End to Sky tv in Spain

[Chimune]

My old man who lives up in the hills north of Malaga reckons turdblock is putting an end to free to air Sky reception soon and he needs internet tv now as his disk and box wont work.

Anyone know the score and what the options are ?

[Chimune]

So does he just need a satman to come point his dish at the new satelite ?

<edit> well now i know the new sat name and have done some googling i can see that we are in the middle of some sort of changeover and that it seems he should wait for all chanels to switch over to the new sat and then find out the most appropriate dish size should be.

Edited by Chimune on Monday 3rd June 14:36

[Chimune]

Opps - cross post beanbag !

One question is does the dish not need to be pointing at the new sat ? they cant both be in the same place .... or can they .....?

[Chimune]

beanbag said:

I can't tell you about the adjustment but there is no need for change. Otherwise millions of homes would also have to be updated.

Have a Google for Astra 1N and 2F footprintts. This website also gives a good insight to what you need to receive signals.

http://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=5341

Looking at his location for the 1N sat he should have had a 79cm or 95 cm dish. Satbeams says he should now have a 110 cm one. Sounds like i have my answer ! cheers beanbag.

[Chimune]

Yup - old man confirmed he lost BBC channels end of last week.
He is about 2 miles from a small town called Rute and as mentioned Movistar are a bit sheeite.
Will a bigger dish get it back or are we really looking at satellite bband / vpn now ?

[Chimune]

so whats the minimum bandwidth needed for the vpn / internet box option?