ch4 and e4 gone from ntl basic

quaidox

hi,
ch4 and e4 have disappeared from ntl basic on us during the week.
has this happened to anyone else? i live in d11 by the way.
i rang ntl to see if maybe it was due due to ch4 and e4 going digital or something like that, but they said that it wasn't, and that they will send someone out to look at the exterior cabling to the house................i dont think local cabling is the issue tho..............

leche solara

This happened to me a few weeks ago after they upgraded cable in the area. They stuck a note in the door to say that C4, E4 and Discovery had been moved to different frequencies and needed to be retuned.

Channel 4 and E4 are duplicated on UHF, have you tried those ones? Is Discovery gone too? They could have dropped the band I feeds due to the atrocious reception on them in some areas.

E4: 471 MHz (UHF channel 21)
Channel 4: 543 MHz (UHF channel 30)

I can't check it here right now... one of the disadvantages of a shared house. :rolleyes:

SPDUB

Karsini wrote:

Channel 4 and E4 are duplicated on UHF

Not in all parts of the city though

quaidox

Karsini wrote:

Channel 4 and E4 are duplicated on UHF, have you tried those ones? Is Discovery gone too? They could have dropped the band I feeds due to the atrocious reception on them in some areas.

E4: 471 MHz (UHF channel 21)
Channel 4: 543 MHz (UHF channel 30)

I can't check it here right now... one of the disadvantages of a shared house. :rolleyes:

cheers karsini, had a quick trawl through the uhf frequesncies, and found e4 and discovery, so i'm sure ch4 is there as well. thanks for the help. it sure was nice of ntl to warn us of the change !!! :rolleyes:

Alun

SPDUB wrote:

Not in all parts of the city though

Indeed .. they're not there here in Bray, certainly.

rlogue

Shouldnt this thread be in the Cable forum?

byte

Thread moved to Cable forum.

stiofanD

Same thing happened to me last week. The reason for it was that NTL had upgraded to new cable in the area and the VHF frequencies will now be used for the cable modem return channels - i.e. NTL now support broadband in my area

As stated earlier in this thread, the missing channels can be found in the UHF band:

E4: 471 MHz (UHF channel 21)
Channel 4: 543 MHz (UHF channel 30)

Also, Discovery is now on channel 34

The tax man

stiofanD wrote:

- i.e. NTL now support broadband in my area

I checked the status of my local node(Rathfarnham) and it's return path to the headend and there isn't one broadband customer on it yet.
Contention free broadband:D till they start over selling it.:rolleyes:

Scruff

Those channels havent moved for me (in Dublin 22) but BBC2 is gone very bad, all grainy and fuzzy

SPDUB

Scruff wrote:

Those channels havent moved for me (in Dublin 22) but BBC2 is gone very bad, all grainy and fuzzy

That's the DAB service from 3 Rock on either side of the BBC2 frequency

Scruff

great...is there anything that can be done about it? is BBC2 re-broadcast on another freq?

watty

NTL (Actually UPC) are upgrading the Cable. It's bad cable.

Digital Cable is only other option.

Even at best analogue cable is poor.

SPDUB

watty wrote:

NTL (Actually UPC) are upgrading the Cable. It's bad cable.

Digital Cable is only other option.

Even at best analogue cable is poor.

Of course having the part of the city with probably the oldest and leakiest cable right beside the transmitter doesn't help either

CRAIG07

does anyone know when TROUBLE, UKTV STYLE AND UKTV DOCUMENTARY(SPELLING I KNOW) will be back

GerardKeating

CRAIG07 wrote:

does anyone know when TROUBLE, UKTV STYLE AND UKTV DOCUMENTARY(SPELLING I KNOW) will be back

Were they every on NTL ????

CRAIG07

Well Not Ntl They Were On Chorus Digital When I Got It First And When The New Channels Were Added The Went And Chorus Said They Would Return Soon