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Just done quick check on 11495V. 1.2mtr dish located Fuerteventura (canary islands). Readings more or less (within 1db) same as have been for last few years. If 901 is the active bird now then footprint here does not seem to have changed.

Bit late replying. In Fuerteventura you can get BT sports on a quality 4.5 mtr dish. Not much margin for rain fade but certainly do-able although may have to sacrifice some transponders on the UK beam ie maximise 2E then will struggle with 2F & 2G etc and vice versa. Tenerife was in the past...

Again out here on our little rock. Just been informed that towards end of year we could be offered an upgrade from 600Mbit synchronous to 1Gbit synchronous.....bit of a jump in a year going from 6-8 Mbit ADSl to 1 Gbit. The 600/600 with unlimited landline (local area) mobile 200mins and 5Gig...

Out here on Fraggle rock (Fuerteventura) now finally up and running with FTTH. 600Mb synchronous....not bad for a little rock in the Atlantic

On my little rock in the atlantic i get 8.7M d/l via movistar adsl2...well at least i do until about 6pm when all the iptv systems seem to kick in and my speed can drop as low as 0.3M with high ping, loads of jitter and dropped packets galore

been looking at one of these myself...what sort of speed is the spectrum all i can find from rover is fast but what do they define as fast....looking for something like the spectrum on a promax or similar (or at least fast enough to be totally usable)..cheers

thanks to all. Do like the look of the hd ranger and i guess the lite or ultralite would be more than adequate. Still a bit over budget. Will be sticking in a silly bid on that one on ebay but doubt I will get it for what i bid. No comments on the rover stc...guess that says a lot and presume...

Currently have an emitor satlook HD which is fine for 28.2E/19E etc over here in the canary islands but find it does struggle locking on some of the HD signals. (Will not lock on to 27.5W despite spectrum showing everything and technomate receivers showing 75% quality). Also lock is a little...

1.2 tecatel in fuerteventura with black ultra gives 71% quality on tm5402. No problem with signal (apart from equinox etc)

AS......shhhhhhhh please dont tell mr murdoch. My customer paid a fortune for the 5 mtr dish!!! Now that is dedication to TV watching. Fisty...cheers, thought that might be the case as when I spoke to them and got more info they said it seemed to come back in time for neighbours. I guess they...

Or you could get a uk subscription via Northern Ireland as this will also open up RTE etc. Although mine has a slight problem in so much as about 1.30 each day (just after news) I get the message that ´this program is not available´´. Although after a short while everything goes back to normal.

From right out on the fringe I have tested a few different receivers. Yesterday compared a TM5300 super, Amstrad DRX890 HD box and Hirschmann S hd203. On same channel the technomate was severe pixellation, the amstrad just about ok but the hirschmann was clear. Hoping to test the hirschmann...

gracias to all........sometimes the simplest solution escapes us all. Now to just find a decent sat shop in the canary islands!!

Have a slight problem.... current configuration is Terrestrial antenna and sky dish connected to a tv/sat combiner then a cable through the house internal wiring eventually ends up at the tv point (tv/sat splitter) where the terrestrial then goes to tv and the sat to a sky HD stb. Need to add...

Not sure if right section for this. Have got a client running some sky boxes remotely (part of a residential complex distribution system) In the past they used sky sd boxes but now are using amstrad drx890 receivers and the smc controller which was used before (version 2.04 ) now no longer...