electrosmart Easy Fit Satellite Signal Amplifier Booster & Patch Lead

The signal strength on my Sky Q box was showing just 50, meaning that some of the channels got lost at the first sign of bad weather. After fitting the booster, which took about five minutes, the signal strength had increased to 100! Easy to fit. Great value for money. Delivered ahead of time. Highly recommended.

I bought these to obviate a tuning problem with my LG telly. What started as a flakey tuning problem has gone to not getting itv hd at all. I can't damn these as none functioning as my TV could be on the blink. These have made the problem worse. I figured for the price, they're worth keeping in my box of tricks. I can't return them for a refund.

With just one receiver box (a Humax Freesat), the signal via the satellite cable (from a shared dish in a block of flats) was sufficient, and I think we could access all channels the box could recognise. After adding another receiver box (a Technomate, non Freesat), and using a splitter to take the cables to each box, some channels that were available before showed as having insufficient signal strength. I considered a "multiswitch" with external power (for about £60), but this signal amplifier seemed plausible after reading that the satelite cable can carry a DC power supply "backwards" from the receiver box to this amplifier, without another external power supply. The splitter also showed a DC line on its diagram. For £5 it was worth a try, and it worked. With only one of the two machines switched on, the signal is back to normal, apparently full strength. With both machines switched on, one or two channels are intermittent - sometimes ok, sometimes showing insufficient signal strength. So it not a 100% fix for my set-up, but it is much better than just using the signal spitter with no ampifier before it. (The Technomate box has an option to switch on the the DC power to the satellite cable).

I have a shared satellite dish and often common channels came up with "No signal". This little bit of kit does the job. I now have a lovely clear picture quality. Recommended.

The bottom line is that this didn't work.....in fact it reduced the quality of the signal...not dramatically in as much as it was a reduction of a single segment on the quality bar but it certainly didn't improve thingsBefore I see comments "you didn't install it correctly" or similar....I did, the instruction are plain English and my seven year old could have installed it following them. When I found there to be an adverse effect on the signal quality I checked and double checked the installation and all was correct.Then I tried the next logical step...may be the input and output were labeled the wrong way around so I tried swapping the connection around...nope that didn't work....infact it was even worse which suggest they were correctly labeled and my first installation was correct.This leads me to conclude that the item doesn't work.Of course, like me when I was buying, you will see there is a divided set of opinions on whether this item works or not and like me you'll be thinking it's only a few quid what the hell. If it works for you great but, if it doesn't, don't say you weren't warned.

I gave 2 stars due to the price and the time of delivery, arrived today but initially it was due on the18th. However before receiving it, I was getting 93% signal strength and 85 - 90% quality on the tivusat Italian tv box. Connected the booster the signal strength went down to 82% from 93%, the quality was fluctuating between 55 & 70% from a steady 90%.It made everything worse.

I have been looking for some way to increase the signal strength on our Sky box before winter sets in. During heavy rain/snow our picture starts to break up on some channels due to reduced signal strength.I saw these and, even though there were a many reviews stating that they hadn't worked,decided to give them a go. If they didn't work I could always send them back.I purchased two as we have two channels from the dish to the Sky box. They arrived today and took about 10 minutes to fit. This consisted of:Unscrew the cable at the LNB.Screw on the supplied patch cable to the input side of the amplifier.Screw the other end of the short cable on to the LNB.Screw the end of the original cable on to the output side of the amplifier.Tidy up the cables.From previous experience with TV aerials you should fit any amplifiers as close to the aerial/LNB as possible.As you can see from the pictures, the did the job and boosted the signals.Cheers,Andy

I have one freesat dish and two freesat boxes in different rooms in the house.The picture in one romm started playing up - picyure breaking up and picure freeze for no reason. I tried everything including swapping the two freesat boxes with each other - the one room still bad.When I checked the signal streth and quality ( Via the freesat box itself) in the bad room , the signal quality was less than the "good" room. I purchased this amplifier booster box, which was a bargin may I say . fitted it in line with the box. and hey preso no more problems any more . when I checked the signal quailty via the freeset box it indicated the quality when from around 65% to 85%. and the TV works great - can't recomend this box any more its Great