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My Freesat box is hooked to the existing ex-Sky dish on the house I bought. The dish has a twin feed LNB but I only use one feed on my FS box.
They all use Astra 2 series sats, which hover over South Africa, so you will be closer to them than us mortals in UK John.

yelrow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 1:02 pm 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 .

On our Freesat box the signal strength is quite critical. As it is a digital signal once the strength drops below a certain level you don't get anything. So say 86% will be fine, but 85% will not.

Like RAF96 says, I plugged my Freesat box into an ex Sky dish no problem. It doesnt mean to say that the dish might not be slightly out of alignment. Some broadcast frequencies have a stronger signal strength than others and I suspect that SKY may well be the strongest. It's amazing how much signals degrade over quite short distances. For instance (this may have changed since) I could get a great signal in Essex with a 60cm dish but in Scotland they need an 80cm for similar reception!

RAF96 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:00 am They all use Astra 2 series sats, which hover over South Africa,

My Freesat box only gets the Freesat channels. But my LG smart TV also has a satellite input and that picks up 5-6 different satellites from the same dish. So I have about 400+ channels on the TV satellite input, none of which I watch!

I have a Smart TV but with the kind of reception it gives me I think it is as thick as two planks.

Puddles

i am without a smart tv, as would need a uk one, and nobody will post.