Free-To-Air Satellite TV

FMarshall

I realise that; my language was deliberate code for 'I wonder if Seun is up for it'.


@africode


Unless you are in very far North Africa or Europe, you are not receiving Hotbird. What you are seeing on 'Hotbird' is signal from the satellites that you can really receive e.g. W4 or Intelsat 7/10; this happens because of similar frequencies.

The test is this: can you receive any of the Hotbird channels as listed in the link below?

http://www.lyngsat.com/hotbird.html

 

F Marshal,
Please I have changed my mind.
I have not used that link (report to moderator) before. I now followed it and realised it is for reporting offensive posts.

don't report me either, don't think its a good idea.

I understand your concern. I was trying to use the "Report to Moderator" feature as an attention grabber for the moderators and Administrator, but if you don't feel comfortable doing it, I would somehow try reaching him via email or other means.  Seun's email is  seun.osewa@gmail.com. Meanwhile, others should try and contact moderators of this site and also email Seun regarding giving us our own FTA forum within Naijarules.

@4sta

Have you got a dish and, if so, is it currently pointed at any satellite?

 @4sta

 As you can see we all here to help u , so please give all relevant information, is your system set up , i mean if your dish is up and decoder connected etc , or all just fresh from the box( if it is we sure can help you here , you see am joining the guru's in the house to put you through , ). Really don't know much about that decoder of yours , but i think we can work it out, neither did I , when i got my STRONG  . No shaking give more info on what you've got , dish size will be ok for now ,

When the Gurus talk i can chip in some more info, if need be ,

justx24

can any one help me out I bought a LNBF of C-Band and I don't know any freq to install. can anyone get me some freq and the satellite name?

@biggjoe
welcome back. iappreciate you for starting this forum. It has made it possible for many of us to own a sattilite system.

@bigjoe
@enigma
please do you anything about fishing with satellite system as posted by dvbguy? please shed more light.

@dvbguy
mind if you shed more light on fishing as you posted?

@all
keep the flag flying. i think getting a 1.8 motorised dish with c & ku lnb attached wont be a bad idea. what do you say ooooooooo

@all

Fishing,

all u need to grab data off a satellite is a dish, a dvb card and the necessary software.

now the kind of 'loot' u get depends on how you customize the fishing software ( i like the term fishing as opposed to grabbing, the latter sounds a bit brute ). so u can very well avoid virus', mal-ware and what have u.

u can set up the software to pick up only movies, software etc,  or a combination of these.

now, since this is an offline activity (leeching to be precise) u have no say in what u get. so if at a certain point the one downloading aborts the activity well u're automatically affected --this can be annoying at times when it is RAR, ZIP or EXE files since they become unusable.

how fast can downloads be?

that varies, sometimes it takes me over eight hours for a 1.37gb movie file to complete and other times max. of three hours for the same size of film or program etc to complete.

the speed really depends on the one downloading, if they have a very fast connection then automatically also have.


Equipment

a decent P3 or P4 with a lot of harddisk space will do since you will easily fill up your harddisk in no time (i have had to restrict the sort of files i grab since i am left with just a few gb left on my disk)

the kind of dvb card is really a matter of choice but it is not easy really setting some of them up (i took me a lot of time to really get mine to work)

Fishing rod ( )

there are about three programs - Manna, Skynet and skygrabber.

i have tried the three but i like Skynet better.

this Fishing thing will need a whole new thread but that is just a jist of what i do with my satellite dish - i don't use it for tv can't remember the last time i tuned into a tv channel )

so well if u have a dvb card and u're interested in specfics - let me know and i will guide through the setup. if u don't have a dvb card and u're still interested drop me a mail and maybe we can work something out.

hi all,
can anyone tell me on which satelite band (C or Ku) i can track MB2, MBC4 and MBC action on???
kindly tell me he name of the satelite and it's frequency settings?
thanks

@dvbguy

please could you supply your phone no and e mail address. i will like to contact you.

@BUTONEDAY
@gofitech

hi guys, i have sent u mail.

dvbguy

what u describe seems interesting tho it aint 'free to air satellite tv' as this thread is called. how about u start a thread with that name somewhere on nairaland so those of us interested can follow it up and maybe take it to a new level?

thanks

@ all
       so far so good nothing new yet. i got a tip that mbc uae might upgrade to  c band in badr c @ 26 degrees and if that happen i believe most of us in south may smile.
       nothing much is coming up in ku band 90cm for long time now but if u ve c band u can scan intelsat 10-02 freq 4180H/21050,u can see some new egptian channels who knows wot they re up to.


          for those asking me of channels receivable in southern nigeria i think its all over the post in this forum notin good in ku band but the best ku band sat is w3a for now because trend tv is not fta.in fact am getting tired of ku band in south which make me think c-band is better option though NO english base foreign movie channels like fox movie and mbc's in nilesat.but how we go do!



         for those interested in c band installation i ll try and find out time to explain the channels receivable in south and how to go about the installation because c band installation is not something u can just do expecially if it involve motorizing it.i ll post a pic of 1.8m dish starting from the assembly to the mouting this weekend.


         if u can't manage wot we ve in c band then u can go for nilesat but before then make sure u bought one plot of land for the space another option is u can go and pay to ctl and other cable tv providers that sells nilesat.


        @ butoneday,bros how u dey? as for the 4.5m pan dish bros,where u get space? for that size of dish,remember your building covers the west side of your house and nilesat is in west, part of your 3m is covered by the same building at the other side.


        for those of u in PORTHARCOURT AND RIVER STATE, abeg we no dey do magic here we cannot give u wot ctl and cmtv is giving with 90cm dish u better settle with 68.5 degree east or any other free ku band since u don't want to pay.we re trying wot we can to fish out channels in sat but we re not providers.

Ajibey, I had tried in the past to try and use DSTV decoders to watch fta, and I tell you that it is only possible if you subscribed to their channels,   For instance, I used to watch the TrendTV free channels with their decoder, but the moment my subscriptions expired, it is not possible again.  However, I think the Strong decoder 4553X could be use to watch DSTV as well as free to air stations.  I am sure about this because, I use same at home.  The only minus there is that, you can't receive some of the interactive channels of dstv on the decoder, but you can as well receive all the substitled channels with the strong decoder.

@twinstaiye

Thanks for the info but how true is it that HiTV decoder s just like a strong decoder that can pick FTA stations?

@all

I have started  a thread on "Fishing" or "offline downloading" here is the link:www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-145229.0.html

the discussion can continue there. thx.