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Poor Freesat reception - advice and anybody in the CT10 area that could check dish alignment etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="Ron-ski" data-source="post: 1101763" data-attributes="member: 416112"><p>Thanks for the further suggestions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You'd think it would be easy to move the server, well it's not hard, but its was harder than it should be, as Mediaportal wouldn't work - turns out it doesn't like a change of IP address, I had to use the 1Gbps port which is on a different IP than the 10Gbps port. Once that was sorted out I then found there was no difference in quality, with constant picture break up's.</p><p></p><p>So clearly it must be something to do with the card, I had changed the slot the card was in recently, but I was sure I did this after the more pronounced reception issues started, but it could have been before. So I checked the card for dry joints, all looked OK, and decided to move it up one slot up. This meant there was one free slot either side of the tuner card, my 10Gb SFP+ card was two slots up, and my Rocket Raid two slots down. The tuner was originally in the top slot, when I installed the SFP+ card I moved it down to the slot above the Rocket Raid card.</p><p></p><p>Once I'd coaxed MP back into life as it sees the card as a new card when it's in a different slot I found I had no reception issues, signal strength/quality levels didn't look any different but there's been no pixelation - usually it's apparent straight away. I can only assume that the Rocket Raid card was causing interference.</p><p></p><p>Now this does lead to another issue, I'm considering upgrading the server motherboard/CPU/Ram and PSU as it's now all ten years old, and I don't currently have any E-ATX motherboards on my shortlist, current options would mean the tuner ends up next to the other two cards. Actually looking at the motherboards I have in mind the tuner will be at the bottom, and would have a one slot gap above it as its a blank slot, so it may well be OK.</p><p></p><p>I may just get a DVB-T2 card, as I don't need satellite, just ended up with satellite as that was where the HD channels first became available, and to be honest it does cause issues with the EPG in MP, although I don't know how well our aerial performs with HD channels.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, thanks to everyone for their input, at least it looks like we have decent reception once again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ron-ski, post: 1101763, member: 416112"] Thanks for the further suggestions. You'd think it would be easy to move the server, well it's not hard, but its was harder than it should be, as Mediaportal wouldn't work - turns out it doesn't like a change of IP address, I had to use the 1Gbps port which is on a different IP than the 10Gbps port. Once that was sorted out I then found there was no difference in quality, with constant picture break up's. So clearly it must be something to do with the card, I had changed the slot the card was in recently, but I was sure I did this after the more pronounced reception issues started, but it could have been before. So I checked the card for dry joints, all looked OK, and decided to move it up one slot up. This meant there was one free slot either side of the tuner card, my 10Gb SFP+ card was two slots up, and my Rocket Raid two slots down. The tuner was originally in the top slot, when I installed the SFP+ card I moved it down to the slot above the Rocket Raid card. Once I'd coaxed MP back into life as it sees the card as a new card when it's in a different slot I found I had no reception issues, signal strength/quality levels didn't look any different but there's been no pixelation - usually it's apparent straight away. I can only assume that the Rocket Raid card was causing interference. Now this does lead to another issue, I'm considering upgrading the server motherboard/CPU/Ram and PSU as it's now all ten years old, and I don't currently have any E-ATX motherboards on my shortlist, current options would mean the tuner ends up next to the other two cards. Actually looking at the motherboards I have in mind the tuner will be at the bottom, and would have a one slot gap above it as its a blank slot, so it may well be OK. I may just get a DVB-T2 card, as I don't need satellite, just ended up with satellite as that was where the HD channels first became available, and to be honest it does cause issues with the EPG in MP, although I don't know how well our aerial performs with HD channels. Anyway, thanks to everyone for their input, at least it looks like we have decent reception once again :D [/QUOTE]
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