Hello,
I live in an apartment complex that provides dish service across the property. In order to use it, I have a dish 211k hooked up through a Q-box. I will confess to not entirely understanding the way this setup works, but it is what I was told I needed. When the setup was first installed, it originally didn't tune in at all, and when a technician was dispatched he tested the signal coming in to my apartment and told me I needed a signal attenuator between the wall and the q-box, as the signal coming in was to strong for it to read. I bought one and got it hooked up, and I now have a much better situation, where all channels tune in SD, and most look fine. That said, when I try to tune to HD channels, a few of them play with major glitches and artifacts in the video, and most don't tune at all, instead saying "lost signal, tuning to sd equivalent" or something to that effect. I have tried with two different attenuators, one a 10db as originally suggested by the installer, and one a 6db, which seems to have the same effect. I would like to be able to watch in HD, as I am paying for it, but don't really know where to go from here. It doesn't seem at all to be dependent on the weather, it is nice and sunny today and the problems persist, in case that matters. Thanks in advance for any help.
Michael
I live in an apartment complex that provides dish service across the property. In order to use it, I have a dish 211k hooked up through a Q-box. I will confess to not entirely understanding the way this setup works, but it is what I was told I needed. When the setup was first installed, it originally didn't tune in at all, and when a technician was dispatched he tested the signal coming in to my apartment and told me I needed a signal attenuator between the wall and the q-box, as the signal coming in was to strong for it to read. I bought one and got it hooked up, and I now have a much better situation, where all channels tune in SD, and most look fine. That said, when I try to tune to HD channels, a few of them play with major glitches and artifacts in the video, and most don't tune at all, instead saying "lost signal, tuning to sd equivalent" or something to that effect. I have tried with two different attenuators, one a 10db as originally suggested by the installer, and one a 6db, which seems to have the same effect. I would like to be able to watch in HD, as I am paying for it, but don't really know where to go from here. It doesn't seem at all to be dependent on the weather, it is nice and sunny today and the problems persist, in case that matters. Thanks in advance for any help.
Michael
