All posts by Helen Stanley
Below are all of Helen Stanley's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Helen Stanley:I didn't tell you that the aerial is on top of the longest pole we could find in the hope of improving this situation. It is now at least 12 feet away from any local obstruction, but of course we can't move the Breiddens! PPS I Didn't choose the big black shouty writing in the first post, it just came up when I posted. Honest! Thanks if you can find any answers.
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MikeB: Third time lucky, now this signal is on the blink!
Thank you MikeB for your suggestions.
As this happens so often, we now have a routine and so always check back to the aerial which we have made easily accessible for this purpose, no problems from that source so far.
We only have one tv as more would be just too frustrating, so no signal splitting issues.
We have no dish as all of the companies we have approached tell us the same, hill too high and us too low in front of it, meaning that the dish can't pick up signals.
We have the same issues with internet, no broadband as phone connection is not reliable (24 engineers so far), dongle not man enough for the job, MiFi works when the mood suits it at about a third of a meg speed.
Don't know about Freesat, we're reluctant to spend even more money!
MiFi people said 4G is blocking our signal and we need to buy a signal blocker, but no-one in Shrewsbury seems to know what we are talking about!
Having looked at tonight's programmes, I'm not sure why we're trying to sort this out!!
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MikeB Just had a read about Freesat and it seems to need a dish, so that looks like it isn't an option. Dishes are also not allowed in this village (it's in private ownership and protected), so that compounds the problem for those of us in a difficult setting.
MiFi man was talking about our Freeview signal when he said 4G was blocking it, not the internet.
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Monday 4 August 2014 7:21PM
Shrewsbury
Briantist: I'm getting really sick of losing all Freeview channels on a very frequent basis and BBC group of channels even more often.
Our aerial has been checked and is ok.
The signal can go for at least two hours and sometimes two or three days. We have replaced our equipment. We have had no signal on four separate pieces of equipment since 16.10 tonight and it is now come back on, whilst we were doing nothing to encourage it.
We repeatedly follow your re-tune advice, but it makes no difference whatsoever, other than to really irritate us.
We have to use Winter Hill, despite it's enormous distance and region from us. We have a big hill behind us and sit on magnetic Dolorite rock. Post code SY5 9AY, village Criggion. Is this neglected bit of border Wales of no importance to Freeview?