Skybox f5 picture freezing help

[t23]

hi any help would be good my skybox f5 has been fine had for a month or to not had any probs with it but over the last couple of days it has been freezing for some odd known reason does anyone know what it could be ?

[P&D]

Might be because the F5 box's are crap mate
does it freeze on the FTA channels ???

Could be your box ...internet provider...firmware....or wherever you get (thepartwecannottalkabout) *Gift* (most prob the gift)

where did you get the box from & did it come with a gift ??

[t23]

yh it freezes on them all it was fine until a couple of days ago never had a problem with it

[P&D]

What on the free to air channels ???

[t23]

yh even fta channels

[desidunda]

Try a rescan and check your signal quality and strength

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[t23]

I did a rescan and the signal quality is 87 and strength is 42-50

[mtv1]

there in lye's the problem 42-50 is far too low

adjust your dish its close but not on it

[t23]

do I need a meter to do that I have never done it before what should it roughly be at

[mtv1]

have u an old $ly box to try see if the fta are freezing on that ?

that would rule out a problem with the box

[t23]

hi I have just tried that and the fta channels seem ok on the old sky box

[digicon]

I will just put this into perspective what you need on on the Box itself is Signal Quality and as you say it is 87% this is the main one to be concerned with the other reading Strengh which is 42-50 is actually AGC level and this is how the box controls how much gain to send to the tuner as to not overload it.

Hope this helps

[t23]

I have just moved the dish a little bit and managed to get the strength up to 70 and it seems a lot better at the min

[P&D]

LOL the F5 box

I would not touch them with a bargepole

[Cottyoftheboro]

Does having low signal cause this to scramble thought it was just the net side causing scramble though if dish was out get no signal...[
thanks as am just a newbieQUOTE=P&D;2003601]LOL the F5 box

I would not touch them with a bargepole [/QUOTE]