have to do is connect the router and ethernet? I don't need it connected to my phone line for setup? Or do I need two routers? One on my sky box plus the main one?

[Isitme]

The router must be connected to the phone line. If you don't have a long enough ethernet cable to reach the Sky box, you will have to buy one or buy a wireless bridge.

[jarr]

That makes no sense. It's connected via ethernet so how does that make it wireless?

[steelysteph]

• The router connects to the phone line with a cable to create your internet connection.
• The router enables your devices (computers, games consoles, Sky+ box) to connect to the internet.
  
• This connection is via Ethernet using cables plugged into the sockets on the router
• and / or via wireless using the router's wifi signal.

[jarr]

Ok the network screen is there but it says service connection failed.

[steelysteph]

Is the router plugged into the phone line and are you using the filter that was supplied?