Can a Wireless Router effect Sky reception?

FastFullBack

This is what the Sky 'Engineer' told me when he came to check our poor reception.
Is he right?
The thing is our poor reception problems has been happening before the wireless router was placed on the telly about 20 inches from Sky box.

He replaced the LNB and checked all connections but still reception can be very bad.
What next can it be? Read on here and he mentioned that it may be the Sky box.

Is this the only thing it could be once the Dish, LNB and all connections ore ok?

watty

Nonsense.

WiFi is the wrong band. No effect at all. Nor do video senders.

What sort of "bad reception"?

Mostly likely thing is dish alignment, or if dish was installed last winter, leaves on trees in path. (Dish actually looks up at about 20 degrees).

JohnDigital

I very much doubt it. I have my Eircom supplied Netopia 3347NWG right beside my digibox's under the main TV and have never experienced any issues.

FastFullBack

No sure of the techical term for the bad reception. It's like the sky reception when the weather is very bad.

Like in this link: http://www.stevelarkins.freeuk.com/sky_tv_guide.htm

The dish is new about 3 weeks old. Don't think there's trees in the way of it, but I'll check for definite tonight.

The sky box itself it about year and half old. Was moved from house we used to live in. Never had any reception problems there.

Heinz

Unplug the router from the mains when you get 'bad reception' - if it's the cause, the pictures will be perfect!

Surely the 'engineer' tried that?

humaxf1

I'd use the term, engineer, loosely. Ask him for his degree!!!

The LNB receives signals in the 10-12GHz range and then converts it to in&around 2GHz and sends it down the coax to the sat receiver. WIFI routers operate in the 2.4GHz range, so there mayyyyyyyyybe some connection!!!

FastFullBack

Heinz wrote:

Unplug the router from the mains when you get 'bad reception' - if it's the cause, the pictures will be perfect!

Surely the 'engineer' tried that?

Well thats the thing the reception was good when the 'engineer' called out. The problems seems to be alot worse at night for some reason.

But I've tried what you said and it made no difference.

watty

Dish alignment maybe. Mist condensing at night?

FastFullBack

watty wrote:

Dish alignment maybe. Mist condensing at night?

Where would the mist be condensing? In and around the LNB? Sky guy replaced this and said it was ok. Not damp or anything.

The signal strenght and quality are both only around 50% I think. (not at home now so can't check for definite)

What should I be looking for to check the dish alignment?

byte

What kind of cable is being used? eg, is there a copper foil and braid?

How long roughly is the cable run from dish to digibox?

Would there be any joints in the cable?

Does it affect all or only some channels?

Generally, the Quality bar is around 70-90%. The Strength bar isn't as important.

jhegarty

carrolltimmy wrote:

This is what the Sky 'Engineer' told me when he came to check our poor reception.

Sounds like he got it the wrong way round... having a sky box plugged into the phone line can affect you dsl connection...

watty

The mist is in the sky.. When this happens the signal drops a little and if you have a bad cable run or mis-aligned dish (or badly skewed LNB) then some channels go blockier.

Historically satellites used to go onto lower power when in the dark (only a small part of each night). Long long ago some channels even got turned off at night.

Whatever the mechanism that it seems poorer at night, the cause is likely dish alignment, LNB Skew or Poor cable.

FastFullBack

Sorry a bit slow getting back to ye on this.

Signal quality is only about 50%. Strength 70%.

Some days the channels are fine but tonight again RTE1 , NET 2, TV3 unwatchable.

Not sure what kinda of cable is used. Anyway I can tell?

The cable run is about 15-20 meters. There's defo 1 joint just behind the TV, because the cable is ran to the TV using the existing TV wiring socket.

Only seems to effect some channels.

'Engineer' told me it could be the box. Would it be worth my while upgrading to SKY plus box see if that makes any difference.

SRB

Do you have a DECT telephone ?

stevecrow74

its fairly impossible that the wifi is effecting your sky....

i can see no way that it could..

thing to look out for.. on your dish is the LNB adjusted to the alignment of the satellite.. i.e. is it offset correctly

was it always poor quality??

is there any possible magnetic interference anywhere along the cable or around the satellite receiver

are all connections clean and is the cable run kink free

is there anything blocking the satellite signal.. i.e. tree, bush, wall... etc etc

is the dish correctly set at 28.2 degrees E (are you sure)(the slightest offset will effect the signal)
is the elevation of the dish properly set for your location..



any one of these could be the cause of poor reception...

what you need to get is a signal strength meter and twiddle with the dish a bit to see if you can increase the reception.. if you are unsure what to do look in the yellow pages, sky dealers i find dont have much of a clue, usually the people that deal in free to air satellites (non-sky)are usually better at this