Problem aligning dish to W2A sat (10E)

I need major help. I have been trying to align my dish to W2A satellite but the highest signal I get is 29 SQF. That was last week. Now I get only 15 SQF. The following is what I have;

Modem: Hughes HX50
Dish: 1.2m Andrews Dish with 17.2 elevation offset
2 watt radio P/N: 1500192-0123
LNB P/N - 1500287-0001 (NJR2784HH) Rev.B

Config Parameters from OIFNET (Hughes)
Satellite - 10 East (W2A)
Frequency - 16040
Symbol Rate - 15000000
LNB 22KHz - On
DVB Mode - DVB-S2-ACM
Freq Band/Mod - Ku Band 8PSK
Rec Pol - Vert
Trans Pol - Horiz
OTA Freq - 0

Long/Lat - 70E  34 N
Receiver LNB Type - TG 1024572 - 0001      
Transmit Radio - 2 Watt

AZ - 250 degrees
EL - 16 degrees
Pol - 36            

At one point it was pointed to the 21E satellite. The receive and transmits lights were on with 93 SQF. I had someone that had knowledge on configuring the modem to put in the parameters. At first the parameters wouldn't save. We used telnet and deconfigured the modem to clear out the previous parameters, inserted the ones given by my ISP (OIFNET), and power cycled the modem. The power light came on and started to blink at a constant. Nothing else has happen since. It still blinks on and off. My understanding is that it might need a config file to get it going again.

I have tried just about everything I could do to get my dish aligned.

My ISP insists that my config parameter are correct. If anyone can provide some input I would gladly appreciate it.

Charlie

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Mr. Walker,

Please check your email. Thanks for your response.

Chuck

Mr. Walker or anyone else that can assist...

I'm having the same problem as Chuck but didn't see the fix to this problem listed in this thread.

After following the instructions to clear the modem parameters, the modem reset and is now constantly blinking the power light apx 60 seconds after power up and won't allow me to connect to the lan to upload a configuration file.

My ESN is 1864765

Please help!!!

Thanks,
Cliff

Thanks for your attention...

I've resolved my issue by replacing both of our LAN cables in the office.  They were intermittent at best due to someone rolling over it without our knowing it.

I'm actually live on the system as we speak and everything seems to be working as advertised except for my Accelenet software of which has never really worked with my computer...  I can browse the internet without it activated (disabled) but as soon as I activate it and try to browse the internet, I just get a white screen for as long as 30 minutes one time and the progress bar was only about 75% full.  I've turned off all firewall software and have even opend ports 1181 and 1182 to no avail...

Others are able to use the accelenet software with the exception of the last couple days as I think there's something wrong with the accelenet server now...

Thanks again,
Cliff

I'm also having some issues trying to aim my dish at W2A.  I was previously on 7E W3A, but was told that I would be switched to 10E W2A for what ever reason.  Anyway, I managed to get the dish aligned, but I'm unable to get a signal strength higher then 75.  Previoulsy when I was on W3A I was constantly at 93-95.  I was told by my ISP (OIFnet) that this is the highest I would be able to get because of some kind of update that was done on W2A.  I've tried for several days fine tuning my dish and 75 is as good as it gets.  I'm able to use the internet, but not even remotely close to the speeds I had before.  My ISP tells me that signal strength doesn't affect speed of the internet, but I can tell from experience with this system that it does make a difference.  There are 2 other people here at my site that I know were already on W2A and they went from 88-91 signal strength to 73-75 like me.  Not sure what's going on here.  Any advice from is much appreciated.