Mark_C89
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- Age
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- My Satellite Setup
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SKY+HD Box 250GB
Digital Maxx 1.1M Dish
LG 42" LD450
- My Location
- Poland
What I have at the moment is a 1.1M Maxx Digital Dish, and a Titanium Smart Twin LNB,
this connection is for my SKY+HD standard 500GB, box which I get so so signal on at the moment.
I'm looking for some advice on what equipment to get, including a reliable upgraded box.
Basically I live in northern Poland (Gdańsk area), and at the moment I get varied signal dependent on the channel I am on. Some channels are fanstastic signal quality and reception others not so good can even be as low as 20% but rather strangely I still receieve them with no problems. To give you an idea of what I get
:- Anything BBC or ITV (CH4 too) I don't receive.
I get all sky channels E.G. sky 1 HD, sky living it, all sky movies (in standard def only) apart from sky showcase which I oddly get in HD.
I get most disney children channels minus and quite a few others (boomerang etc.)
Also receiving channels like DMAX, quest, most discovery science stuff again as long as it's not in HD.
I can no longer recieve DAVE HD or now even dave SD, and have recently lost GOLD.
When I installed this at christmas time just gone, reception was steady and mostly 80% at most times regardless of channel (give or take a few), everything was fine up until a few months ago when I was watching dave hd, turned over them back again and gone ever since. I also then lost a few more a month later with things like gold being intermittent, however after a recent problem the list above is what I am left with. I looked for any transponder changes on the KINGOFSAT website and couldn't see any changes for the channels I have lost (after the date I lost them of course).
I had a chat with an installer before I made the install as I originally wanted him to do it, but after a few days he got back to me with "Oh you will need a 3M dish I've checked". I immediately thought codswallop as I had seen on a few polish forums people had received the channels with a much smaller dish some reporting perfect reception with 2.4M. Anyway on a whim and due to cost I went for the 1.1M because I got everything included, at the time I would say I got between 80 and 90% of what was available, so what I would like is some advice on what you guys think would do it to receive everything! If not pretty much everything. I couldn't go as far as 3M that would cost a fortune and I could only imagine putting that on the roof somehow (it's a flat roof).
I was hoping that maybe 1.8M could do it, as at the moment the 1.1M I have is on a pole on the balcony and 1.8M I would be quite happy installing stronger support, maybe a stand up pole on the back of the balcony (what kind of price would I be looking at)
Of course I am also looking to do a box upgrade possibly 1 - 2TB with built in WI-FI (I use a VPN for the box connection, so tracking the box is no problem, if sky even do that)
Much obliged for your time
Mark
this connection is for my SKY+HD standard 500GB, box which I get so so signal on at the moment.
I'm looking for some advice on what equipment to get, including a reliable upgraded box.
Basically I live in northern Poland (Gdańsk area), and at the moment I get varied signal dependent on the channel I am on. Some channels are fanstastic signal quality and reception others not so good can even be as low as 20% but rather strangely I still receieve them with no problems. To give you an idea of what I get
:- Anything BBC or ITV (CH4 too) I don't receive.
I get all sky channels E.G. sky 1 HD, sky living it, all sky movies (in standard def only) apart from sky showcase which I oddly get in HD.
I get most disney children channels minus and quite a few others (boomerang etc.)
Also receiving channels like DMAX, quest, most discovery science stuff again as long as it's not in HD.
I can no longer recieve DAVE HD or now even dave SD, and have recently lost GOLD.
When I installed this at christmas time just gone, reception was steady and mostly 80% at most times regardless of channel (give or take a few), everything was fine up until a few months ago when I was watching dave hd, turned over them back again and gone ever since. I also then lost a few more a month later with things like gold being intermittent, however after a recent problem the list above is what I am left with. I looked for any transponder changes on the KINGOFSAT website and couldn't see any changes for the channels I have lost (after the date I lost them of course).
I had a chat with an installer before I made the install as I originally wanted him to do it, but after a few days he got back to me with "Oh you will need a 3M dish I've checked". I immediately thought codswallop as I had seen on a few polish forums people had received the channels with a much smaller dish some reporting perfect reception with 2.4M. Anyway on a whim and due to cost I went for the 1.1M because I got everything included, at the time I would say I got between 80 and 90% of what was available, so what I would like is some advice on what you guys think would do it to receive everything! If not pretty much everything. I couldn't go as far as 3M that would cost a fortune and I could only imagine putting that on the roof somehow (it's a flat roof).
I was hoping that maybe 1.8M could do it, as at the moment the 1.1M I have is on a pole on the balcony and 1.8M I would be quite happy installing stronger support, maybe a stand up pole on the back of the balcony (what kind of price would I be looking at)
Of course I am also looking to do a box upgrade possibly 1 - 2TB with built in WI-FI (I use a VPN for the box connection, so tracking the box is no problem, if sky even do that)
Much obliged for your time
Mark