Wirelessly Transmit Sky Signal?

Beau x1

Hello!

In the past I've had what worked quite well, a transmitter that had two ends; one that connected via scart into the Sky+ box, and one that connected to my parents TV upstairs, via scart lead. In the main room with the Sky+ box, there was also an infrared piece that meant my parents could watch the sky channels upstairs in their room and use a second Sky+ remote and operate the Sky box as it would normally act like downstairs in the main room. Now, while this worked perfectly sadly it interferes with our wireless signal for the broadband, meaning that the tv will flicker and the wifi signal will frequently get disconnected. I'm looking for the same sort of system that won't interfere with the broadband router, any suggestions? The problem as far as I know is that the two both transmit on the same signal. Maybe I can resolve the problem with my router, I've already fiddled around but sadly no luck. Buying online isn't a problem.

Cheers.

DMC

IIRC, recommended by watty, set your wifi router to transmit on Channel 13, and set the videosender to channel A.

odie2020

Howdy,

Amazingly enough i just spent most of my sunday afternoon sorting out this problem and i have a fix

I just upgraded my router for b/g which broadcasts on 2.6ghz (same as digi senders) to N which broadcasts on 5ghz since then everything is perfect.

Hope this helps

watty

802.11a is 5GHz band too

Beau x1

DMC wrote: »

IIRC, recommended by watty, set your wifi router to transmit on Channel 13, and set the videosender to channel A.

watty wrote: »

802.11a is 5GHz band too

So I should try the method stated above? My videosender only has channel 1, 2 and 3. I presume A = '1'?

Thanks :]

DMC

Aye, normally on the Lidl Welltech videosenders, A is the lowest freq, so in your case, '1' should be too. What make/model is it?

Beau x1

It's a "One for All". I got it in PowerCity. Going to try setting the frequencies differently now. Hopefully it will work.

TM

odie2020 wrote: »

Howdy,

Amazingly enough i just spent most of my sunday afternoon sorting out this problem and i have a fix

I just upgraded my router for b/g which broadcasts on 2.6ghz (same as digi senders) to N which broadcasts on 5ghz since then everything is perfect.

Hope this helps

802.11b/g are 2.4GHz - same as most or all digisenders. When configuring both choose channel 1 for the wireless LAN and channel D for the digisender (or 11 and A) to try to keep them apart.

Jip

DMC wrote: »

IIRC, recommended by watty, set your wifi router to transmit on Channel 13, and set the videosender to channel A.

Sounds good to me, I've been keeping an eye out for a solution myself. Never changed the channel on the router, only messes around with the channels on the digisender. It's a pain as it basically means you can only use one at a time.

TM

Wifi channel 11 (or 13 if using whatever supports it) and digisender channel A, or wifi channel 1 and digisender channel D will normally keep them as far apart as possible and minimise interference. You can't really do better than that other than 802.11a on 5GHz or whatever. You may still get some interference but it should be a lot less than other configurations.

Of course if your neighbours have wireless routers, digisenders, baby monitors, other 2.4GHz devices then that further limits what you can do!

Beau x1

Well it now occurs to me that there are parts missing for the hardware. So I'll have to go about purchasing a new set. What do you guys reccomend? Thanks for all the help.

watty

Beau x1 wrote: »

So I should try the method stated above? My videosender only has channel 1, 2 and 3. I presume A = '1'?

Thanks :]

It is an illegal non-EU model? The legal standardised CE approved type has 4 channels. Of course it could be a cheap cut down model.

Some USA video sender gear uses EU GSM frequencies.

TM

Yeah - it would be interesting to see what, if any, details there are on the three channel units about what frequencies they use. Can you check and post details?

TM

Beau x1 wrote: »

Well it now occurs to me that there are parts missing for the hardware.

What do you mean?