SatAtOnce / Casablanca 23.5E

watty

The unique and VERY FREE Casablanca service is moving to 23.5E from 19.2E.

This is probabily what Lyngsat call German Beam.

Anyhow I took off the LNB for my Diseqc input 4 which was on a separate dish pointed at 15W. I simply set the LNB between the 19E and 28E LNBs on my triple LNB 80cm dish (also has Hotbirds 13E). With LNB just sitting there and now adjustment CT24 was OK and the FTA German stations breaking up. On the Casablanca Data channel level was down to 30% rather than 60% on 19.2 by Quality still OK.

I rather imaging actually adjusting, and mounting in place will work rather better.

So, anyway, 13E, 19.2E, 23.5E and 28.2E (all roughly same spacing) on one 80cm dish does work here in Limerick. The 28.2 LNB is a Sky minidish quad and gets over 90% quality.

telecinesk

Just out of curiosity, how big is dish at 23E?
And on subject of czechlink, is it still fta? ie CT1,2 in particular.

Casablanca, what is available to see with the data decoder. ie is it worth a look?

watty

It's an 80cm ish dish, really really old solid from Sky Analogue days, I got it for a tenner about 5 years ago. Looks more like scrap drum lid than a dish really.

Can't remember about CT1 CT2. I can check

Lyngsat says "Cryptoworks" for everything except CT24 and the radio. Usually right.

Casablanca is brilliant if you have only expensive dialup or no internet.

Oddly it is usefull if you have broadband as sometimes they make good selections.

It is like Teletext, except each page is part or all of a website, an RSS feed, Podcast, Email broadcast or newsgroup. All stored in background on a Hard disk cache. Download is fairly fast. Unlike some satellite 1/2 broadband download schemes it seems to work on Skystar1 series as well as on Skystar2.
I just downloaded and installed Technotrend Premium version 2.19 drivers for my Skystar1/Nexus like original Hauppauge PCI Satellite Card. ProgDVB still works.

byte

That Casablanca reminds me slightly of Europe Online, back in the early days. EON had a system where all downloads were scheduled, but with a 3rd party app, it was possible to download all data that everyone had scheduled, so overnight you could have downloaded about 10-20GB of stuff! Which was quite good back then when even 512k DSL was in its extreme infancy here.

Sadly, EON changed how it operated, and I disconnected from teh service, and moved to Netsystem (thanks to both companies for the free Skystar 2 cards!).

watty

Except Casablanca is free. The Casablanca news group is carried. It allows binary attachments so folks request files and others with Broadband post them to the newsgroup. Which gets pushed to cache.

All free.

byte

I see. I had tried to get this working before, but had too many issues with it and gave up. Now with DSL, I don't really need it, though still quite handy perhaps for dialup folks out there, as you say.