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Satellite dish signal was down at 75 all weekend and experienced regular freezing. Now back up at 90 (typical) and not experienced single freeze in the last 2 hours. All a bit odd.
 
I'm not sure if 75 would make it freeze it's below 60 that will freeze due to signal
This is kinda weird lol i feel like a club man in dark age trying to figure how the lightening created fire xD

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to all who are on sky broadband on zgemma boxes

Menu
setup
system
network
adapter settings
click blue for edit DNS
change nameserver 1 to 208.67.222.222
change nameserver 2 to 208.67.220.220
press save
sky themselves have changed to iptv6 which everybody on sky internet needs to do this
could work on other providers that are having the same problems
turn off dchp if that doesnt work then type it in
hope that helps??
 
charlie88 said:
Satellite dish signal was down at 75 all weekend and experienced regular freezing. Now back up at 90 (typical) and not
experienced single freeze in the last 2 hours. All a bit odd.
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mine has been at 89% all weekend had real bad freezes this morning it's on 88% and no freeze at all yet
 
I bet the sky spies are looking at this thread and laughing their socks off at the alarm and dismay caused this weekend.
Reaper.
 
RustyMG said:
Hi all,
Im not usually on this section of the website, but my line provider sent me the link.
Me & the relatives have 3 lines - Paisley, Glasgow & North Lanarkshire, with 2 of us on Sky BB and one on Virgin, and the channels have been glitching like hell all weekend, with 2 lines actually going down between 2:30 and 4:30 today, even though they were fine at the server end.

Im kinda relieved that Im not going nuts and this is clearly a nation wide problem, but Im also concerned that clearly, Sky are up to something.
There are too many people on different servers all with the same issue for this not to be an issue at the "source".........
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Hi rustymg

it not a nationwide problem loads of peoples sly servers are working flawless. All your server done was pass the buck sending you to this link "saying it not me it everyone" If he had local cards and a better setup he wouldn't have had to give you this link........................

99% of glitch/freeze related problems is server related
 
joeblake89 said:
to all who are on sky broadband on zgemma boxes

Menu
setup
system
network
adapter settings
click blue for edit DNS
change nameserver 1 to 208.67.222.222
change nameserver 2 to 208.67.220.220
press save
sky themselves have changed to iptv6 which everybody on sky internet needs to do this
could work on other providers that are having the same problems
turn off dchp if that doesnt work then type it in
hope that helps??
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This don't look like it isolated to isp but any input is helpfull


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Alikhan said:
I'll give a brief explanation - I hope it makes some sense.

I'd say the majority sat servers (not all) share the same cache since just running on local cards isn't viable due to the load put on the cards, although, most servers just run on cache without any local cards at all.

What's happening most likely is that some bad cache is reporting bad keys such as 44332211 rather than 11223344 as an example. This will be fixed once the source of the bad cache is found and removed which will then fix the bad key reporting leading for the ECMs to reach without the bad source resulting in no glitching.

These days it's very rare to find a server with actual local cards - they could just turn the cache off until the issue is resolvd. Another point to mention on Sateliite is that the QAM256 trick can be used by servers running OScam to fool boxes that report CAIDs that they have locals when they actually do not - it's like a phantom card.

To sum it up, cache is amazing when it works but when it has issues, it's hard to track down the source. Cache exchanging (as these keys cannot be controlled or their reliability guaranteed) can lead to freezing if the channel clears from the cache-exchange but doesn't reach within the ECM timeout.

Edit: One IMPORTANT fact - Just because a server is more expensive than others, it doesn't mean it has local cards either.
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So what your saying is the servers that are having problems have no cards ?? or they would have disabled there cache peers 1 by one until they sorted out the bad cache peer is that right????

As for it not been viable to run on just locals because of load on card not really true. The cost would have more of an affect on the server running on just locals as a medium or large server would build up enough local cache rather than remote cache to ease the load on card/cards ,and would be able to split the load between cards .

As for the 256 that been going years also multics shows servers as having loads of cards where they only have cache peers.

Have to agree with you on that one a server that is more expensive don't mean he have local cards best thing anyone should do is test a few out see what one they happy with money wise and glitch wise and never take a years sub.
 
Guys I have noticed the past couple of weeks on the sat side alot of channels are heavily freezing.

Now I think my signal levels are fine, but could this be my setup or is the problem on the end of the server provider?

The freezing is not stopping and I am worried now.
 
So what your saying is the servers that are having problems have no cards ?? or they would have disabled there cache peers 1 by one until they sorted out the bad cache peer is that right????
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I'm not saying that they all have no locals cards. What I was implying there is that if they would just use there locals without cache until they find the bad cache peer that would stop the freezing.

As for it not been viable to run on just locals because of load on card not really true. The cost would have more of an affect on the server running on just locals as a medium or large server would build up enough local cache rather than remote cache to ease the load on card/cards ,and would be able to split the load between cards .
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It all comes down to cost. No server will buy many local cards since they are obviously expensive and they would most likely make a loss.. I was just saying there that running with 1 card WITHOUT any cache would put heavy loads on the card (depending on the amount of clients). Not to mention the servers who just run on cache completely without locals.

As for the 256 that been going years also multics shows servers as having loads of cards where they only have cache peers.
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That is correct.

Have to agree with you on that one a server that is more expensive don't mean he have local cards best thing anyone should do is test a few out see what one they happy with money wise and glitch wise and never take a years sub.
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Agreed, best to try a few tests and then go monthly.

If the issue is not the cache (which I think it is) then it could be a new issue with CAID 0963 but I seriously doubt that theory.
 
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Glad I have found this thread.My provider has been solid as a rock for over a year now but like most others above,I am getting glitching regularly on all pay channels.I do not think it is an ISP thing as I am in part of the country that does not have BT.I am on KC in Hull and my broadband is solid.I am sure it must be a cache problem like member Alikhan posted above.If so,then hopefully once sorted we will all be ok.
 
I seem to be getting a lot of glitching in the last few days, before that it would happen occasionally, but nothing worth bothering about.

Glad to see its not just a problem with my set up, it looks like its happening to everyone, I suppose I'll just have to be patient till it settles down.

In Edinburgh using Plusnet 20Mbs
 
staking said:
noticed since 5pm today

all sky movies are scrambled.

documentaries are working ok.

btsports and sky sports 1 ok, 2345 sky sports all scrambled.

have sky changed the channel feqs ?
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no pal all channels work fine still image.jpg

sorry that pic is of ss1 lol all others are same for me
 
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Looks like its a bigger problem than first thought judging by the numbers. So am guessing its still going on all this glitching/freezing/blimping or what ever anyone calls it. :)

Conclusion so far.
ISPs not to blame since it seems to be any supplier of broadband. Sky/BT/talktalk/EE/KC-Hull area etc etc
CCcam/Newcamd/Mgcam all line types effected.
Its not box specific since a lot of different boxes reported in theard. (Also worth noting that some boxes might just be little glitches and some boxes might freeze for a longer period of time.) Thanks to systemlord for his explanation.
Its not just one server its many and its not isolated to a specific part of the country. (Also means its unlikely server fault/More than likely a cache issue mentioned by Alikhan) Still let your server know about the issue?
Its not time related its happening for different people, worse at different times of the day. Could be worse in mornings then settle for some time and then come good but it appears to be a temporary situation. You know it hasn,t gone away its still happening.
Could be a cache issue has explained by Alikhan

Now if anyone knows a mate of a mate who knows a mate who works for sly, Let em know so they can get a fix for us all. :grin:
 
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