bad connection?

[dmc314]

hi all, i have a question not involving keys! it seems my biggest problem could be a bad connection, i don't have virgin media, the house did but we elected to get sky so the brown box on the outside of the house stayed. i have a dbox now for my bedroom and since the key update things have been strange.
i've updated my keys fine but some problems persisted, i believe there is one of two reasons for this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

currently after a service scan i can pick up every channel however many do not display correctly, not just the sports channels but even bbc 1 and itv though some come through just fine. bbc two, paramount, nickleodeon for example show up without a hitch and all the radio stations do as well. the channels that do not show up properly begin ok for a split second and then cut out to a degree, the screen moves around, becomes jerky, the sound is gone as well. certain actions with the remote such as bringing up the blade menu or the mod directory where you input keys stabalises the picture and sound briefly before entering said menus, the sound continues while in these menus but disappears with the picture when out of them.

i am concerned with the lead coming from the brown box as i've had connection issues before but assumed i had solved that when i dismantled the small box inside the house and removed the connecter attached to the wire, i then connected a splitter to the wire and ran a coax directly into the dbox, it was working before things went down but i can't be sure the cable isn't damaged. i believe it may be the emu settings but i don't know enough about them to be sure, i have evocam, gbox, mgcam, newcam on my dbox and it was always set to mgcam, i have auto updates turned off and in the service settings mgcam is selected with ucode set to vortex, i believe this is how it was before but can't honestly remember for sure.


if anyone has any suggestions i will try anything to resolve this, i am tempted to go directly to the brown box, cut the wire and try running it from there but my handy work isn't great and that would worry me, i always assumed that if i was getting some channels the connection can't be bad but i just don't know.

another point to ponder is my connection from the wire to my set. currently the black wire runs directly into a splitter, from there i have a coax lead fitted with an fplug into the splitter and a standard tv connecter into the dbox. i have been told how to fit these plugs, i take the outer section off, strip back the flexible wires then cut the inner plastic section around the aerial far enough away from the flexible wires so they wont touch. i believe the connections here are good enough since i am receiving approximately half the channels but am curious if the standard tv connector into the dbox would make a difference? i have tried satellite quality cable and regular low loss tv coax cable, both have the same results from the dbox.

thank you for reading, i hope someone can help me.
dmc314

[justlucy]

Originally Posted by dmc314

hi all, i have a question not involving keys! it seems my biggest problem could be a bad connection, i don't have virgin media, the house did but we elected to get sky so the brown box on the outside of the house stayed. i have a dbox now for my bedroom and since the key update things have been strange.
i've updated my keys fine but some problems persisted, i believe there is one of two reasons for this and any help would be greatly appreciated.

currently after a service scan i can pick up every channel however many do not display correctly, not just the sports channels but even bbc 1 and itv though some come through just fine. bbc two, paramount, nickleodeon for example show up without a hitch and all the radio stations do as well. the channels that do not show up properly begin ok for a split second and then cut out to a degree, the screen moves around, becomes jerky, the sound is gone as well. certain actions with the remote such as bringing up the blade menu or the mod directory where you input keys stabalises the picture and sound briefly before entering said menus, the sound continues while in these menus but disappears with the picture when out of them.

i am concerned with the lead coming from the brown box as i've had connection issues before but assumed i had solved that when i dismantled the small box inside the house and removed the connecter attached to the wire, i then connected a splitter to the wire and ran a coax directly into the dbox, it was working before things went down but i can't be sure the cable isn't damaged. i believe it may be the emu settings but i don't know enough about them to be sure, i have evocam, gbox, mgcam, newcam on my dbox and it was always set to mgcam, i have auto updates turned off and in the service settings mgcam is selected with ucode set to vortex, i believe this is how it was before but can't honestly remember for sure.


if anyone has any suggestions i will try anything to resolve this, i am tempted to go directly to the brown box, cut the wire and try running it from there but my handy work isn't great and that would worry me, i always assumed that if i was getting some channels the connection can't be bad but i just don't know.

another point to ponder is my connection from the wire to my set. currently the black wire runs directly into a splitter, from there i have a coax lead fitted with an fplug into the splitter and a standard tv connecter into the dbox. i have been told how to fit these plugs, i take the outer section off, strip back the flexible wires then cut the inner plastic section around the aerial far enough away from the flexible wires so they wont touch. i believe the connections here are good enough since i am receiving approximately half the channels but am curious if the standard tv connector into the dbox would make a difference? i have tried satellite quality cable and regular low loss tv coax cable, both have the same results from the dbox.

thank you for reading, i hope someone can help me.
dmc314

try a re-scan without the splitter ?

[dmc314]

ok i'm really confused now, i left it for half an hour and now ALL channels are working... perhaps the mgcam took a while to kick in properly after i messed with the settings. the weather has been bad here too, maybe that affected the cable from the brown box into the house (which goes up the side of the house into my bedroom).

i have no way of connecting without the splitter right now, the black wire has an fplug adapter on it that i couldnt remove and it needs to go into a connecter that fits like on a splitter. thank you for the reply though justlucy