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<blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 1056400" data-attributes="member: 176256"><p>No, what we were asking was do you have a subscription to $ly. You are simply using an expired or Freesat-from-$ly card to regionalise a $ly box. You are then using the $ly box to watch the FTA (free to air) channels, not the encrypted ones.</p><p></p><p>Most encrypted $ly channels are on a European beam and can be received with a smaller dish than is needed for the FTA channels in Europe. The further south into Spain you go the larger the dish size you need. As an example, in France near to Avignon I use an 85cm dish on our house to get the FTA channels. But this is really too small and for a better quality of reception I need to put up a 1m dish. As you go further south, apart from a few local anomalies, you generally need larger and larger dishes until when you are down near Gibraltar I believe that you need something in excess of 3m.</p><p></p><p>The other alternative, as others have said, is to look for English language channels on other satellites that have stronger signals.</p><p></p><p>Another thought - what sort of mobile phone contract do you have? If your data cost is low enough you might think about streaming channels over the internet. You would need to arrange for a VPN (virtual private network) though. Another internet solution that wouldn't need a VPN would be to use a device called a Slingbox.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulR, post: 1056400, member: 176256"] No, what we were asking was do you have a subscription to $ly. You are simply using an expired or Freesat-from-$ly card to regionalise a $ly box. You are then using the $ly box to watch the FTA (free to air) channels, not the encrypted ones. Most encrypted $ly channels are on a European beam and can be received with a smaller dish than is needed for the FTA channels in Europe. The further south into Spain you go the larger the dish size you need. As an example, in France near to Avignon I use an 85cm dish on our house to get the FTA channels. But this is really too small and for a better quality of reception I need to put up a 1m dish. As you go further south, apart from a few local anomalies, you generally need larger and larger dishes until when you are down near Gibraltar I believe that you need something in excess of 3m. The other alternative, as others have said, is to look for English language channels on other satellites that have stronger signals. Another thought - what sort of mobile phone contract do you have? If your data cost is low enough you might think about streaming channels over the internet. You would need to arrange for a VPN (virtual private network) though. Another internet solution that wouldn't need a VPN would be to use a device called a Slingbox. [/QUOTE]
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