Recent content by rewdan

my box is a manhatten, I think I got it from Argos about a year ago and it's really cheap but my LNB is a Black ultra and my dish is 1.5 m so this all helps I guess. When I aligned mine I found the easiest way was to take the TV and box out to the dish and use the reception signal on the Tv as I...

I don't know if this helps but I am currently in Ibiza at my house, before the switch over I spent about £30 on a freesat box from argos because I didn't want to commit to an expensive one until the new sat footprint had been established, I was bored with resetting my sky box and only ever...

now back in the uk and before I buy something, can you tell me if the freesat box will try to retune to the default transponder like the slybox does, meaning I have to change the transponder or will it just carry on giving me the free channels without bother?

I shall have to be patient and wait until the summer to see. Will probably be pestering you all again then, but thanks for the moment. Fingers crossed they don't mess it up for us expats! All the best.

yep, sorry fta. So do you think I am now in the clear for a freesat box, a few years ago it was a different situation and I was advised not to get a freesat on this forum back then. Could have been as many as 8 years ago, not sure but if we are going to live here I need to wire in 3 tv's to the...

can you recommend a better receiver than a sly digibox for someone like myself that is happy with the basic ftv channels . We are probably moving here in a couple of months so I guess we would like a hard drive recording device but other than that, just normal bbc etc.

so is there an optimum time not to use the EPG and therefore not bump into the default transponder?

Sorry I have been off for a couple of days, we are sharing my wifes laptop and I managed to open a virus and destroy loads of her work! Nearly a divorce situation. She has just let me back on and I can report that the box has gone back to 11.778, we seem to loose the epg but the rest of the...

Thanks again, I went to bed last night hoping the box would retune itself over night, but still nothing this morning. Was going to switch the dongle off but decided to check this thread first, put in 12051 as the default transponder, did a manual tune and all the channels came back straight...

but do I need a new default transponder or should I wait for the box to retune auotmatically

just changed the box for a nearly new sky plus box and it said the same thing, no signal being received. Could the wifi dongle be messing with the lnb? Not sure how it works. Problem I do have is that I will have no internet if I turn the wifi off, bit of a catch 22 when I need the advice from...

oddly, we have just purchased a wifi dongle for the house, I am using it right now to send you this. Could it be this? Also, do I need a default transponder for my box to work properly, the current on has no signal ?

thanks Tivu you guys are posting faster than I can type

Thanks Analoguesat, you helped me before a few years ago and it's all been good since then. Made a mistake, it's a pace box but last time you helped me out it was astra 2d and I kinda got my head around it, right now my telly is saying no satellite signal is being recieved but I know it is...

Ok, to add to the above, I have just used the services 401 select to find the default transponder and signal strength as posted above, went back to the tv and have lost all channels again. I am hoping the box will retune itself after hollyoaks has finished but I really have no idea what is going...