DSTV Installation Germiston

As a guide, a basic single-decoder installation starts from R800, an Explora installation from R1,200 and an Extra View setup from R1,500, with fault-finding call-outs from R550. Equipment such as decoders is extra. Business premises with several screens are quoted per site once we have seen the layout — photos on WhatsApp help.

No. We are an independent installation company, not a MultiChoice office, walk-in centre or agency, and we cannot open accounts, take payments or replace smartcards. For anything to do with your subscription, billing or smartcard, contact MultiChoice on 011 289 2222 or through dstv.com. What we do is the physical side: the dish, the LNB, the cabling, the decoder setup and the fault finding.

Germiston South, Parkhill Gardens, Lambton, Tedstoneville, Klippoortje A.L., Estera, Castleview, Wadeville, Primrose and Dawnview, plus the streets in between. Each of those has its own page explaining what an installation there usually involves. If your address is nearby but not on the list, ask anyway.

Yes, but check first. In a complex the outside wall and the roof are often common property, so the trustees or the managing agent decide whether a dish may go up and where. Some schemes already have a communal dish, in which case the work is a cable from an existing point into your unit rather than a new dish at all. If you rent, get the owner's permission in writing before the appointment.

Yes — reception areas, canteens, boardrooms, workshops and security offices, including sites in Wadeville and the surrounding commercial areas. One dish can feed several decoders through a multi-output LNB or a multiswitch, sized to the number of screens. Showing DStv to staff or customers is commercial use, so the account type is arranged directly with MultiChoice.

It can, completely. A satellite signal needs a clear path, and leaves absorb it — which is why a dish installed in winter, when a tree is bare, can start breaking up once it fills out in summer. The tell is a fault that is worse in the evenings and worse after rain. A meter reading at the dish settles it in a few minutes.

An E48 error means the decoder isn't getting an adequate satellite signal. E48-32 is the weather-related version: heavy rain or a storm is weakening the signal, and it usually clears when the weather does. If it persists after the sky has cleared, the usual causes are a dish that has moved, a failing LNB, water in a connector or damaged cable — we test each to find which.

E16 usually points to a subscription or smartcard issue rather than your dish. Check your account at dstv.com or call MultiChoice on 011 289 2222. If the account is active and the error stays, get in touch and we'll check the decoder.

Unplug it and call us. Lightning can reach equipment through the power supply or down the dish cable, and a dead decoder after a storm is a different job from a signal fault — we check the decoder, the LNB and the TV connection separately. The simplest protection in future is to unplug the decoder when a storm is close. Weather damage is quoted separately.

Call 077 454 4032, send a WhatsApp, or use the contact form on this website. Give us your suburb and street, say what you need, and we'll come back to you with a quote and a time.