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| Thread ID: 80175 | 2007-06-14 01:34:00 | Dish setup for satilite broardband | grlb (12413) | Press F1 |
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| 558956 | 2007-06-14 01:34:00 | I wish to set up a portable broardband dish but the service providers tell me it must be set up by a technition at each new location. Is this sevice more difficult to access than Free to Air TV? Why cant I set up the dish using a satilite finder? Are the service providers just trying to keep their techno's busy?:help: |
grlb (12413) | ||
| 558957 | 2007-06-14 01:38:00 | There might be quite a bit of expense and tech know how involved.... | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558958 | 2007-06-14 01:47:00 | Thankyou friend All I want to do is point the dish in the right direction after it has been moved to a new location after the money has been spent on tech know how. How difficult is that, or am I missing something? Graeme |
grlb (12413) | ||
| 558959 | 2007-06-14 01:54:00 | I tried setting up an eyehug dish when we moved from Auckland to Wellington and it failed miserably. But at least i tried. After failure I called in the tech dude and after a couple of hours he decided the LNB was faulty and replaced it and all was sweet. Seemingly the LNB did not like Wellington anymore than i did. Now on Jetstream type broadband with same ISP and it is far better than sattelite. Sat internet had too much down time when there was bad weather. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 558960 | 2007-06-14 02:23:00 | You can get it in the general direction. For Ipstar irs 22 degrees elevation roughly and 270 degrees side to side. But. Then they have to run the calibration program and make tiny adjustments while checking the reading: Left/right Rotating left/right and finally rotataing the receiver. There are several stages in this claibration thing that you do, each one corresponds to a separate adjustment. Then when its OK it does a couple of other things then opens the connection in the modem to allow access. So no, its not that easy. Then again with the right software and the logins and opasswords and the serial numbers for everything its not that hard either. But you don't have all that. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 558961 | 2007-06-14 03:32:00 | you can do it. the problems are the signal is not overly strong and there are a few sats with the same signal so its really easy to get them mixed. with a decent meter its not to hard to do. the other problem is physically mounting such a large dish without it blowing away. the need to be fixed to somethting solid that doesn't move. ie the movement from a caravan suspension can be enough to throw it right off. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 558962 | 2007-06-14 06:06:00 | you can do it. Thats what the last twit we did an install for thought too. He adjusted it. We had to drive 125km to realign the thing. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 558963 | 2007-06-14 07:03:00 | Thats what the last twit we did an install for thought too. He adjusted it. We had to drive 125km to realign the thing. about as bad as the one who fitted a trellis fence in front of his to hide it :eek: |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 558964 | 2007-06-14 07:08:00 | A wooden trellis fence should be no problem. A wiremesh fence, or corrugated iron fence, would be a useful noise (and signal ;) ) reducer. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 558965 | 2007-06-14 08:02:00 | sorry graham but ANYTHING infront of the dish will cause loss of signal, in this case it lost all signal. even twigs waving past infront of the dish is enough to lose signal. | tweak'e (69) | ||
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