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MovedGoalPosts · 13-08-2004, 09:09

This sounds to me very similar to issues I was haveing with my PACE STB a 1000 series. It's been swapped out now for a Samsung, which I think are getting rolled out now as the replacement of choice, certainly that the only thing they are offerring in my area, Addlestone, Surrey.

On the other hand it appears all STBs are only as good as the signal they get from the cable. A poor cable with lots of "noise" will degrade the signal so the STB looses it's ability to decode, and thus freezes. That they try and fit boosters, attenuators and stuff is all a con to imporve a signal that isn't there in the first place. If you have broadband through STB this increases the strain on the STB, increasing the freezes if the signal isn't there. It's an ntl issue and it should be for them to resolve, but a new cable from the street CAB to your house is a lot of money and I suspect they are unwilling to lay out on that.

13-08-2004, 09:09	#4
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: NTL Digital Cable TV locking up constantly This sounds to me very similar to issues I was haveing with my PACE STB a 1000 series. It's been swapped out now for a Samsung, which I think are getting rolled out now as the replacement of choice, certainly that the only thing they are offerring in my area, Addlestone, Surrey. On the other hand it appears all STBs are only as good as the signal they get from the cable. A poor cable with lots of "noise" will degrade the signal so the STB looses it's ability to decode, and thus freezes. That they try and fit boosters, attenuators and stuff is all a con to imporve a signal that isn't there in the first place. If you have broadband through STB this increases the strain on the STB, increasing the freezes if the signal isn't there. It's an ntl issue and it should be for them to resolve, but a new cable from the street CAB to your house is a lot of money and I suspect they are unwilling to lay out on that.