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Busted Digi box, i think.

  • 15-03-2005 1:40pm
    #1
    gokgok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭


    Yesterday, i came home to find that the irish station and bbc 1 and 2 were gone, i was getting no signal being received. The rest of the stations were fine. On bbc i was getting a slight signal but it was breaking up.

    I reset the box with no joy.

    So i rang sky and they sent a different signal(the uk one i think), turned off the LNB and back on. No joy.

    They said it would cost E108 to get and engineer out. I tested the signal and it was up at about 3/4.

    Something similar happened to me just over a year ago. Is the life span of these boxes just over a year, the box i have is a grundig one. The last person that was out to fix it said that they give you reconditioned boxes not new ones.

    I have a pain in my rocks with sky and am thinking of changing over to NTL or a free satelite system.

    Please advise.

    Cheers

    Daire


Comments

  • #2
    brendor
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭brendor


    I have the OPPOSITE problem in that the RTE's, E4 and BBC's are perfect but Sky, UKTV, etc. are unwatchable - I rang SKY as well who recommended I get an engineer to call - they did say that the fact that some channels were fine and others not was an indication that the box or dish had developed a fault.

    Surely if there was a problem with the dish no channels would work?


  • #3
    brendor
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭brendor


    Sorry I forgot to add I have a Panasonic box which I have had for a year and a half without any problems whatsoever (up to now)!


  • #4
    gokgok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭gokgok


    It seems to be working ok now. I'll keep you posted.

    Could it be the wind/weather?


  • #5
    dbran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭dbran


    Exact same problem as brender. But seemed to fix itself Monday evening. It was as if storm was passing except i went on for Sunday and most of Monday.
    I would suspect that it was a faulty tuner but is now woking fine so now I dont know.

    Signal strenghth was going up and down and all over the place which would suggest a tuner not locking onto the signal properly.

    I wonder do they power down the satalite ocassionally if there is a danger of solar flares etc. (A long shot perhaps)

    I haver a pace box which I know is notorious for faulty tuners. This will be my second one in 2 years now if so.


  • #6
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    could be that the 22khz tone to the LNB could be F*CKed, which means its either you box or a fault in the LNB, most times its generally a fault in the digibox.


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