I hear now and then from different people claiming that their friends or Buddy’s FTA Free to Air receivers never go down or in another words, they work for ever.
Sure thing, if they are using their FTA receivers for legitimate free to air broadcast, like BVN TV, 3ABN, RTPi, HRT Satellicki Program, and many many more that are free to everybody as long as you have tuned dish to the right satellite and have the FTA digital satellite receiver.
However if they are using then to hack satellite signal, then since they all work on the same principal, the are going down. That is, they are being shut down frequently.
If I am wrong then please leave a comment with the receiver name and model number with some info on the software version you are using, so we can prove you wrong.
Personally, I think that people claiming this kind of stuff are full of hot air. You can simply go to file sharing and forum sites and look at the new file releases for different models. If there are new file being released then obviously they needed to be fixed. They went down. If you don’t see any newer releases then they didn’t even have a support and they don’t work at all, except for true free channels. The are down for a long time.