All posts by Sean
Below are all of Sean's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Dave,
It would fall under Islington Council's responsibility. We had new aerial sockets installed, though I don't know if they upgraded the rooftop aerial. Though a fair number of neighbours use satellite dishes. Perhaps this affects us?
We do indeed have the digital aerial socket in the living room split between the box in that room and one in the bedroom.
I tried plugging into the wall directly, and I still can't get the C22 or C28 channels. C23 is iffy. One of the signal levels was around 80% with zero quality (black screen). Perhaps the signal is too high?
I don't we have a powered splitter. As I said we did have a splitter-booster, but I hear that overloads the signal and is therefore obsolete in this digital era.
The boxes were bought last September and we had good quality, using the aforementioned splitter-booster, until late March, when we lost reception on most of the channels supposedly because the booster was overloading the increasing digital signal. We replaced that with the three-way splitter, and after it worked fine initially, we now have these unreliable muxes.
So perhaps we need either an attenuator, a powered splitter or an indoor aerial?
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Crystal Palace (Greater London, England) Full Freeview transmitWednesday 18 July 2012 11:12PM
London
Hi. In Highbury N5, we're losing the C28 channels at night. I rescanned in the hope of improving the signal and ended up losing the channels entirely. Signal levels are around 60-70%, but quality reads as nil. I will have to rescan another night and hope they come back.
I wonder how long this nonsense will go on for. I thought April was as bad as it could get. I'm sick of losing film recordings, et al, to unreliable signals.
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Monday 23 April 2012 4:32PM
London
Hi. I've been lurking on this site for weeks.
We live on the top floor of a block of flats near N5 2NL. We used to have a booster that served as a splitter to two Bush B320DTR boxes, but have now replaced that with a three way splitter as we were suffering bad reception since the end of March.
Now since the 18th we've had problems with a few muxes dropping out altogether on C22, C23, and C28. With retuning, sometimes the channels won't even appear in the list. One retune put the BBC channels on the channel 800 range, another retune put the COM5 mux channels there.
At first, we had gotten all the channels, but the reception seems so sensitive now that entire bands of channels are unwatchable at varying times of the day and is now totally unreliable.
Signal levels are around 70%, but quality is nil, with a black screen as a result. In fact, when trying a manual scan, the missing mux bands initially read as 'very good' before instantly reading as 'none'.
Do we buy an attenuator or an indoor aerial? Our building shares an aerial, so there's no way we can adjust it ourselves. This is very frustrating.