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Sorry for the questions! The thing is, if the satellite name on the reciever is just a convenience, then why would I get full signal strength and quality on HotBird (which was in actual fact 7.0E), but selecting a different satellite on the reciever would say it has 0% signal quality? E.g. 1) I...

Right, that makes sense now! But, how then as suggested by Mickha would I then be able to: If whatever the reciever is pointing at is just a convenience rather than a hard fact?

Hi there Mickha, That's precisely my problem. The reciever was showing fantastic strength for Hotbird, then after a blind search it found all the channels on a different satellite.

Would a half decent set top box be capable of this as well, or would it still get confused between satellites? I have been given a spiderbox HD 7000, which from what I gather is much newer than my box, but have yet to set it up.

I'm afraid I don't have any photos at the moment and I'm nowhere near the dish... When you say a sat meter, I'm assuming you mean something better than a £5 thing from eBay that just shows the signal strength?

So, the satellites do transmit the name (or at least a unique ID), but not all boxes will pick this up? In which case it is possible I just changed the box to HotBird and as I found a valid signal, it assumed it was hotbird - correct? Actually just to add - if the box is not correctly...

I have just replaced my old satellite system with a much newer system, in particular a Mix Digital 1.1m mesh dish, a 4 way LNB holder along with 3 LNBs (Inverto Black Single Ultra 0.2dB High-Gain Low-Noise LNB). I am currently using a Technomate TM-1500 CI* Super set top box and it has been okay...