Recomment a good digisender

Jip

I've had a decent enought one for years now and it seems to be on its way out, doesn't always transmit the remote signal and the reception can drop out particularly on very bright scenes such as snow etc.
Are the one-for-alls cheap and cheerful as they seem to be the most common or should I get a better one ?
Don't want to go down the wired route as it seems a bit like too much hassle.

Darth Maul

Jip wrote: »

I've had a decent enought one for years now and it seems to be on its way out, doesn't always transmit the remote signal and the reception can drop out particularly on very bright scenes such as snow etc.
Are the one-for-alls cheap and cheerful as they seem to be the most common or should I get a better one ?
Don't want to go down the wired route as it seems a bit like too much hassle.

From my experience none of them seem to work anyway satisfactory, they all seem very flaky, from the very cheapest to the dearer ones, there just seems to be too much interference on the band they use to be acceptable, they use the same band as WIFI,

Jip

That's the thing, the one I have worked fine for years with the only interference coming from the wireless boradband but we'd never had both on at the same time anyway.

The one in the argos catalog is good- [ circa €119]
I've got it going to two receivers.
Picture quality is crisp and sound is grand stereo.

Jip

I got myself a 5.8Ghz digisender over the weekend as it working perfectly. Picture quality is good but the most noticable different is the sound qaulity. With the previous one there was always this background hum which is non existent now.
And there's no interference from our wirelss router. Previously we could never have both on at the same time, the picture was messed up by the router and router access was interupted by the digisender.

leex

If router and digisender are clashing you should be able to change the channel (frequency) of the router to clear/assist this issue.

See wifi channel table here - http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=413459. There is significant overlap on the channels so if your router is at channel 1 for example, it would be worth changing it to channel 6 next, 10/11 then etc.

Jip

Yeah, tried everything with the previous model, it's a fairly old one at this stage so suffered some form of interference no matter what channel it was set to. I'd would reckon because we could view a whole list of routers from our house so even if our own didn't interfere the chances are is that someone else does.
Odly it was never affected by the microwave which seems to be a common enough problem.

fat-tony

Jip wrote: »

I got myself a 5.8Ghz digisender over the weekend as it working perfectly. Picture quality is good but the most noticable different is the sound qaulity. With the previous one there was always this background hum which is non existent now.
And there's no interference from our wirelss router. Previously we could never have both on at the same time, the picture was messed up by the router and router access was interupted by the digisender.

Oops :eek: the 5.8GHz spectrum is reserved here in Ireland for fixed wireless network operation. i.e. what you're using is not legal. Did you buy that digisender here?

Jip

Yes I did and I don't really care if they're illegal, they're openly on sale in many places in Ireland.

deffin

fat-tony wrote: »

Oops :eek: the 5.8GHz spectrum is reserved here in Ireland for fixed wireless network operation. i.e. what you're using is not legal. Did you buy that digisender here?

Maplins openly sell these (see their latest special offers mag - a nikkai for €91.99 from €131.99) so i don't know how illegal it can be then.How can it be illegal in your own home.?

fat-tony

You can register that you're operating in that band here - http://www.comreg.ie/licensing_and_services/5_8_ghz_registration.683.ghzlic.html

fat-tony

deffin wrote: »

Maplins openly sell these (see their latest special offers mag - a nikkai for €91.99 from €131.99) so i don't know how illegal it can be then.How can it be illegal in your own home.?

It's the operation of the device that is regulated - not the selling!