signal - confused...

leahyt8 · Aug 23, 2014

Hi all bit confused and didn't know where to put this post
heres the scenario----

sky dish on roof
dm500 in upstairs bedroom
living room VU+ Duo ( previously dm 800se)

upstairs dm500 signal 93% on bbc with high 80's% Acg 0% BER
high sig remains on all other channels glitch free

downstairs!!
78% snr 70's% acg and ber..
drops to 40 - 65% on other channels .. some don't clear and others have regular glitch...

ran new cable and tested it in both upstairs and downstairs rooms...

signals are constant so def not the cable....

any ideas??

cheers

Tam

AJT · Aug 23, 2014

How is it cabled..one LNB with quad connections or split feeds?

Abu Baniaz · Aug 23, 2014

Try a differnt port on the LNB

Ferret · Aug 23, 2014

Different receivers will give different signal readings and behave differently one may lock a signal the other may not.

The duo is reading lower, id look at dish alignment.

leahyt8 · Aug 23, 2014

AJT said:
How is it cabled..one LNB with quad connections or split feeds?

AJT - One lnb with quad connection..
Abu - done that and nothing - the same port that gives me 90% on the Dm500 gives the low sig on the Vu
Ferret - any suggestions? as the dm500 is rock solid and whoever fitted sky for the punter next door took 2 ports for sky HD without me knowing. so assume he's rock solid too??

cheers guys

digi247 · Aug 23, 2014

leahyt8 said:
AJT - One lnb with quad connection..
Abu - done that and nothing - the same port that gives me 90% on the Dm500 gives the low sig on the Vu
Ferret - any suggestions? as the dm500 is rock solid and whoever fitted sky for the punter next door took 2 ports for sky HD without me knowing. so assume he's rock solid too??

cheers guys

Hold on a minute your saying that the next door neighbour has a twin feed from your satellite dish into his property

leahyt8 · Aug 23, 2014

the house is a semi and the dish ( that i fitted) is on the chimney that we both share.. went up one day and it had an extra 2 feed goes into his hoose
from the looks of it though i think it must av been an engineer that did it..

digi247 · Aug 24, 2014

So basically you have 2 different houses with different mains supply feeding 1 quad LNB can lead to problems, had a similar situation a few years ago where so called 'Special Heights' had stuck 1 single dish with quad lnb onto a 3 storey and shared it with next door, Problems arise when 1 house lost signal due to the other house i simply disconnected next doors feeds and Voilà problem solved. Got a call back a couple of month later to fit a separate dish for next door.

Virgin also seem to do this practise with cable when they cant be arsed to get a new feed from the pavement its a case of "Oh! lets just tap into next doors its only a couple of feet away" LOL

leahyt8 · Aug 24, 2014

digi247 said:
So basically you have 2 different houses with different mains supply feeding 1 quad LNB can lead to problems, had a similar situation a few years ago where so called 'Special Heights' had stuck 1 single dish with quad lnb onto a 3 storey and shared it with next door, Problems arise when 1 house lost signal due to the other house i simply disconnected next doors feeds and Voilà problem solved. Got a call back a couple of month later to fit a separate dish for next door.

Virgin also seem to do this practise with cable when they cant be arsed to get a new feed from the pavement its a case of "Oh! lets just tap into next doors its only a couple of feet away" LOL

cheers digi - that happened on my last place with VM so not sure why i never twigged.. they been in house bout a year and thats how long the signal has bothered me!!
not really enough room for another dish there .. can you boost signal at all??
i'm assuming a new lnb won't sort it was going to put a feed into the dining room and put an octo lnb on??

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