Freesat. Box

[yelrow]

A french friend has lent me a freesat box, pending arrival of mine. Works fine, but programs, keep momentarily freezing, bit like streaming. Is this normal, or have i done summat wrong. thanks .

[brian1951]

Thats down to a poor internet speed im affraid.

[yelrow]

Hi, Brian, thank you. Being ignorant, can you clarify. How is the internet involved. I have sat dish, as was, and sky box connection, in freesat box. Does that work via internet. Our speed is awful.

[teedoubleudee]

Sounds like your dish might need realigning though you could try doing a retune John

[brian1951]

Internet connection is needed if your using on demand or i player services. Terry is right, it sounds like your dish needs realigning, go into the menu of the set top box and check signal strength.

[RAF96]

This is the dish alignment app I have on the iPad - find it in the App Store.
Dish Align by Dayana Networks Ltd

It has several tools such as satellite horizontal and vertical alignment data and a compass to help align the dish.

I used it a lot when caravanning using a portable dish.

[teedoubleudee]

I have an alignment meter (somewhere!) that I used when installing an 80cm dish at my last house. I remember that just tightening the fixing bolts would throw it by a fraction of a degree. You had to slightly misalign it in the opposite direction so when you tightened the bolts it pulled it back in to max reception. Great fun whilst balancing on a ladder 20' above a concrete path!

[yelrow]

thanks guys. My dish is on the ground, fortunately. I went to the guys house who lent me his. He just used his mobile phone to align. Pointed it at the sky. I had to point out that if i pointed my, non smart phone at the sky, it would probably say, You cannot be serious. Will look at the app. Sky was perfect before, and i understood it used same sat.

[Brian]

<Snip> Will look at the app. Sky was perfect before, and i understood it used same sat.

Is Sky on the same frequencies or even the same satellite as used by FreeSat?

[yelrow]

Good question. My understanding, is they both use same satelite, but .......