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Message: <blockquote data-quote="davygora" data-source="post: 672513" data-attributes="member: 344621">Oh... Well... what I meant with the signal quality from other satellites was the following: when I enter the menu and go to the page where I can scan specific transponders, I can not only choose the transponder characteristics (frequency, symbol rate, polarization) but also choose a satellite (Astra 1B 19.2E, Hotbird 13E, Türksat 42E, Sirius2 5.0E, AMOS\ATLANTIC4, EUTE\W3A, A\BIRD3\WES). In the bottom of the screen there are two bars which indicate the signal strength and its quality. For ASTRA they are both near 75%. For other satellites, the strength is near 35% and the quality is near 10%.Unless there was a major bug in the firmware when the stb was released for general sale which is preventing a user from doing a complete search of all horizontal and vertical channels available on 19.2 East then re-flashing the firmware will not gain you anything.Well, they are digital and the receiver is a digital one. I can give you the full list of transponders where the receiver does find channels, if it helps. For example, the most german channels (Das Erste, SWR, BR, BR-alpha, WDR, etc.) I receive from transponder with frequency 12687 MHz, rate 27492 KS/s and horizontal polarization. According to the channel list from ASTRA-SES website, the parameters for these channels should be 11836 MHz, 27500 KS/s, horizontal polarization. This is a little strange to me that the frequency seems to be quite different. What is also strange that the receiver calls the satellite ASTRA 1B, although the 1B should have been shut down in 2006 and now they are supposed to be 1KR, 1L, 1M and 1H.I also can, for example, receive Al Jazeera (english) on 11509 Mhz, 22000 KS/s, V. As said, if needed, I can do a full scan again and look up the transponders that work for me.In my appartment it is just a typical coaxial slot just like for normal cable or antenna, i.e. with only two phases. I used an adapter to connect my receiver to it. How the signal comes to me, I don't know and asking the neighbours probably won't help at all, but I'll try. Too bad that I myself know almost nothing about the stuff. I think the best way will be indeed to borrow their receiver and see what it does when connected in my appartment. As I understand it (correct me, please, if I'm wrong): if I still don't receive the channels that I'm not receiving, then the problem is with the "wired", otherwise it's a problem with my cheap anonymous receiver.</blockquote>

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