Problems with Pixelation in the London Area
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Hi all,
I've been a reasonably happy TalkTalk TV (ex Tiscali and Homechoice!) for many years now.
I've been experiencing very heavy pixelation over the last 4 days now on DSL channels such as sky one and sky sports. According to tech support this is due to a problems with one of the servers at a South London exchange and its affecting many customers in London.
Are any of you guys suffering aswell?
Cheers
Ash
I've been a reasonably happy TalkTalk TV (ex Tiscali and Homechoice!) for many years now.
I've been experiencing very heavy pixelation over the last 4 days now on DSL channels such as sky one and sky sports. According to tech support this is due to a problems with one of the servers at a South London exchange and its affecting many customers in London.
Are any of you guys suffering aswell?
Cheers
Ash
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parthena
It gets alot worse if I am using the internet at the same time as watching TV to the extent that I have been turning off my laptop to watch TV and turning the Tiscali box off to use the internet.
Do you have an (indoor) aerial attached to your tiscali box ?
If you do have an aerail then BBC1 & ITV will come via that (in london) & it's probably local intererence / alignment.
If it's on eg sky sports (a channel not of freeview ie not via the aerial) its something wrong along the tiscali box / line.
PS had no pixilation problem @ sw6
No we don't have an aerial on the roof so we just rely on DSL for all the channels. It is one of reasons we have stuck with Homechoice/Tiscali/TalkTalk for so long because we don't want to shell out a couple of hundred quid to get an aerial put up.
Otherwise I would be happy just with Freeview (I don't really watch any of the Sky channels) and we'd find a better provider for our broadband.
He got an engineer in, who changed the router and set-top box and told him that he had 5gig broadband and that 3.5gig of that was for the TV so only 1.5 was available for internet... I can't get my head around it - why problems now, after trouble-free simultaneous TV and internet for several years
I reckon that was boloney and a waste of a router and set-top box and engineer's callout :eek:
To cap it all, my friend's PC has just died but he thought the TV problems had resolved prior to that - anyone else still having problems?
parthena
Oh, and still having some pixellation problems although not enough to stop me seeing all of Germanys goals flying in
parthena