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My Satellite Setup
Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
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John Pykett

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
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update: today got new freesat box, a humax hb-1000s.
 

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80cm Motorised.
Several small Dishes.
Much else.
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North York Moors
Do let us know what you think of it when it's all set up and working.
 

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
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Do let us know what you think of it when it's all set up and working.
its all setup. surprisingly its faster than the previous Manhattan box.
 

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Why surprising?

Your Humax is the latest generation, unlike my original Foxsat and Foxsat HDR, so surely would be expected to be faster and more responsive than older Freesat makes/models/variants?
 

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
My Location
Hucknall, United Kingdom
Why surprising?

Your Humax is the latest generation, unlike my original Foxsat and Foxsat HDR, so surely would be expected to be faster and more responsive than older Freesat makes/models/variants.
epg and red button load fast too
 
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Why surprising?

Your Humax is the latest generation, unlike my original Foxsat and Foxsat HDR, so surely would be expected to be faster and more responsive than older Freesat makes/models/variants?
Not necessarily... the latest Humax'es use a web-browser for the UI (all coded in HTML5), whereas I think the originals used a native-language UI process.
My 1010S feels slower than the FoxSat HDR, but I believe this is mostly due to attempts to use visual effects for scrolling rather than just updating the screen...

So even though the main CPU core on the SoC has gotten faster, the graphics requirements for the UI has become heavier.

But it's all a trade-off between making UIs quickly and bug-free, and performance.
Remember the smoothness of those old arcade games? (or even some of the games on microcomputers of the eighties...)
Took a loooong time to code properly - would be very expensive to do, QA, and maintain these days.
 

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
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Not necessarily... the latest Humax'es use a web-browser for the UI (all coded in HTML5), whereas I think the originals used a native-language UI process.
My 1010S feels slower than the FoxSat HDR, but I believe this is mostly due to attempts to use visual effects for scrolling rather than just updating the screen...

So even though the main CPU core on the SoC has gotten faster, the graphics requirements for the UI has become heavier.

But it's all a trade-off between making UIs quickly and bug-free, and performance.
Remember the smoothness of those old arcade games? (or even some of the games on microcomputers of the eighties...)
Took a loooong time to code properly - would be very expensive to do, QA, and maintain these days.
then how come you can still use the box without net if ui is html5?
 
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then how come you can still use the box without net if ui is html5?
Good question!
The answer is:

Because the HTML files of the UI is held on a local Flash-based RAM disk, so you don't need to be relying on a network connection for the box to work...
(HTML == HyperText Markup Language. Just another text file, really.)

HTML files does not need to be downloaded from a web-server, local versions of the HTML works just fine.
(In fact, that's the way your PC caches HTML content, it downloads the HTML files to your local HDD.)
 

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

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Good question!
The answer is:

Because the HTML files of the UI is held on a local Flash-based RAM disk, so you don't need to be relying on a network connection for the box to work...
(HTML == HyperText Markup Language. Just another text file, really.)

HTML files does not need to be downloaded from a web-server, local versions of the HTML works just fine.
(In fact, that's the way your PC caches HTML content, it downloads the HTML files to your local HDD.)
Thats interesting. is the ui on hb-1000s html5?
 

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strange im getting better quality on an European beam channel with this box
 

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strange im getting better quality on an European beam channel with this box

:-rofl2:-rofl2:-rofl2:-ohcrap

Not surprising as your in catchment area for all 28.2E beams.

European beam channels great here in Norway but not so the UKspot beams:-doh

Work in progress:D
 

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:-rofl2:-rofl2:-rofl2:-ohcrap

Not surprising as your in catchment area for all 28.2E beams.

European beam channels great here in Norway but not so the UKspot beams:-doh

Work in progress:D
i had different freesat box before which had lower quality on europe beam than this box i have now
 

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i had different freesat box before which had lower quality on europe beam than this box i have now

You can only truly compare these readings by using a common and independent metering device.

The metering designed into boxes is only indicative and shouldn't be relied upon either for accuracy or precision.
 

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IMG_20170309_152713.jpg here is a picture of my new box so much smaller than my previous freesat box
 

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Dish setup: 80cm Motorized Dish, TM-5402 HD M3. This setup goes from 1w to 28.2e

My computer setup: AMD Athlon II X4 645 3.10 GHz processor and 8GB of ram. Graphics Card is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti. OS: Windows 10 64 Bit
My Location
Hucknall, United Kingdom
oh the memories of this setup, maybe i could sell the old dish and box one day
 
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