Sat Receiver - Twin tuner

[Natasha]

Very good point, its more likely your dish has moved abit!  Saying that when the storm hit feuerbach there was surprisingly no wind.

If you want I could pop around this evening and we can try tweaking it a bit.

You will need 2 wires going to the receiver, each connected to a switch, with each switch in turn connected to both LNB's as per sketch....

Fantastic receiver btw.  Has some very good posibilities if you were willing to invest 10 euro a month in a cccam server.  Not that I would reccomend such a thing of course.......

[Bumble Bee]

Only just read this. We're smashing a hole in the wall for the new window, but I had a chance to fiddle around with the dish before nightfall.

I disconnected the splitter and the German sat is working, so it was the old splitter. It was actually wet inside!

Got no BBC for the mo, but we'll survive.

That sketch: THANK YOU!! I owe you a beer or five. Talking of which - the bbq man the weekend before last made his way through most of one of my crates of beer. And I thought I tipped them back sometimes. Or was it JDee.

btw: I assume you saw the facbook pics?

[Natasha]

Those little splitter things are only cheap if you get them online.
Maybe its worth thinking for the future what you want to do, for example part of our house package will involve these homeway sockets in the rooms, which will feed the sat signal.  So I'll end up doing it properly at the start I think, which involves investing in this setup;

http://cgi.ebay.de/Multischalter-9-6-HQ-NT-2-Quattro-LNB-0-1-PMSE-NEU-HD-/150339240806

It means in the future you can run 6 seperate receivers which can access both satelites.

Jdee only drinks Hefe !  and reggie will have only had his regulation 3 so it must have been the kiddies!

I did see the FB pics by the way, I look like a right moody fooker even before the game started.

[Mr Burns]

I wish that kind of multimedia solution had been available when we building our house  Even if I'd just put in normal cat-5 cabling
but 20 years ago I wasn't aware how much of an impact the internet would make   
I've now reverted to a DLAN and I've now got Gigabit over poweline and a NAS server in my cellar with 2 x 1.5 TB running as RAID 1
which gives me some peace of mind, so even if we did get broken into and the PC knicked I've still got all my data stored safely in the cellar. 

[Natasha]

Yeah, its quite a good idea isn't it.  A bit neater than having lots of sockets too.  Looking at the online shop the individual prices are pretty offensive, so I assume our builder gets them a bit cheaper than that!

How does the actual performance of the powerline stuff relate to what they claim?  We have a couple of NAS drives and with wireless G they were shockingly slow so we upgraded to 300mbs N, which is pretty good actually.  Even so transfer rates are typically only 6-7 MB per second from a theoretical 37 or so!

[Matt]

I was considering going with Unity Media for my Internet, but having over stepped my 3 months notice to my current provider by a week I find myself contracted for yet another year.  (How I hate these German contracts and their infernal small print).

Living in a house with tiled floors I find satellite cable the bug bear of my life.  Every time I decorate a room now I find myself routing the walls concealing the cables and plastering over them, which is ok until her indoors decides she wants the TV in a different place.

[Bumble Bee]

You could also just get the builders to run empty pipes or cable shafts down the spine of the house. Tash I'd seriously consider that.

I know two people who've done it because technology gets superseded. You can always put sockets on later, but if you've no space to run cables, you're where most of us are already - disconnected, or connected outside the walls.

[Mr Burns]

That was the same problem I was having with my NAS, but since I've gone onto the gigabit solution I can access my photos at
normal speeds as if they were local. I was using Develo 85 Mbit which was unuseable when trying to view photos.
I suspect you are losing performace over the wireless connection

You could also just get the builders to run empty pipes or cable shafts down the spine of the house.

that is the thing to do so you can always upgrade (ie. fibre optic) without having to rebuild half the house, definately what I would do.

[Matt]

Can you still do that if the wall cavities have been insulated?

[Mr Burns]

we were refering to laying the empty conduit is best done when you're building from scratch, you can of course retrofit the pipes
but you will have to cut channels into the walls and then plaster over them which can be a bit traumatic for the lady of the house,
cavity wall insulation shouldn't cause any problems although I haven't seen cavity wall insulation much in Germany

[Natasha]

Its something we will definately ask for, I have a couple of other minor requirements, like wiring for the surround sound speakers and so we can mount the TV flush on the wall without dangling wires, but we are a good few months away from that yet.  Plus of course the essential inspection pit in the garage!

[Mr Burns]

forget the inspection pit ! ....been there done it, well unless you've got enough dosh that is, I wanted one too but by law (at least here in NRW maybe different in your neck of the woods) you must have an "Ölabscheider" (oil separator) in the bottom of the pit, which at the time was one additional cost I didn't want to have, at the time it would all have put another 6-7K onto the house price. I tried to persuade the builder to make the pit and cover it with shuttering and put a thin layer of concrete over it when they were pouring the baseplate so I could open it after the "Abnahme" ...but he wouldn't play ball    

[Bumble Bee]

Don't forget the secret cellar for your Second Life concubine and kids 

And the walk-in beer fridge...

[Natasha]

Thats a bit shite about the pit.

PC did this quick guide, I guess theoretically it could be added at any point in the future.  I will ask when we get close to that stage tho.

[Mr Burns]

Hey that's pretty cool !  I never knew you could get those fibre glass inserts ....will have to give it some more thought !  


 this looks like the one they've used

[Bumble Bee]

Before putting in the splitters, I thought I'd just check the storms hadn't moved the dish around and connected both sats straight into the back of the receiver. Tuner 1 German sat, Tuner 2 UK sat.

This Octagon is better than I thought. WITHOUT a splitter, I can record two channels at the same time. Or watch one and record another. Or anything I need to. It looks like it's all inbuilt! Brilliant!

[Natasha]

doh

You can watch german sat whilst recording english sat and vice versa, but not watch english whilst recording another english.

Have ordered myself a linux based receiver too btw.  So shall be watching illegal telly in no time!

[Bumble Bee]

doh

Accepted - I told you I'm new to all this!

BUt for the mo, we can keep kiddies happy and prepare for next TV seshes.