On a day so foggy that you couldn’t see fifty yards, I was on the castle roof wondering where the beach had gone! Following on from the upgrade of the TV system at Penrhiw in St Davids, Roch Castle was next to have sky TV added to the guest rooms. With the benefit of being onsite during […]
Swansea Hub Removal We’ve been doing a lot of work with TFL-Group lately and today saw an early dart up to Swansea to meet the crane and assist in the decommission of a transmitter tower… Previously, their main fibre link from Bristol stopped here and became ‘wireless’ all the way to Pembs. Now with commercial fibre links […]
Continuing the debate (see our previous post) on broadband suppliers and the level of data allowance provided with their packages, it really is essential that you determine how much broadband data you REALLY need. We’ve found this handy broadband usage calculator provided by Which? which helps you summarise the typical broadband activities within your household, […]
GREAT NEWS for residents of Wales who are still experiencing considerably low broadband speeds and haven’t yet taken advantage of Welsh government funding. Broadband ‘not spots’ and ‘slow spots’ across Pembrokeshire have been the focus of the Welsh Government over the last few years with subsidies of over £2 million awarded to residents and businesses, enabling high […]
Freeview is to see a change next week when the BBC-HD channel changes full time for BBC2-HD to compliment the already popular BBC1-HD. It’s a sign of things to come as channels slowly but surely start to move over to High Definition broadcasting. On the whole, you won’t need to retune your digital equipment as it is more of […]
So you think you can’t get broadband? Think again… When a 1/2meg telephone internet connection just wouldn’t do, West Atheston Farm got in touch to see if we could help. With grant approval from the Welsh Broadband Support Scheme, we set to work installing a satellite dish that would deliver reliable broadband. With a pole securely concreted into […]
We are constantly hearing about some inner city areas getting internet speeds of “100Meg” or (100MBps) to give it its correct term. So why is it that we can still use the internet with a piffling 1Meg and what speed do you REALLY need? Ok, so here’s a very quick guide that will answer many queries in […]
Freesat+ users can now access Youtube via the on demand function of their freesat+ recorders. This is likely to be followed by more and more online TV channels in the near future. For more information, take a look at freesat’s website.Freesat – Youtube
Freeview could get up to ten more high-definition channels under a proposal put forward by Ofcom to reuse existing radio spectrum.[Source – Digital Spy] The regulator said that the 600 Mhz band freed up by the analogue TV switchover could be temporarily used to enable two new digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplexes. According to Ofcom, […]
Well it’s that time of year when calls come in that satellite reception has been lost. This can affect users of all types of satellite dish, including sky, freesat and satellite broadband… If you can safely access your dish, then you may be able to resolve this yourself by removing the snow but PLEASE be […]
Freesat has agreed a deal with Sky to add a range of channels to its subscription-free satellite platform, including Sky News, Pick TV and Challenge TV.Sky News is now available on Freesat channel 202, delivering 24-hour rolling news coverage produced by an award-winning global operation. The channel joins the already available news networks on Freesat, […]
TV reception in Solva has always been a challenge. None more so than keeping the long cable runs intact!I have found five TV aerials on the Gribbin and they all seem to have had numerous cable replacements over the years. Mainly because of rodents eating through them, storm damage where they are hung from trees […]