wireless

[Don-MacRae]

Can you setup multiple accounts to allow for up to 16- 4K wireless tv boxes.

I understand 8 boxes per service,

I have a large home with 12 TV’s and require boxes for each location.

[shaw-tommy]

Hello @Don-MacRae 

That might be a little tough considering each account would have to have an internet connection in order for the boxes to work. There may be some equipment that will work for you, but our account specialists are going to be the experts on that as this is a peer to peer support forum and not a way to get assistance with individual accounts. I would get in touch with them either over messaging here https://www.shaw.ca/contact-us or by calling at 1-888-472-2222.

Thanks for reaching out, 

Tommy

[mdk]

@Don-MacRae --  Can you setup multiple accounts to allow for up to 16- 4K wireless tv boxes. I understand 8 boxes per service, I have a large home with 12 TV’s and require boxes for each location.

I think that you will need two BlueCurve TV boxes. I don't know if you need two accounts -- one per box, or whether Shaw can put two boxes onto one account, without charging you for two complete TV services. (Think about an ordinary house, with Shaw TV in your main level, and a student tenant in your basement, with their own Shaw TV account. There will be two BlueCurve TV boxes inside your house.)

Telephone-pole --> coaxial cable --> Shaw's "demarcation box" --> one coaxial-cable to BlueCurve TV box #1, and one coaxial-cable to BlueCurve TV box #2.  

This will allow your 12 "wireless" boxes to connect wirelessly to either BlueCurve TV box. 

It might be good to physically separate the two BlueCurve TV boxes, e.g., one upstairs near the "north" end of the level, and one downstairs near the "south" end of the level, to provide good coverage everywhere inside your house.

What you do not want is to place the two BlueCurve TV boxes close to each other. The first 8 of your wireless boxes might connect to one BlueCurve, leaving the other 4 wireless boxes unable to connect to the "full" box, while the other box is "empty" of clients.

[rstra]

@Don-MacRae 

Yes, there is a maximum of eight wireless boxes per home. You could get FireTV sticks and the Shaw TV app for the rest of the TVs, you wouldn’t get all channels, but you could access recordings.

[mdk]

@Don-MacRae -- there is a maximum of eight wireless boxes per home.

If a (large) home has an in-law suite, or has an "infill" cottage on the property, and there are two separate Shaw accounts, does that maximum apply to each account, or to each property?

Example of a two-bedroom bungalow cottage behind the primary house/home:

In-fill cottage on the property