goatywoaty
Prominent Member
Hi chaps
I have a Humax Foxsat box which I used at my old house which worked perfectly there, it's only a few months old. Anyway, we recently moved to a house which needed a dish and cabling installing. I installed decent coax cable throughout the house, all leading from satellite points on the wall to a sky dish on the wall outside. I used a rubbish sat finder but couldn't get a signal with it. I've always managed to at my Mum's house and at our old house so was a bit miffed!
Anyway, cut a long story short, I gave up and got an aerial/satellite guy out and he put the sky dish back up (i'd taken it down thinking the location was no good as there is a tree about 80m away), he said the tree wasn't an issue and managed to meter it up so it had a decent signal. However, i'm getting ITV HD and BBC1 HD cut out every now and again. To try and put a time on it, it might cut out every 3 hours for a few seconds (I think it's worse when it's raining).
The aerial guy says that he can't meter it up any better, and the next steps are to change wiring, sat dish, lnb, freesat box.
I'm very sceptical that it's any of the above issues because I used a brand new Sky dish and LNB, the freesat box is pretty new and worked perfectly at our old house a couple of months back and I used premium cable, plus I spent time making good connections etc.
Could he be right and I need to look at the rest of the bits, or is it more likely a dodgy location for the dish? Why would it work perfectly and appear to have a strong signal, but then just cut out on ITV HD and BBC1 HD?
Getting a bit narked with this and I might sack it in and go with a freeview box and aerial if that's easier!
Any thoughts/info appreciated
Thanks in advance
I have a Humax Foxsat box which I used at my old house which worked perfectly there, it's only a few months old. Anyway, we recently moved to a house which needed a dish and cabling installing. I installed decent coax cable throughout the house, all leading from satellite points on the wall to a sky dish on the wall outside. I used a rubbish sat finder but couldn't get a signal with it. I've always managed to at my Mum's house and at our old house so was a bit miffed!
Anyway, cut a long story short, I gave up and got an aerial/satellite guy out and he put the sky dish back up (i'd taken it down thinking the location was no good as there is a tree about 80m away), he said the tree wasn't an issue and managed to meter it up so it had a decent signal. However, i'm getting ITV HD and BBC1 HD cut out every now and again. To try and put a time on it, it might cut out every 3 hours for a few seconds (I think it's worse when it's raining).
The aerial guy says that he can't meter it up any better, and the next steps are to change wiring, sat dish, lnb, freesat box.
I'm very sceptical that it's any of the above issues because I used a brand new Sky dish and LNB, the freesat box is pretty new and worked perfectly at our old house a couple of months back and I used premium cable, plus I spent time making good connections etc.
Could he be right and I need to look at the rest of the bits, or is it more likely a dodgy location for the dish? Why would it work perfectly and appear to have a strong signal, but then just cut out on ITV HD and BBC1 HD?
Getting a bit narked with this and I might sack it in and go with a freeview box and aerial if that's easier!
Any thoughts/info appreciated
Thanks in advance