Signal "overlapping"

[louisc]

<font size="2"><font face="Arial">On the Sentech map it shows that my area has a good signal strenth,so just like everyone else did I went out and bought a modem. When it eventually arrived I could not get a working signal and then purchased a Flat Panel antenna from Powerband for R1200.00. This allowed me to connect and surf happily,but I had a lot of ping timeouts (24% signal strenth). After Tuesday 31 March I completely lost signal,and cannot connect any longer.I stay in Newlands, Pretoria (close to Menlyn B/Station 66)but strange enough can only get signal from Basestation 22. Sentech advised me to try and connect to Basestation 66 which is close to me,but this seems impossible.No matter where I point my antenna to I still get signal from 22. Does anyone have any suggestions to get me up and running again please... my flat panel is pointing directly at Basestation 66 but still gets a signal (good) from 22 and I am unable to establish a connection. Thanks! </font id="Arial"></font id="size2">

 

[Super]

One suggestion is to disconnect the modem from the PC (unplug the USB connection), point the patch antenna to base 66, reset the modem (press the black button on the modem for a few seconds), and hopefully the modem should find it. []

 

[louisc]

[:I] thanks, i tried to do this but no joy. It still picks up basestation 22, funny though If i move a few metres away from my house I can connect to basestation 66.

 

[nroets]

Menlo (66) is the best. Been connected for 43 hours now.

Patches aren't that much directional. If you like I can bring my DSTV dish which is much more directional to test things out.

 

[louisc]

[] Nroets; thanks a lot for the reply. I would actually appreciate your offer as I had two types of antennas up - the "grid" and also a Flat Panel one - both of them is line of sight and only picks up 22 LaMontagne for some reason; although I point it directly to 66. I saw the dish type and was wondering how that works.

 

[groenie]

I'm also trying to pick up Menlo Park, but with no success. Does anyone know its exact location?

Groenie

 

[gripen]

Its an old DSTV dish so I dont know if its the same as the dish antennas. In the sense that it has a focal point then probably yes. You would still need the pigtail etc since with nroets's dish all you do is put the modem in place of the LNA/B.