Fetch Free To Air reception problems

[Sined]

HELP

We have a Fetch Mighty STB ,for the first eight months or so our Fetch worked fine. Recently it has been intermittently showing a broken up/pixilated picture on the SBS channel. This has got worse and we now also have a problem when we switch from another channel to SBS we get both displayed on the screen at the same time (both pixilated).

We have had professional Technician replace the antenna and check the signal strength on the cable that plugs into the Fetch.  He said we had excellent signal strength.

We have also carried out a software reset and hardware reset complete with full channel search.

The problem still exists.  The TV connected directly to the antenna has no problems  

Have twice tried to get help via live chat but without success.

After the second “chat” we had a conversation with someone from a call centre who suggested we do all the things listed above.

We need to be able to speak with someone in Australia.

Can this be organized?

Appreciate some help.

[petergdownload]

If you've confirmed the reception professionally then its reasonable to consider the box is faulty. Fetch units are known for having weak FTA tuners. Three options:

1) Clear and rescan all channels (What postcode are you in?)

2) Do a hard reset on the Fetch and rescan everything 

3) Contact Optus and request a replacement box be sent out. Its a leased unit so Optus remain ever responsible for it. They'll send a sachel to return the old one in for free and you should get a new unit in a few days. Use LIVECHAT, FACEBOOK or the Optus Mobile app.

Note options 2 & 3 will delete all recordings.

Peter Gillespie

[Sined]

Hi Peter Thanks for your suggestions. I will try and get a replacement.

Sined

[Ido_420]

Hi there,

Free to Air with Fetch does have issues which was reported as a known outage. It is because of the tuners in the Fetch mighty box which doesn't filter the signals properly.
Performing a Hard reset and Re-scan won't help sometimes if the tuners cannot scatter the signals. I would suggest to call Optus TV Tech support and report the fault so that they can help you with external device information which you can purchase and that also fixes the issue.

[MightyFetch]

OP already stated they did all you suggested 😞

[MightyFetch]

By external device info do you mean boosters? 

[petergdownload]

Yes. Personally I suggest Kingray.

Peter Gillespie

[Aussierob2001]

Hi..

I just received a new Maxi Fetch and I am a new customer. 

I get no clear free to air channels and I was fortunate to find this thread.

Thank you to all who offered advice. Appreciated,

Cheers

AussieRob2001   Katoomba, Blue Mountains,