First post, so go easy! I have an Eurovox Ex1000sl; and it has been working fine for around two months, but recently the following channels have started to heavily lag and stutter, effectivly making the channels unwatchable.
Sky Sports 1 & 2 & 3
I am in the camp of only having the box to watch these channels (& ESPN which is working thankfully!) - so this is a big problem for us.
I haven't flashed the box yet, but have found the post that explains how to do it (i'm waiting for the cable to arrive). The reason I am posting is that others who seem to need to flash their box have the scrambled channel response, wheras I can still see the channel, so it's like more of a tuning issue?
Is there a way to check if the flash is actually required? Is there a way to force it to check for certain frequencies?
I also wondered if this was a deliberate ploy from sky to deter people capturing their product?
Sorry for the ramble, but any help is much appriciated!
Hi all, firstly want to say a big thanks to you both for taking time out to answer my noob questions.
I reflashed the box, tried loading peoples cdf files, different cables, everything. I was just about to get on the phone to Virgin when I thought I'd try one more thing - removing the splitter and having the Eurovox plug in directly from the in line.
Remarkably this made the picture work, with a quality of about 100x what it was - I also see a huge increase in performance when the broadband is connected directly - circumventing the splitter box.
So I would add this to a step for anyone who is experiencing signal difficulties in the future! It should be the first recommendation as it's so easy to do and can yield instant results.
I do have one other question though - and that is how to fix the damn thing now, I think I need a new splitter, but don't know where to get one from, whether it's ok to ask VM without getting into trouble etc? Here is a screenshot of the current set up - maybe if someone can identify the part names I could just get them from ebay or a maplin type store?
try takin the attenuators off it may be they steppin the signal down too much put the wire straight on the splitter its what your cablr operator would do anyway.j.
