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<blockquote data-quote="rpmnz" data-source="post: 187416" data-attributes="member: 57498">Quick QuestionsHi all, new to mediaPortal and have a quick question.Current setup involves 75cm dish ( which is actually eliptical as it is 80cm in one dimension), skystar 2 card and TV server running with media portal client on a single box.&nbsp; All in all everything works well, plently of little tweaks to be done as I havent had it up and running all that long ( weather pics, rss feeds etc ). My two questions are as follows and apologies if they have been answered before, I did use the search function but I just couldnt bring myself to wade through the morass of results returned when nothing obvious jumped out. 1.&nbsp; I get approximately 60-65% signal quality on TV2 , transponder 12456 but I get between 45-50% on Tv3 transponder 12483. TV 2 @ 60% seems to be ok not choppy but TV3 can be occasionally choppy and the audio stutters. This is especially bad on the new stratos channel. Is this normal, can I improve on this. This on a blue sky day and with rain it can get lower.&nbsp; I have played with the dish alignment and this appears to be as good as it gets. I'm in auckland and there doesnt appear to be any obstruction.&nbsp; Although I am on one side of a valley and am hoping that the satellite is above the opposite crest, certainly the dish appears to be pointing high enough to miss it. 2. can the skystar 2 remote be configured with mediaplayer. Thanks in advance for any info.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rpmnz, post: 187416, member: 57498"] [b]Quick Questions[/b] Hi all, new to mediaPortal and have a quick question. Current setup involves 75cm dish ( which is actually eliptical as it is 80cm in one dimension), skystar 2 card and TV server running with media portal client on a single box. All in all everything works well, plently of little tweaks to be done as I havent had it up and running all that long ( weather pics, rss feeds etc ). My two questions are as follows and apologies if they have been answered before, I did use the search function but I just couldnt bring myself to wade through the morass of results returned when nothing obvious jumped out. 1. I get approximately 60-65% signal quality on TV2 , transponder 12456 but I get between 45-50% on Tv3 transponder 12483. TV 2 @ 60% seems to be ok not choppy but TV3 can be occasionally choppy and the audio stutters. This is especially bad on the new stratos channel. Is this normal, can I improve on this. This on a blue sky day and with rain it can get lower. I have played with the dish alignment and this appears to be as good as it gets. I'm in auckland and there doesnt appear to be any obstruction. Although I am on one side of a valley and am hoping that the satellite is above the opposite crest, certainly the dish appears to be pointing high enough to miss it. 2. can the skystar 2 remote be configured with mediaplayer. Thanks in advance for any info. [/QUOTE]

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