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    Default Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    My mum lives in a block of flats. She has one freeview box in the livingroom (sitting room) with a perfect picture. She has another freeview box in the bedroom. The freeview box in the bedroom doesn't tune properly. The few channels that do tune stop start and freeze alot with "BAD SIGNAL" appearing on screen. I'd really like to get this fixed for my mum.

    Things I've tried:
    • Moving the working freeview box from the livingroom to the bedroom. The same problem occurs with that freeview box.
    • I opened up the TV socket on the wall to make sure the connection was nice and tight. (it was but i took it apart and rewired it anyway), this made no difference.
    • I tried a completely different wall socket in the bedroom but again, this made no difference.
    When I look at the roof I can see one huge (I presume digital) aerial shared between 8 flats. Presuming each flat have a couple of TV's in them, I'm guessing there will be a signal booster or aerial amplifier as standard on these new flats.

    As my mum is in the top floor of the flat, I managed to get into the loft and did see the aerial cable running into the bedroom and the livingroom but there is no sign of any aerial boosters or amplifiers. Infact I could not see where the aerial comes into the loft from the roof.

    Does anyone know why this bedroom signal is so poor and what can I do about it?
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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    Might be a poor connection at the other end.

    Have you tried you own booster on this ? that normally helps improve a week signal.
    Give it a shot and if dose not work take the booster back lol

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    Quote Originally Posted by TotallyRandom View Post
    Might be a poor connection at the other end.

    Have you tried you own booster on this ? that normally helps improve a week signal.
    Give it a shot and if dose not work take the booster back lol
    When you say my own booster?? I dunno what you mean? I have a flat also, with two freeview boxes but only one small digital aerial but I don't have a booster at all.

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    Info Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    what he means is you can buy a booster yourself, fit it and if it does'nt work, then take it back to shop and ask for a refund cuz it does'nt help you can get them pretty cheap on ebay and argos have a wide selection aswell http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...7C10199214.htm

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    Oh right cool. I'll have a little gander, thanks.

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    if you have a plate in the room that has tv fm sat and RETURN then unless you connect a cable from the tv port to the return port then the bedroom quality will be shite, this is so you can get sky from main room to bedroom. this web link shows a picture http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wall...D2C9A5D}&Tab=0 hope this helps.

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    Quote Originally Posted by euroman2 View Post
    if you have a plate in the room that has tv fm sat and RETURN then unless you connect a cable from the tv port to the return port then the bedroom quality will be shite, this is so you can get sky from main room to bedroom. this web link shows a picture http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wall...D2C9A5D}&Tab=0 hope this helps.

    She has one of those in your link above in the livingroom but the one in the bedroom is a one of these:

    http://www.triax.co.uk/Products/Wall...D90639F}&Tab=0


    I'm not sure I follow... Is there something I should do with the one in the livingroom?

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    Just to wind this thread up.

    I took the decombiner (triplex) plate off the wall in the livingroom just to check it and found that one of the cables wasn't even attached properly. Not sure which cable but I reattached it.

    I then re-tried the connector (return feeds to the freeview box) back into the return hole on that decombiner (triplex) plate in the livingroom and hey presta!! I re-tuned (searched for services) on the freeview in the bedroom and it worked perfectly.

    Big thanks to all for patience and advice on this thread. Appreciate it.

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    Default Re: Aerial power/freeview dignal poor issue

    sounds like the fitter who has cabled the flat up as wired it like a ring main socket to socket to socket
    have seen this many times in flats
    should be some where in the flats is a distribution amp feeding the flats try to find it ether in a closet or a caretackers room

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