BT TV with no Freeview reception

I have no usable Freeview signal where I live (Milton Keynes). I'm currently a Sky customer for TV so I have cabling that would receive Freesat, but I understand the BT YouView boxes cannot connect to those. I am also BT Infinity customer so am considering switching.
I need to know how much of BT's TV I could actually watch. A lot of the literature on the BT website imples that we are watching TV across the broadband connection rather than from a broadcast signal - what's not clear is whether that's true of the Freeview channels; the reference to requiring BT Infinity to watch the HD versions of those channels (for example) implies that it would use the broadband to stream them.
So where would my BBC One HD signal come from?
If I need a Freeview broadcast signal for BT TV to be useful, then I would be better off buying a Freesat box instead.

101 - BBC One HD England
102 - BBC Two HD
103 - ITV HD
104 - Channel 4 HD
407 - Watch
408 - GOLD
409 - Alibi
417 - Comedy Central
413 - TLC
414 - Discovery
415 - Animal Planet
419 - Sy Fy
420 - Universal
421 - E!
422 - FOX
423 - Nat Geo
424 - NatGeo WILD
425 - MTV
432 - History
433 - Crime & Investigation
513 - Eurosport 1
514 - Eurosport 2
That's with a BTVision Box knock off BBC ITV and C4 with a YouView box.
Other channels are also available at extra cost above the basic £7.
What you need is a Freesat recorder which will give you access to normal broadcast channels and a YouView box, however since tbe EPG is delivered by aerial I doubt it will be of much use
Have you looked at Freetime from Freesat
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Dodgy Freeview reception and missing channels on o...

Greetings friends.
We switched over from Sky to BT today, and all seems to be well, except that the television (with built-in Freeview) in the main bedroom is struggling to get many Freeview channels (ITV and C4, for instance, don't even show up), while other channels are stuttering and shuddering and breaking up. The Freeview in my own room (also a TV with it built-in) also had this issue at first, but cleared up after the fourth scan. I've rescanned this one about 10 times now, and the same happens.
As far as I'm aware, we're running the same setup as with the Sky box, i.e. there's an aerial cable leaving each room and going into some sort of box in the living room which puts everything into one aerial line (I didn't set it up personally), which then plugs into the antenna-out port in the YouView box (previously the RF-out port in the Sky box). We're serviced by the main digital aerial thingy on the roof of the flats.
Is there something we're doing wrong? Why would the Freeview reception in one room suddenly be carp compared to the previous Sky setup, considering it's all coming from the same rooftop aerial? Any ideas, or suggestions for a better Freeview setup?
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You can't compare it to Sky as that was supplied by a dish and Freeview comes via an aerial. It sounds as though your signal is too weak. You may want to consider an amplifier. My Mother, also in a flat, needed an amplifier once she started using a twin tuner PVR.
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Poor Freeview reception since installing bt vision

Hello
I used to have a good picture on terrestrial channels when I just had Freeview. I got BT vision but now the Freeview is sometimes unwatchable. I am puzzled as to how the installation of BT vision has interfered with reception of Freeview. Also, BBC1 has now moved to BBC North East, when prior to BT vision, I had BBC1 Yorkshire as my local station. I would be grateful for your input
Thank you
Andrew

welcome to the forum Andrew.
It looks like your BT Vision box has tuned into a different transmitter to the one you were expecting.
Sometimes when this happens second instances of the channels appear lower down in the EPG normally in the 800 range.
If you put your postcode into
http://www.ukfree.tv/txlist.php
you should see the Freeview masts that it might be tuning in on.
Do you see the transmitter you expect to be accessing plus do you see any others ?
There are a few ways of persuading the box to select the right frequrncy channels
I haven't had a BT Vision box for a while so I'll leave it to other posters to explain how.

I have a Nokia N97. I'm looking for a smartphone that is Blue tick approved for reception in rural Australia, which means only Telstra Next G. I would appreciate hearing about any smart phone with gd rural reception, and esp new versions of Android

There are reports of some 3G, or NextG ph's without a blue tick, with as good a reception as the blue ticks. This may include iphone, HTC Desire, and a new to Telstra shop Motorola Defy, that has a blue tick. Telstra staff are not able to give any information re upcoming models of smart phone + good rural reception

I was just having a look back at this post on the Q + A Session and had two thoughts:
- Did Nokia ever address the questions that they deferred by saying they will get back to them later?
- On Q9 the answer from the engineers that it was not an easy task to get Virtual RAM is a cop-out.
They admitted that the c: drive has memory paging and that this make apps run faster and smoother. That implies that apps installed on the mass memory won't run as fast or smoothly. I suspect that a lot of problems with apps are caused by being installed on the mass memory.
So where does that leave N97 owners, Nokia are very unlikely (like a snowballs chance in...) to recall N97s to have more memory fitted, so it goes without saying that Nokia should work on Virtual RAM from the Mass Memory as long as this can be accessed as fast as the c: drive (I don't know if this is even technically possible).
The decision to put such a small c: drive on the N97 was a terrible one, especially when you consider the position of this flagship device in relation to Nokia's move towards service with the Ovi Store and the additional overhead of the homescreen with widgets. Nokia all but acknowledged this by increasing the c: drive in the N97 mini. All I can hope is that Nokia have learnt from the bad publicity that this penny pinching exercise has caused and that whoever made the decision has either lost their job or been demoted to the most junior position in the company.
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Iphone with so-so reception

Okay, so here is what my problem is. I can compare my phone with an identical iphone and their reception will be far better than mine. I have even went so far as to compare to my girlfriend and mama's iphones, theirs having the exact same bars and 3G indicators, while mine shows 2 bars with the little circle thing. I am also in the extended network a good amount of time, while their phones show to be on verizons network. It is quite aggravating as i dont receive notifications and such until i get full 3G service, which is not that often it seems anymore. I have only had this phone for a little over a month and so far all I can say is that the iPod is great, the rest, not so much. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

I can definitely help with your signal issue. It's likely that the device just needs to be reprogrammed. All you need to do is dial *228 send> option 1. This will reprogram your phone to the network. There are also some settings that you may want to reset. Go to settings> general> reset> reset network settings. This will clear out any faulty programming and you can try the *228> option 1 again.
Give the above shots a try and let us know how it works.

Is my Macbook Pro the only one with lousy wireless reception/coverage

Hi,
I was expecting great things when i received my Macbook Pro last week. I was also prepared to go through a lot of testing for sound issues and heat, as i've read from so many other posts (my MBP seem to have none of these issues in any major way).
I used to work on my Powerbook G4 from 2005 which had a decent wireless reception (even compared to my wife's ibook G4).
But this macbook has the worst wireless reception i've ever seen! When running istumbler on both machines (PB, and MBP) and placing them side-by-side i'm getting a major difference in signal strength.
This is also basically what i see everywhere else with this MBP.
At the same time the MBP has problems connecting to Closed networks (airport extreme AP) and apparantly also lots of other wireless issues with authentication.
Am i the only experiencing this ?
Best Regards,
Lasse,
MBP 2.16, Powerbook G4, Ibook G4, Ibook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Powerbook G4, Tiger Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I'm curious, when did you get your MBP and what is the serial number of your MBP?
Thanks
i read early on that with the new antenna placement
and whatnot that the macbook pro was going to get far
better reception than the older powerbooks. this may
be true, because i've seen some powerbooks get bad
wireless reception, but my macbook pro gets about the
same reception as my iBook G4. which is pretty good,
so i'm not complaining ... i just think the "better
wireless reception" was overhyped. as far as
connection issues and dropping connections, etc.,
i've had no problems so far, and i regularly use my
MBP in 5 different open and closed wireless networks
with different levels of security.

Problems with regular GSM reception?

Hi, I've had poor reception since I bought the iPhone 3G at the end of July. After updating to 2.0.2, what was poor reception has become terrible reception, but I am not just having problems on 3G networks. I know others have had the experience that when they turn off 3G, they still get good reception on EDGE, but this has not been my experience at all. Prior to getting the iPhone, I had a Motorola RAZR on AT&T that got between 3 to 4 bars of reception on a regular 850 MHz GSM band at my house (I know it was using this band because I live in a cell dead-spot and purchased a $250 dollar Wi-Ex YX500-CEL cellular repeater which operates on the 850 MHz band and cured my cell phone reception problems at my house), and I had no problems making or receiving calls. Since upgrading to the iPhone 3G, at home I get 1 bar of GPRS switching to 1 bar EDGE or 1 bar GSM or No Service. Usually it sits at 1 bar, and after I try to make a call, it usually says call failed and No Service. I've been on the phone with Apple and AT&T, done multiple resets and restores to no avail. The Apple rep blamed AT&T service and the AT&T rep blamed Apple hardware. At the time, I was thinking "if the iPhone is quad band, why isn't it using the cell band from my repeater which works great with my RAZR and also works great for my roommate's Verizon phone?" I had been thinking that for some reason, the iPhone was not switching to use the band from my repeater, and was instead trying to use a very weak EDGE signal or something. I think the answer is, the iPhone must have poor reception on other bands, not just 3G, because last night I discovered if I walk right up to my cell repeater, within 3 feet or less, my iPhone magically has a full 5 bars of service (not 3G, not EDGE and not GPRS). As soon as I walk outside the 3 feet radius from my repeater, the signal starts to dramatcially drop off so that by the time I am about 8-10 feet away, it is back to 1 bar vs No Service. So, now I am thinking the iPhone just has generally crappy reception for other bands as well, not just 3G. I don't think it's just a defect with my particular phone, because at work, I actually get full 4-5 bars of 3G reception, and my phone works great in that particular location. What do you all think?

I wonder if this may have something to do with iMessage on my Macs. Recently updated to Maverirks and the iMessage app on my Macs was set up to my email and mobile phone (it wasn't before). I wonder if this is so, then whoever I send an SMS to that has iMessage on and replies back, will be picked up by iMessage since is turned on on my Mac, since replies go to the Mac but not my phone. If the sender has iMessage off, I get the SMS fine.

Nokia C7 problem with 3.5G reception

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I've been using this mobile one year ago and its all ok. But in february i begin to use 3G on muy phone.
Always connect at 3.5G symbol, but two weeks ago it never shows 3.5G again, only EDGE, and symbol "E".
I restart the mobile, turn off battery, restart settings but the problem doesn't disappear.
What more can I do? Restart to factory settings can solve my problem?
Its RM-675 with 111.030.0609 Symbian Belle.

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BT File Transfer: Files with "&"s cause reception failure

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I'm using a Satellite A200 with the latest BT Stack (5.10.06T). File transfer is fine, unless the file has an ampersand (&) in it... Is this a known bug? Is there a fix due? It's incredibly annoying!
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Update: After further investigation, the problem is actually with files containing apostrophies. They get converted to the xml litteral ''' and then presumably the stack can't download the file as it doesn't exist with that name.
Sorry for the mistake... can anyone advice if this is a known issue or is due to be fixed? :)
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5610 With bad RADIO reception / any signal enhance...

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i am in the same place, hearing the same radio station, but i hear a lot of interference in the 5610 that is not present when i use the 5200.
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Link-5 wireless elite v2 keyboard with really bad reception

Hi. I bought a Wireless Elite v2 keyboard a week ago, and it has really bad reception. It should have a maximum range of about 10mts, but I can't use it more than 10cm away from the link-5 dongle.
I have tried everything listed on this page: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00006821&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc...
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Is the keyboard defective?
I bought it at Boston, but now I'm on Argentina, I can't just go and get/try a new one...

Hello,
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I would suggest that you try to call HP and to explain the situation, see if they can try to help you to check the issue and maybe exchange the keyboard.
0-800-555-5000 Capital Federal: 54-11-4708-1600 or via e-mail at the link below.
https://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/email?product=4276234&lc=es&cc=ar&dlc=es
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White Macbook with MAJOR wifi reception problems

I live in a small flat and used to be able to access Wifi everywhere on my white Macbook (early 2006) model. This is no longer the case and I can only pick up wifi signal in my living room (i.e. within 7 feet of the router).
It is not a router issue as my iPad, iPhone and even my girlfriend's first generation Ipod Toch can access wifi anywhere in the flat. Very annoying! This computer is used by my girlfriend for university and there are only several areas of her college library where she can access wifi.
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You need to go into your router to change the channel it is using. If you check your router manual you will find how to get into its setting. I get into mine by typing 192.168.2.1 into my browser bar. some use routersetup again typed into browser. If you havent got your manaul just go to the company who made it and you can view it there.
Otherwise let me have your router make and model and I will find out how you do it and post here.
Could you see what channels your neighbouring networks were using ?
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B2B-51566 with a MDN reception

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Do you have an idea ?
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New BT Vision Box stops my other digital freeview ...

I'm a new BT vision customer and have set my vision box up to include using the poweline adapters as my tv is otherside of the room to my homehub and all works fine.
However the TV we have in the bedroom that has freeview built in will no longer receive any signal. This TV connects direct into a aerial socket on the wall and there have been no issues. For info this TV backs onto the wall where the homehub and one of the power line adapters are.
Any ideas how to get around the issue of all my BT vision kit from preventing the other TV receiving a signal.
TV has been checked and all is ok. Had a scan through google and can see that there maybe issues with BT vision affecting Wii's and so on but not other TV's with freeview built in.
Any help would be welcome.
Thanks!

Any electrical device generates noise which can be picked up on a cable. Powerlines by their very nature can generate more electrical disturbance than most. You can help minimise the effect by keeping cabling as far away as possible from powerlines and transformers. Screened aerial cable may also help with induced noise.
I suppose the cheap and nasty test to see of the Powerline is the cause of the issue would be to temporarily unplug the one close to your upstairs TV and see if the Freeview reception returns. Unfortunately with aerial cables which are buried in the wall you have no way of knowing how close they run to the ringmain, so it's possible that the extra signal the Powerline is putting on the mains cabling could be the issue. That would be a git to resolve.

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