Recent content by joshuals

The two sources I checked tonight were, at one time, online vendors well known for shipping Shaw gear of all sorts to the US. I didn't check E-Bay or Kijiji, though. I believe I read somewhere, sometime in the past couple of years, that standalone LNB's were going to be made available only...

A signal level of zero usually means that the connection between the dish and the LNB has been broken. If the connection is intact, your receiver signal meter should show at least a weak signal, even if the dish is totally mis-pointed. So, check the connectors at the LNB and look for damage or...

FYI, the link cited in Post #112 above triggered a blockage by my AntiMalware product. I did not proceed.

Yes, you're right.....I think I knew that at the time.... :) When I originally purchased my southern subscription twenty years ago a well- known and well-respected member of this forum told me to think of StarChoice/Shaw as a "temporary investment in entertainment". He was right. But it...

YEP!!!!!!! That day of mourning actually occurred for French-speaking snowbirds over a year ago when RDS and TVASports were moved to G1, at which point I cancelled my Shaw. At least the English-speaker hockey fans can subscribe to ESPN+ in the US, but as far as I know there is now no "legal"...

I know you've been working on this a long time and you probably anxious to be done with it. However, if all else fails and you are still questioning the line of sight and the trees, here's an accurate method to determine whether your line of sight is obstructed. Twice a year, spring and fall...

Yes. I became familiar with all that legal stuff during the Shaw years. So, from that, I would conclude that the Roku solution is just a streaming version of the satellite "grey market"....? The very strange thing about all this is that, with regard to ICITele, their programming is available...

I was a southern subscriber to Shaw for many years. My purpose was for the French channels, most notably RDS, TVASports, ICITele, TVA, Canal D, etc. Cancelled when most French programming was lost to Anik G1 a year ago. Visited Roku's website tonite. Only Canada-French channels in the...

Yes....Harshness is correct: there is a Dishpointer entry for Shaw further down in the dropdown box whose numbers are slightly different than the F2 numbers. I had forgotten that. However, either set of numbers can be used for getting started with the pointing operation. If you use...

You may be aware that Anik F1R has reached end-of-life and has been decommissioned. Shaw's replacement satellite located at the 107.3W slot is Anik G1. Anik G1 only covers the northern part of the US and Canada, so you may be able to received it in Hartford. That being said, when pointing...

Yes.....my understanding is that the 6xx receivers (and earlier) will not be compatible with the changes set forth in the attached document.

Weird.....if I click the link in my post above I get a "404" error. But if I Google "Shaw Direct Channel Map Download", I can see the document. Maybe it's an archived page. I snipped the text and attached below. Also, I'm sending you an e-mail to your Global Address on a related subject.

Hi Mike I found this link https://www.simplysatellite.ca/Tips%20and%20Tricks.html\ The article is not dated, so I have no idea whether it's Shaw's "new system" or not. It mentions (under "Map Status") a couple of channels that you did not try. HTH

Even after logging in the ads on this site have become BEYOND obnoxious and intrusive, taking up an amazingly large portion of screen real estate and making it difficult to read the content.

A receiver refresh can be done by accessing your account online and finding the button for refreshing your receiver. I believe a total of four attempts to refresh can be done per day via the Web. As far as the problem you are experiencing, it's difficult to diagnose from the information given...