Reply With Quotenope, don't connect the phone line. If you want FBO or pay per view. Ring and ask for the service. Having the phone connected allows you to press the red button, and pay foxtels call fees which are more than a standard phone call.
IQ2 and the phone line
From what I've read here there seems to be a general opposition for connection of the phone line to the IQ2.
Apart from on-line requests for box office/on demand, is it required for any ongoing service validation?
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nope, don't connect the phone line. If you want FBO or pay per view. Ring and ask for the service. Having the phone connected allows you to press the red button, and pay foxtels call fees which are more than a standard phone call.
iam a bogan
Thanks mate. I'll leave it disconnected.
Fritzy
There was a thread quite a while ago in regards to how often it dialled out. Someone traced it on their phone bill and it was seen it call out excessively.
If you vote on a poll using the red button for example , you usually get billed a phone call cost of 55 cents.
I would leave it unplugged and only plug it in when required to order a movie of box office etc.
You can also order online.
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Yes, best way to proceed, faster too. Register and create Username and P/W and your done.Originally Posted by bambbbam
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Another thing worth mentioning again, here, (which was mentioned on another post).
If you have multi room and phone order - ALL boxes get the order.
Ineternet same as phone.
If you select button on remote,- only the box you orded from gets the FBO.
OSIRUS (14-12-09)
hmmmm, I tought IQ2 is no more "ring in" option, not even sure if over the internet. I use the internet for that but this is for blue.
Remember some time ago I could choose which service to put the order against but now I can,t see it.
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In Bed Together
As we all KNOW, Poxtel & Pelstra Are in BED together,The BOX,CARD & phone line will be married together in such away that you will be required to have a phone line plugged into the box at ALL times.
If you did not have a phone connection to your establishment, You will need Pelstra to set one up at the customers EXPENSE. ( Ba****ds)
In there view it will ELIMINATE the use of multi box usage in " multiple dwellings" ( Each Box Will Only Communicate if it is in the assigned Dwelling with an assigned Phone Connection.Maybe some sort of complicated encryption & decryption. ) dunno how that will work?
I've never had a phone line connected to my IQ2, and the one that was connected to my original pace digital box was removed the minute the install tech walked out the door.
Never had a problem, the boxes work fine without a phone line connected.
I don't think they can force (at least existing) customers to have their boxes connected to the phone line. If new contract will include it then this will be anyone choice. There is pple with no fixed helstra lines just using mobiles or naked line option. I don't think they can do this. And as in previous post I told the installer even not to bother to connect it to the phone line. And that's a funny thing:
just before I told him this, he plugged the IQ2 to dead secondary line socket which was there in the room.
Supprise, suprisse I could watch ppw....But as I said we disconnected it and I never investigated further this "freebie"
Cheers
Yes The BOX should work Fine Now
Ok then Lets see what happens in the next 6 to 18 mths
Not everyone has a return path connected , its not compulsory and never has been.
Nope, the other way round,
Phone option used to be not available, but is now on IQ's
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mborkp (15-12-09)
I live in a MDU and the installer told me they never bothered with the phone line, during my install..
* Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by Alien, a Terminator, and the Predator.
I've had digital since the original migration/roll-out in early 2004.
Other than for 5 minutes when the original tech was here, the phone line has never been connected, and I've never had a problem.
Last edited by MyComputer; 14-12-09 at 01:10 PM.
Many Hoons ago Austar wanted to connect the phone when they did that card/STB (Pace) changeover but only to new customers to begin with.
I was told by an installer that it was planned for all of Austar's STB's to be connected.
I dont know if they meant just one in a house of multiples ot each individual STB.
The intention was to go the way Foxtel had with an 'Interactive' services which never seemed to eventuate.
In the old Austech Forum before the Crash, there were quite a number of very irate members who had Foxtel beginning to report finding a repeated 13 or 1300 number on their phone bill and when they inquired about the number, it was their STB 'Ringing Home'.
The premise was this was to enable Foxtel to check you had a valid card (Goldies were On-sale at any Pub), and what your viewing habits were, set on and off etc.
When the members pointed out to Foxtell that they were paying the phone rental and they had never approved of these calls being made, Foxtel after much grumbling, had to discontinue the idea.
On cable they can access the box at no cost to you.
I also have a vague memory that this phone connection was to be part of an Internet service using the Satelitte for downloads as many areas didnt have a local dialup ISP, I know I didnt then, and certainly no ADSL/DSL Broadband outside innner metropolitan areas.
And having the STB connected to your phone line could stop the STB's doing a 'Leland Bros' too.
Last edited by gordon_s1942; 14-12-09 at 01:37 PM.
That is possible in theory, but Telstra do not allow Foxtel 2 way communication on the cable. This is so Foxtel can't compete with Telstra/Bigpond for internet access and similar services (triple play for e.g.) other than the PayTV access that Foxtel pay Telstra for,
With the IQ2 there is a network connection on the back of the box, but it is not active. I recall someone on the forum mentioning that this will be enabled in a future firmware update, and then Foxtel will be able to offer the extra 2 way services via your internet connection.
I dont see the ACCC allowing this as it would be having the monopoly on the consumers choice to a telephone service of there own choosing. Certainly if they have a service already connect with another provider. The only method they could track what line to box is calling from would be be using caller ID and making sure the line is registered with that installed address and I hear there is a work around with that too. The other would be a DSL type connection using a fixed IP which I dont see happening at all. If they do in someway have that as the required setup for complete service will diffenatly jack up the cost of pay tv and no way going to increase the customer base surley. Maybe a GSM system with GPRS might be the way to go? I like to see that !!
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