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Thought I`d give free sat ago and picked up a box today.
Scanned for channels but find I`m missing a few, I`m using my old sky dish.
What satellite should I be set to, just in case I picked the wrong one 
Quote: The service makes use of the same fleet of satellites as the popular subscription satellite service Sky: Astra and Eutelsat 28A. This means that any satellite dish which is positioned to receive these services will be capable of receiving Freesat, with the addition of a suitable receiver (or Television with receiver built in). Providing the LNB (Low noise block-downconverter) has sufficient outputs, the one dish will be able to receive multiple services (i.e. Sky and Freesat).
For users who do not currently have a satellite dish, Freesat offers an installation service which is made available through retailers and which is advertised in a leaflet included with Freesat receivers. It is also possible to buy a satellite dish and install it yourself.
I have a quad LNB, but only two are connected - I dumped my Sky box and just use a Humax Foxsat
Thanks, just checked and it looks like I`ve connected to the right satellite, but channel five is still missing along with the various Iplayer channels, there listed here.
http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels
Lol think I`ll cancel my sky package, why pay extra for HD channels when the included at no extra on freesat.
Lol that`s a good point
Still can`t find channel five 
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Still can`t find channel five
More to the point, when you find something worth watching on Channel 5 you can let us all know! And just don't even bother with Freesat's (ahem) Movies for Men as I think you'll possibly be disappointed. 
The only problem I have experienced with Freesat was when the BBC changed its HD channel encoding. In order to get my box to find it I had to out some of the key facts such as polarisation an suddenly it could auto tune it.
Apart from that its good and I get a better picture than through Freeview, though you do miss out on a couple of channels like Dave.
With a Humax box you also get ITV Player (in addition to BBC iPlayer). Channel 5 is in there. It could be that your dish needs a bit of fine re-alignment then re-tuning. We live in a really exposed and windy spot and I have had to re-align my dish umpteen times to retrieve channels lost after a storm. The CBS channels and Channel 5 and its derivatives are always the first to go.
That reminds me, I must get a network extender so I can plug our Humax into the t'internet and use iPlayer.
I meant to say that the other thing to try on a Humax boxis is the following:-
Press :- Menu :-: Settings :-: STB Mode:-: Change Freesat to Non-Freesat.
That way you get access to all the other Channels on that satellite. There are 100s (but lots of duplicates) and they are all mixed up so would mean you having to manually re-arrange them. It would be worth seeing if you can get Channel 5 that way.
Quote: More to the point, when you find something worth watching on Channel 5 you can let us all know!
CSI! Love it.
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