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sparkles_I wrote: »

As i'm renting, and it's an apartment block, the landlord won't allow a dish to go up, so analogue NTL is the only option i have...

C

Is your apartment block not prewired for communal sat dishes ? This is nothing to do with your landlord other than he hasnt bother to get it connected if it is available (this you will find is a simple once off install fee preferably by your landlord and doesnot require subscribing to Sky). What normally happens in multi developments like apt blocks is the management fee paid by your landlord then covers the sat guys maintenance. You may find that the development has allowed NTL in and put no other options in place. Shocking!

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When you succesfully tune the DTT channels in (you will need a indoor aerial and a small signal booster). Get a small indoor aerial connect it and stick it on your window cill and come back and tell us what you get. If you recive the channels. Save em to your favourites and turn the network message for new services to off.

hi,

thanks so much for the help and advice.. I'm a non-starter when it goes to this and am trying to learn from scratch...

I can get rte1, tv3 an tg4 - with bad reception because i don't have a proper indoor aerial , but this is possible..

I do have a balcony, so depending on the satellite dish i could hide it, but to put one up, the cable woud need to go from the satellite dish to the tv? - and this would involve drilling a hole in the wall? if i'm right, i'm thinking i won't get the deposit back from the landlord..

I checked the roof in reference to an earlier post you had and the landlord only let NTL in, there are no dishes/antennae up there.. As its a small development of just 11 apartments, all owned by the same landlord (south dublin beside ucd build in celtic tiger years) , i wouldn't think he cared too much..

Tonight it seems as though the ntl signal doesn't work.. i never connected ntl, it just seemed to be there when i plugged in the cable and have been managing to get tv by runner that cable through my dvd recorder and not being able to record and watch at the same time.. As the ntl signal has gone, it's not an option anymore, so it's ether connect and pay for ntl digital or figure out how to put a dish on the balcony and get around the hole drilling as discreetly as possible so as not to lose my deposit..

I checked the links - the balcony is big enough to take a dish discreetly.. they'll see it if they look , but it's more the caretaker instead of the landlord that visits regularly, the landlord only does when it's to do with the 6 month checks and deposits - i can pull the curtain a little on that day...

This i probably a stupid question, but there's no way to stick up a small dish and have it work via the ntl point so there's no drilling involved? If there's anyway to put up a dish, i'm guessing that's my cheapest option rather than paying ntl a min. of €25 a month.. I sure am sorry that i tried to save money in the first place by buying the tv online without ever realising that it didn't have a compatible tuner...

i'm close to dunlaoghaire, so i entered this into www.satsig.net and selected 28.2 E Astra and got the details below so i'm guessing that a satellite dish might work? and that dish would give me free sat channels but not rte 1,2, tv3 etc. etc. and for that i'd need to get an indoor aerial, tune them to the dvb and save them as favourites and then turn the updates off?

Do you think i'll be able to put a dish without the drilling?

Thanks for all the help.. other than calling ntl , i wouldn' have a clue what to do or what my options are..

thanks again..
C
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Sam Russell wrote: »

You can get a flat coax cable that will pass through the jam of a window and require no holes. I got one with my Lidl set up. A simple indoor area will receive the DTT signal around UCD, no ptoblem. I live in Dublin 4 and can get it on a bent coathanger left under the carpet. The direction of the satellite is aprox where the sun is at 10 am, so if you can see the Sun at that time and could point a dish at it you will be able to get satellite. Hope this helps.

Yes no need to drill holes. Just fit one of these at the window. It flattens out the cable

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/F-Socket-Flat-Ribbon-Cable-Lead-Sky-Satellite-Cable-TV_W0QQitemZ330373898784QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ConEle_SatCableFreeview_RL?hash=item4cebd1a220

You then need to get two lengths of rg6 or ct100 cable and f-connectors to junction from this connector to connect to the sat dish and the TV.