FTA Recviver on Broadband, Not dish!!

jedistev

Hi

i am living in home in deep forest enchanced...:)...i having hell hard time without any channel on tv.....

i have already post before but still no good, cos i have hire every different sky or satettlie installer, they said they cant get any receive on sky or FTA,

funny things i can get broadband working in my home but not SKY or FTA....

just wonder possible can i get FTA on broadband without dish.. it would be ideal or dream talk..cos i have try search, all i get spam like free channell on PC, i dont want it

i want FTA Reciver connect ethernet port from router and can get all FTA.. if you know about it, please help me

my wife miss it badly and she going have new baby this week, she want tv cos help her relax...

with last hope on boards people

(p.s dont ask me to sell house, i am on recession )

watty

Not possible.

install a 20m mast for the dish?

Buy box sets of DVDs.

jedistev

buy box set of DVD

done that...running out of it, been spend over 200-300 euro of cheap R9 china DVD and have enough of it

and getting sick of it

and 20m mast, out of question due to healthy and safty, and Wicklow Council wont like this

thank for trying...

bittihuduga

i always thought u can get satellite channels from anywhere in ireland.
can you not get sky fta channels with a 80cm or 100cm dish?

what kind of forest are you in that you dont have a clear sky for the dish?

byte

bittihuduga wrote: »

i always thought u can get satellite channels from anywhere in ireland.
can you not get sky fta channels with a 80cm or 100cm dish?

what kind of forest are you in that you dont have a clear sky for the dish?

Surrounded by trees that are too close and much taller than the house, I'd imagine.

Psygnosis

I know this might sound a bit daft but could you attach to a tree and paint it army green

lawhec

bittihuduga wrote: »

i always thought u can get satellite channels from anywhere in ireland.
can you not get sky fta channels with a 80cm or 100cm dish?

what kind of forest are you in that you dont have a clear sky for the dish?

Factors like forests are the reasons why satellite cannot give 100% coverage even within its footprint. Wherever you are, your receiving dish must have a clear line of sight to the satellite. If this isn't possible, due to anything blocking it e.g. trees, mountain (if you live in a deep valley), high-rise buildings, no size of dish will help.

An aunt of mine has a similar problem, a small forest lies next to her house towards the south-east which means that the satellite dish has to be well elevated above the eaves to get LOS - the side effect is that the pole has to be reasonably long on the first place and the effects of wind mean than it often "wobbles" and temporarily loses signal.

tomslick

Maybe you should look at sky player system.

http://skyplayer.sky.com/vod/page/tvListing.do

It allows you to watch some channels live via the internet and lots of other stuff can be watched on demand. You'll need to have a subscription to sky or the player to get it but you could always get someone with sky to register and give you access.

watty

A) Use up cap in about a week
Limited quality and content

KeRbDoG

What is blocking your reception of satellite signals? Trees? Buildings?

jedistev

mmmm

paint Green, sound nice,

yep i live in bottom of V shape Valley, and my back garden is way closed ( approx 25m aways to forest and it all way to top of valley. and closer tree size is more than over 100 feet or more

i have look on demand, and it's not good for me cos i need subtitles badly...

and i use watch BBC Iplayer for few months before xmas,then suddenly stop cos not based in Ireland..i don't know how i got through!

seems best way is underground cable.. but not in my area... thank for trying i will look up, more work for me

jedistev

to give idea what it look like!

this photo is taken at top floor in my house
and excuse on mess in garden

CHW

I take it that the dish needs to point in that direction to get the satellite you want.

How far out the front of the house does your garden extend? Dish doesn't have to be attached to house for line-of-sight, but you may be limited to length of cable possible.

jedistev

my front garden is small and it cud de sac area with 30 house only my lane don't have sky, about 10 house in my lane cannot get sky, but opps house in my front garden

they all have sky in front house... they are 20 meters aways from my front garden...

coffee to go

Is your estate visible on google maps? If so, you could work out where your dish could go and what it height it would need to be using http://www.dishpointer.com/

Or post your google maps location here and someone will work it out for you.

johnb25

It is quite windy out today......
who knows what kind of damage it could do...
do you know anyone with a bulldozer!!

jedistev

Neat

it can show on google map with visble, you can see how heavy forest is

http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.964127,-6.143476&spn=0.004976,0.010943&z=17

or search belard manor, Glenealy, wicklow, and you will see all signal we get pass through forest

unless i want watch asia or russia or non-english, i might lucky :pac:

CHW

You really need to check the dishpointer link. I've attached an example of one of the houses in that area. If your house is along the same road, the LOS isn't straight out the back, but diagonally across your back garden. With moderate height, you might be lucky.

coffee to go

Without knowing which your house is, it's a guess. Certainly the valley isn't an issue:




Clearing the trees is the main issue. Say for this house:



If you could get the dish right up on the side wall at the apex of the roof, the tops of the trees could be no higher than 12m above the dish height. Which is possible.

I've driven past that estate several times, so I know what the landscape is like. Remember that although the dishes look like they're pointing into the forest, they're actaully looking much higher than that, as seen in the first image.

jedistev

that correct, seems right where i live, seems i gotta find plan 'c' or 'd' or 'e'

CHW

If your house is indeed along the row in coffee to go's pictures, it may be possible to set the dish on a wall in the gap between houses - the LOS and gap look to be almost parallel. Even a few meters back might help with clearing any trees that are in the way. And trees tend top grow upwards as well, so could become a problem again in the future! If it was my house, I'd be figuring out where the limit is, and then give myself some comfortable margin to play with.

jedistev

seems

i was thinking try expand my head to see if good idea, i have put x and o on image to put dish on it


see what you think...

coffee to go

No, that's unlikely to do the job. You need the dishes to be as far from the trees and as high up as possible. Like this, with the dishes pointing over your house into the back garden.

jedistev

lol...

i near spill my coffee lol!!!when see photo on my home area... seems ideally

i gotta try ask installer.. but most installer wont come my house when i mention my home address.. they said ahhh! no no cannot...

look like i gotta try myself and test out by DIY..i gotta look up tools for myself

coffee to go

Maybe contact Tony at satellite.ie - He should be able to provide you with all the DIY equipment you need, except a drill, ladder and a head for heights.

watty

The elevation is about 21 degrees. so you need too be twice the distance from a tree as the difference between hieght of tree and dish

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