Walker STB Problems

cabledude

STB wrote: »

Kitchen Box settings

Is this a different box you have in the Kitchen ?

Have you tried the Walker in the Kitchen ?

Whats the signal strength like on the walker in the kitchen ?

this will rule out issues with the Walker Box.

Hi STB. I already did this to eliminate the box as being the issue. Identical boxes.

Anyway heres what I did to remedy the situation.

F-Type splitter in the attic instead of the 'cheap' plastic one. This made no difference at all.

So this morning I decided to run a new cable to the aeriel from the sitting room. I joined up the new cable to the old one and pulled it, very slowly and carefully, back to the splitter in the atttic. Hooked it up to the splitter and went down and hooked a co-ax connector to the other end. Plugged it into the box and 'No channels added came up'......Oh sh1te, whats wrong here? So I went into the installation menu and did an Automatic scan. Hey presto!!

As I said earlier in the thread, we had a mouse, a couple actually, get into the crawl space. One of them obviously had a feast on the TV cables. Problem solves.

Thanks for all the input lads.

Peter Rhea

How far did the mouse manage to eat through the cable?

cabledude

Peter Rhea wrote: »

How far did the mouse manage to eat through the cable?

I don't know Peter. I didn't actually pull out the entirety of the old cable. A lot of it was twisting and turning in joists under ply that was nailed down. I pull through the conduit until I was above the ceiling and then ran the new cable and tacked it to the roof joists up to the splitter. But, for a finish yesterday, I could get no signal at all. So he must have gone through a fair distance. Obviously, I cannot prove it was Mr. Mouse, but I cannot come up with any other reason for the breakdown.

I'm now getting 100% Signal quality and 70% signal strength.

steveon

cabledude wrote: »

Hi STB. I already did this to eliminate the box as being the issue. Identical boxes.

Anyway heres what I did to remedy the situation.

F-Type splitter in the attic instead of the 'cheap' plastic one. This made no difference at all.

So this morning I decided to run a new cable to the aeriel from the sitting room. I joined up the new cable to the old one and pulled it, very slowly and carefully, back to the splitter in the atttic. Hooked it up to the splitter and went down and hooked a co-ax connector to the other end. Plugged it into the box and 'No channels added came up'......Oh sh1te, whats wrong here? So I went into the installation menu and did an Automatic scan. Hey presto!!

As I said earlier in the thread, we had a mouse, a couple actually, get into the crawl space. One of them obviously had a feast on the TV cables. Problem solves.

Thanks for all the input lads.

Glad you got it sorted mate :-)

STB

cabledude wrote: »

As I said earlier in the thread, we had a mouse, a couple actually, get into the crawl space. One of them obviously had a feast on the TV cables. Problem solves.

Thanks for all the input lads.

You really should leave some cheese out, mice cannot survive on coax and screening alone...:)

cabledude

STB wrote: »

You really should leave some cheese out, mice cannot survive on coax and screening alone...:)

I know, how inconsiderate of me. Wildly off topic, they seem more attracted to chocolate than cheese. The cheese thing is an unfair stereotype :0

Anyway I also found out where the little buggers were getting in. The guy who fitted my Sky dish used a quad LNB and I ran in cables from the 2 spare ports. We ran them in through an insect screen and we had inadvertently made the opening larger, thereby laying a little red carpet for them. Half a roll of insulating tape later and problem solved.......