All posts by Briantist
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MikeP: Not meaning to quibble ... but the industry people use LCN ("Logical Channel Number").
The Frequency is currently C27 (522.0MHz), C29 (538.0MHz) and C57 (762.0MHz) - as the local multiplexes use the "interleaved frequencies" in the national plan.
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Michael: The system used ("NDS") is now owned by Cisco. NDS Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has details.
To answer your question there are artciles like Pay-TV smartcard hacking - how easy is it?
To understand how the cards are well interated into the set-top box (and not an "add on") this diagram shows
See NCN8024 datasheet | Pinouts | Circuits | Schematic for Ncn8024 Smart Card Interface Ic for details.
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niall: Have you looked at Freeview reception has changed? | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?
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Steve: Have you checked the list on the Single frequency interference | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice page yet?
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Janet Hursey: The bonanzabonanza channel has been replaced on those few transmitters that carried it with Chart Show TV (number 67).
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Dave: Have you looked at Freeview intermittent interference | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?
The problem can be caused by too much signal, see Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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sue purves: a sky card won't make the slightest bit of difference.
If you have reset your sky box already then the most likely answer is to get a larger satellite dish.
From what I recall - I used to live in Cascaise - three are plenty of local installer companies who can help.
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MikeB: .... or you can do it the old-fashioned way and use a hardware firewall.
The good ones aren't cheap, but they are effective.
Cisco ASA 5505 Security Appliance - Firewall Edition.. | Ebuyer.com is an example.
But £263 is cheaper than the Cisco ASA 5515-X Firewall Edition Security appliance | Ebuyer.com at £2181!
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Phill: I'm going to guess that you're in a Freeview Light area.
If you can supply a postcode, we can let you know more.
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Friday 9 May 2014 5:25AM
Michael: if you bypass the CPU in the smartcard then you're not going to get acting other than unencrypted data!
Why would Ofcom stop something that is totally legal?