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Frequency trouble with chorus

  • 09-11-2008 5:44pm
    #1
    ianwalsh2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭


    Hi lads,
    The parents are just after getting chorus installed here last week. It's received through the mesh arial and is installed in two rooms. The technician at the time said it was possible it would crash, but only last tuesday it stopped working with the message displaying 'There may be a fault in the connection on your decoder. Please check.'

    So I went snooping through the menus and found under Menu>information>Signal Information that the frequency was 234000kHz, the signal strength to be roughly 70 but the Quality to be zero.

    I then went into Menu>installation>Set top Box installation>Network Configuration and found the freuency to be = 330,000kHz!?

    Went back into Signal information and changed frequency to 330,000 and the Quality shot up to about 95%. Thought I had the problem solved, but when I went back to watch TV I was still getting the same message. Went back into the Signal information and the frequency had gone back to 234,000kHz!!

    Anybody got any ideas? It took Chorus/NTL/UPC or whoever almost 4 months to get their asses out here in the first place to install it, so god knows how long it will take them to come out and fix it themselves!


Comments

  • #2
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    The box will pick up the freq itself automatically, if anything is loose or a bad connection it will fail, Chorus MMDS do not display the signal strenght so are you sure its a genuine Chorus box..


  • #3
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    3.3Ghz falls with in wireless broadband frequencies, not MMDS TV. It's possible that your box is seeing 'something' at that frequency, but it's not a DVB-T signal.


  • #4
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    steveon wrote: »
    Chorus MMDS do not display the signal strenght

    mine does, and it's currently at 362,000 and working fine.

    I've no idea what the problem is other than to suggest checking the connections and that the mast/mesh haven't fallen over or anything.


  • #5
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    steveon wrote: »
    The box will pick up the freq itself automatically, if anything is loose or a bad connection it will fail, Chorus MMDS do not display the signal strenght so are you sure its a genuine Chorus box..

    Yes, at least one Sagem Chorus box does. The 330,000,000Hz (330MHz, 0.33GHZ or 330,000kHz) is the cable down conversion channel. MMDS uses similar frequencies to VHF TV/ Cable on its cable as the 2.6GHz is converted to 270MHz to 370MHz approx at the dish.


    The box/card may have lost authorisation, in which case a phone call and UPC/Chorus signal on air with no visit may fix it.


  • #6
    steveon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,905 ✭✭✭steveon


    The displayed picture you added doesnt give the full operating parameter, there is a secret menu used by Chorus Installers to show the full parameters, been a while since I installed them but I know it accessed by going into one of the menus and then pressing red, green and then blue and then hitting right and left to see the 3 pages of information....


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