Anyone tried this new box?

[giffy1001]

Hi John_bird_O,

after many hours of siting in front of the tv, watching a slow ass scan bar move across the screen, i decided to give up with no joy, but i did notice the signal level was only at 28%, i will re try at home and see what happen ( i tried box a girlfreinds to make sure it wasn't my connection)

thanks for the advice, will try tomorrow between work and pub

[DJ67]

Hi,
I don't want to come across as though I'm taking the Michael but are you sure that you put the cable into the correct socket on the box?
The reason I say this is that a while ago I disconnected everything so I could decorate and then when I reconnected I got no channels. I did a couple of deep scans and it turns out I'd put the cable into the wrong connector on the back of the box.
Mind you, I had had a very hard day... well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Cheers
DJ67

[giffy1001]

lol DJ67,

thanks for tip..... but i did have the right hole in the wall :-)

i did try the FM output of the box ( just to see if i could you that rather than using a splitter) but no luck....

after stripping my setup ALL the way back to wall box and removing all splitters, i managed to get it to find 300+ channels, the box auto sorts the channels into catagorys.
i was able to but the box back on the end of the splitters after it had located the channels. picture quality is good for the cost of the box.

i seem to be able to watch all channels, even with out having to enable the decrypter (language setting, red button, 2520).

Thank you to everyone who helped

[tigga69]

got mine on thursday.
Am over the moon, does a great job.
easy to set up
easy to use

this is literally what i did.
- read some posts on various forums
- flashed the box with latest firmware (do a search with google for "eurovox ex1100 firmware" and read through ALL the posts, the links are out there)
- do a deep scan - change one perameter the symbol rate - do a google search for "GUIDE: Eurovox Scanning Settings" this post has all the channel information you need near the bottom.
- leave for 20 mins.

voila its working

took me about an hour of playing from unboxing to have channels to watch.

Next is tidying up the channel list - this is painfully manual process so save your channel lists occasionally to the usb stick.

(tip - lincsat has loads of excellent advice - read his posts on the product and is a good source for purchase as knows the product well)

[swedeyhead]

I've had terrible problems with signal breakup on my Eurovox Max Red for the last 4 months or so (it only seems to be really bad during the daytime).

My V*rgin box doesn't break up or lose signal and nothing I've tried (signal boosting / checking and changing the wiring / taking off the splitter etc.) seems to sort it, so I assume that the V*rgin box has better error correction and can overcome any noise on the line - wherever it comes from.

Does anybody know if a newer machine (ie this one we're discussing) is liable to be any more tolerant in this respect. If so it might be time I went for an upgrade.

[onebeat]

I'm only just getting used to the 1000SL but I'm interested to find out about the new one. Sorry, floating comment :S