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Sky+ and humax odd signal problem
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<blockquote data-quote="Keith G" data-source="post: 1084132" data-attributes="member: 414672"><p>My 1st post so go easy...</p><p></p><p>I have a dual LNB, Sky+ box upstairs, Humax box downstairs.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>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) .</p><p></p><p>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 ? </p><p></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keith G, post: 1084132, member: 414672"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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