Keith G
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- My Satellite Setup
- Dual LNB, Humax Foxsat HDR and Sky+HD
- My Location
- Luxembourg
My 1st post so go easy...
I have a dual LNB, Sky+ box upstairs, Humax box downstairs.
Everything has been fine up until a couple of weeks or so ago when the Sky box started getting a blocky signal on some channels ITV3, Film 4, briefly dropping out completely, this happens pretty much from switching on. Humax downstairs was perfect.
1st thing I did was swap the cables at the LNB to see if one of the outputs was duff. Still had the same problem.
So I moved the boxes to check if it's the line in. I moved the Sky box downstairs and the Humax box upstairs. Everything was perfect for a few couple of hours. Sky box is still perfect downstairs, but the Humax started OK, but is now dropping the signal... this is after 3 hours.
When the signal is OK I have pretty much 100% quality and strength on the line upstairs... Humax, 90% quality and 75% strength on the line downstairs... sky box (the sky box is still perfect) .
So the upstairs signal took a few hours to start dropping out on the Humax, but immediately on the Sky box. So, I'm thinking that it is a cable issue, where the Sky box is more sensitive to a bad line than the Humax, or that it's weather, atmospherics i.e. later in the evening ? or something else ? Could it be water ingress on the cable ?
The Humax is now losing the signal every 30secs or so but only for a flash of a second and then is back to full strength.
I have a dual LNB, Sky+ box upstairs, Humax box downstairs.
Everything has been fine up until a couple of weeks or so ago when the Sky box started getting a blocky signal on some channels ITV3, Film 4, briefly dropping out completely, this happens pretty much from switching on. Humax downstairs was perfect.
1st thing I did was swap the cables at the LNB to see if one of the outputs was duff. Still had the same problem.
So I moved the boxes to check if it's the line in. I moved the Sky box downstairs and the Humax box upstairs. Everything was perfect for a few couple of hours. Sky box is still perfect downstairs, but the Humax started OK, but is now dropping the signal... this is after 3 hours.
When the signal is OK I have pretty much 100% quality and strength on the line upstairs... Humax, 90% quality and 75% strength on the line downstairs... sky box (the sky box is still perfect) .
So the upstairs signal took a few hours to start dropping out on the Humax, but immediately on the Sky box. So, I'm thinking that it is a cable issue, where the Sky box is more sensitive to a bad line than the Humax, or that it's weather, atmospherics i.e. later in the evening ? or something else ? Could it be water ingress on the cable ?
The Humax is now losing the signal every 30secs or so but only for a flash of a second and then is back to full strength.