3 Ubc Dishes On 1 House

[vegas]

There is a house in our mooban with 3 UBC dishes lined up against each other on the side of the house. What is the reason for this? When we have ours installed, True asked us if we wanted an extra box for the bedroom, connected to the same dish. Or am I wrong, and you need 1 dish for each box?

[Crossy]

We're running three boxes off one dish, no issues. So no, you don't need one dish per box unless they're receiving something other than UBC (on a different polarity transponder).

[croftrobin]

Hi

You are correct that only 1 dish is required with x set top boxes on UBC.

Your neighbour may actually have a Diseq switch with the dishes set to 3 different KU Band Sat's. UBC on 1, Nss6 on the second (lots of thai channels free to air on this one) and the 3rd on maybe chinastar KU band.

Its quite common to see a couple of dishes.

There is a house in our mooban with 3 UBC dishes lined up against each other on the side of the house. What is the reason for this? When we have ours installed, True asked us if we wanted an extra box for the bedroom, connected to the same dish. Or am I wrong, and you need 1 dish for each box?

[opalhort]

It appears to have something to do with the packages TRUE (UBC) is offering. Our neighbour also has two dishes for two rooms (TVs).

He told me that the installation for each was only 2,000Baht with no monthly charge for the very basic channels but if he wants to add an additional box to one dish he would have to pay a monthly rental fee for this box.

opalhort

[lopburi3]

I am on the cable system but from my reading if you buy dish for UBC they will only authorize one converter. If you rent they will only authorize 2 converters on one dish. Crossy says he has 3 but that is not what website says so perhaps he has that like the four cable boxes we have when policy said only three.

[Crossy]

If you rent they will only authorize 2 converters on one dish.

We have only one card too (wireless card splitter) don't tell UBC

Two of the boxes are on short cable runs (<6m) from the dish, the third (in the spare bedroom) is on about 15m, not noticed it go off before the others when it rains, but we don't often use it.

Edited March 29, 2008 by Crossy

[JakeBKK]

There is a house in our mooban with 3 UBC dishes lined up against each other on the side of the house. What is the reason for this? When we have ours installed, True asked us if we wanted an extra box for the bedroom, connected to the same dish. Or am I wrong, and you need 1 dish for each box?

No. Except you receive something else with those dishes. 80 cm dishes are not ideal for it but you still can receive other satellites - so lets say room1 watches a horizontal polarized sat , room 2 a vertical one ...... and so on..

[sniffdog]

Let's say you got a big family ... Daddy wants to see sports, Mommy wants to see her soap and the daughter wants to see MTV at the same time ... Don't you need three separate dishes?

Edited March 30, 2008 by sniffdog

[elkangorito]

Let's say you got a big family ... Daddy wants to see sports, Mommy wants to see her soap and the daughter wants to see MTV at the same time ... Don't you need three separate dishes?

The dish receives an RF signal, which is then decoded. A TV antenna also receives an RF signal, which is also "decoded" (turned into pictures & sound). If you have 5 televisions in your house, do you need 5 antennas to watch a different channel on each TV? No, you don't.

As long as the right level of signal (in decibels) is received by each TV set, which can be achieved by using "distribution amplifiers", then 1 dish (antenna) can supply many decoders & therefore many TV's.

[KhunDtaa]

Can anyone tell me how much it cost for an additional UBC Box,

[Heng]

I have a shophouse leased out to two different tenants (one rents the first floor as a shop and the other leases the remaining 3 floors as a residence and photo workshop. Each has their own UBC dish. That's just two total though so I'm sure they'll be glad to know it's not their place that you are secretly "observing."

Edited March 30, 2008 by Heng

[KhunDtaa]

Can anyone tell me the cost of an additional UBC Box, I already have a dish. Thanks

[elkangorito]

I have a shophouse leased out to two different tenants (one rents the first floor as a shop and the other leases the remaining 3 floors as a residence and photo workshop. Each has their own UBC dish.

Whilst obviously this works, it is not necessary.

I used to install TV/satellite/cable to many Australian premises. As an example, I would be asked to install a satellite/cable/TV system to a block of units (sometimes a hundred or more units). There were 2 ways of doing this;

1. Install one dish/antenna for the whole block,

2. Install a dish/antenna for each tenant as they required.

It was generally cheaper (& more "attractive") to install 1 dish/antenna & distribute the signal throughout the building. All that was then required was for each tenant to buy a decoder if they wished to use the service.

Edited March 30, 2008 by elkangorito

[Heng]

I have a shophouse leased out to two different tenants (one rents the first floor as a shop and the other leases the remaining 3 floors as a residence and photo workshop. Each has their own UBC dish.

Whilst obviously this works, it is not necessary.

I used to install TV/satellite/cable to many Australian premises. As an example, I would be asked to install a satellite/cable/TV system to a block of units (sometimes a hundred or more units). There were 2 ways of doing this;

1. Install one dish/antenna for the whole block,

2. Install a dish/antenna for each tenant as they required.

It was generally cheaper (& more "attractive") to install 1 dish/antenna & distribute the signal throughout the building. All that was then required was for each tenant to buy a decoder if they wished to use the service.

They have that here as well, it's UBC/True Cable Magic for apartment owners. I'll make use of that if I ever get around to building an apartment complex. In this case though, UBC isn't part of the premises/lease agreement. They both ordered their True services and had their sat dishes installed themselves individually.

[lopburi3]

In Thailand there is only one large service source and they limit box to one per dish on owner supplied systems and two per dish on rentals. So that would require more than one dish/system for many larger families if they intend to remain legal.

[Crossy]

Can anyone tell me the cost of an additional UBC Box, I already have a dish. Thanks

The box is not a problem, any cheap digital satellite receiver with an Irdeto decoder will work. BUT you need an additional card from UBC, last time I asked it was 300 Baht for the card 9000 Baht for 'installation' even though we already had the receiver

As I noted earlier, we're using a card splitter. Ours is wireless, but there are fairly cheap wired solutions available, ask at any outlet supplying 3rd party dishes and receivers. Technically illegal but we're not sharing the card outside the house so UBC are unlikely to find out.

Edited March 31, 2008 by Crossy

[Old Man River]

I don't know if this is within policy, but some True technicians are setting up wireless systems so that one can get multiple wireless cable connections throughout their house using just one smart card (i.e. one account). The cost is only the cost of the boxes (and probably a big tip for the technician).

[LivinLOS]

How far are your wireless splitters working ??

I was thinking about dreamboxes in 4 points and a single box being my home cardshare server.. But 3 more dreamboxes will run to a fairly large bill.

Do you have any interfereance ?? Are they fast at channel changes ??

[astral]

I suspect the deal comes with the dish and the installation guys feel they have to put the dish

up, or the user will feel cheated....

I have a dish sitting in Malaysia because the building has a central dish cabled to all apartments.

A waste of money, but that is the way the company down there works.

I expect UBC is the same.

[Crossy]

How far are your wireless splitters working ??

I was thinking about dreamboxes in 4 points and a single box being my home cardshare server.. But 3 more dreamboxes will run to a fairly large bill.

Do you have any interfereance ?? Are they fast at channel changes ??

This is the unit I have, http://www.smartwi.net/ got a good deal on it from eBay UK, the seller didn't realise it won't split Sky cards, bad news for him, good news for us I don't know if it's available in LoS.

We've got 3 slaves in use (4 came with the unit, can handle up to 7 apparently). One is right next to the master, another about 4m away through a stud wall, the last is 20m away through a couple of stud walls.

Never seen any interference problems from or to the WiFi.

Channel changes are pretty quick, a second or so, interestingly it takes longer to switch to the 'free' channels if we've been watching one of the gold package channels, up to 5 seconds (varies never worked out why).

[Old Man River]

How far are your wireless splitters working ??

I was thinking about dreamboxes in 4 points and a single box being my home cardshare server.. But 3 more dreamboxes will run to a fairly large bill.

Do you have any interfereance ?? Are they fast at channel changes ??

As for the system I have (set up by the True technician), I live in a multi level house and no problem on any floor. No interference. Channel changes are the same as before when we didn't use wireless (on all channels). The cost was minimal. What I don't know is whether it is legal. The technician said that it was now OK (perhaps due to True buying UBC), but I really don't want to check for sure. Sometimes better to let a sleeping dog lie.

[LivinLOS]

20m would easily be far enough.. I am now in 3 levels and can have the master in the middle level.. 15m max distance.

So many variables at the moment.. Rooms, points, etc etc.. all while surrounded by boxes and cabling (needs to go in walls).. Major workload for next month. Moving truly sucks !!!