Do all Satellite dishes have to look the same way?

[SexyGreyFox]

When I used to fit satellite dishes it used to amuse me when somebody would say "put it a bit higher so I'll get a better signal"

 

[malfunkshun]

When I used to fit satellite dishes it used to amuse me when somebody would say "put it a bit higher so I'll get a better signal"

LOL, gotta love that moving further from the trees and adding some height with a pole (other than needing the pole to get LoS over the roof) should give line of sight over the trees.....for a while at least

 

[SexyGreyFox]

moving further from the trees and adding some height with a pole (other than needing the pole to get LoS over the roof) should give line of sight over the trees.....for a while at least

Definitely.
The OP should take some pics all around his house.
In fact he can give us his Google Earth co-ordinates.

Where my dish is situated I have a fantastic line of view for every satellite dish apart from 28E.

 

[Jonners]

£79
I've just been on my regular forum that says its OK.
My DB cost £169 3 years ago.

Sorry to drag this thread back up, I bought a Dreambox 500 for £79 yesterday, my lord it's a mighty impressive bit of kit for a tiny box.

http://www.linuxsat.co.uk/

Very helpful chap that sells them too

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Wow those dreamboxes look the dogs! What made me really notice was the ethernet port... is that for uploading linux?

 

[Jonners]

The Linux front end is on the box, I can install different images(firmwares) and fiddle with the scripts to my hearts content(but I wont because I don't want to knacker it ).

The ethernet port is useful. Can even use it to stream video's with vlcplayer amongst other things...

http://www.linuxsat.co.uk/dreambox.html The one I bought

 

[Begbie]

I've still to see the benifit of picking up foriegn channels.

 

[Tefal]

SO what channels do you get on that dreambox/what can it do?

 

[Jonners]

Google can help you decipher this boxes capabilities.
Theres lots of info out there, I don't think it could be acceptable if I said what it could do on here.

 

[megakid]

My dad was, and still is, into all that stuff (I wonder why? )

He used to have lots of cams, various different gold card programmers, 2-3 set top boxes and the like.
I heard/assume that this dreambox is an advancement of the cam system where you can emulate all of that stuff via software now? I always thought it should be like that!

 

[Tefal]

My dad was, and still is, into all that stuff (I wonder why? )

He used to have lots of cams, various different gold card programmers, 2-3 set top boxes and the like.
I heard/assume that this dreambox is an advancement of the cam system where you can emulate all of that stuff via software now? I always thought it should be like that!

So hacked sky etc?

 

[Freakitchen]

In the hope that the OP has had his question answered, I've got one that's sort-of-similar. My intention is to install a dish for freesat soon, but the potential problem is that we have a bungalow in a large garden surrounded completely by large trees. Firstly, is there a quick way to find out which way the dish should point for freesat, and secondly, would there be a problem attaching the dish to one of the aforementioned trees, approx. 30m away from the house? (I'm thinking maybe length of cable?), which could then point out over open fields.

 

[peetee]

So hacked sky etc?

thats my presumption, aswell as ability to pick up broadcasts intended for foreign satellite networks, extremely handy for footy etc due to none-GB countries having rights to air 3pm kickoff games

OP drill a hole or two in the tree and squirt some bleach in, shouldnt take too long before the tree becomes noticably dead.
Or get virgin - its the same quality as sky tbh, switched to virgin a few months ago from sky infact. Love the ondemand, and you can pickup another box off ebay to plug in for multiroom theres lots of different types of boxes on there toooo...........

 

[2StepSteve]

So hacked sky etc?

To my knowledge Sky has always been unhackable.. unless something has changed?

 

[sir-les-mp]

to OP if it was me id be down garden centre and buying large amounts of weed killer that also affects tree's and shrubs and have a midnight raid on them once they have been killed off council will have no option but to remove them for saftey reason's

 

[yak.h'cir]

To my knowledge Sky has always been unhackable.. unless something has changed?

I've never tried to do it but I've always thought it was hacked pretty much the day it came out. I believe the latest way is for one person with an active card to host it on a server, everyone else connects to it and they can all see the channels as if they owned the card themselves.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

The Dreambox can not do SKY.

 

[wod_uk]

copper nails in the bottom of the tree will work but thats hardly a solution, cant you just chop a bit off as is anyone going to notice/complain ?

yes the channels are a lot in foregin but you can switch audio to english on a lot of them, its best for 3pm football as there is a uk blackout of games on tv at 3pm and some channels have showed the latest films that are only just out at the cinema in the uk. the amir khan fight was on too so saved 15 notes on that lol

neighbours think i'm strange for having this movable dish but who cares

 

[2StepSteve]

I've never tried to do it but I've always thought it was hacked pretty much the day it came out. I believe the latest way is for one person with an active card to host it on a server, everyone else connects to it and they can all see the channels as if they owned the card themselves.

When I say hackable I mean to gain total independent control over what you watch locally. Sure anyone could start a stream via the net but it would only be from a single sky channel, unless a big group of people got together.

Believe that the cards are sent out and programmed to be match every unique sky box and done so via encryption, and no one has managed to break that encryption.. makes for a very good protection system. Unlike NTL now Virgin.. which I believe are finally waking up, them morons!

 

[elitetrick]

cards arent linked to the skybox, when we finished uni earlier this year our flatmate took our sky card back to his home skybox till the subscription ran out as we had movies + sports which his mum didnt.

but yeh it sucks that they have to all face that direction, means our new uni house has to have cable cos one location has trees and the other the landlord wont have a skydish on. so we're on virgin this year, the virgin box broke 30minutes after installation, 1 month to fix it, gotta be a record right? i hate virgin