Hey sotti! have had numerous attempts with my own stb3100 to get something usefull,it has an orig.smartcard in it,it sits hooked up to optusb3 signal 12407,30000,vert. shows 80%strenght,55% quality on its signal meter,map channels still nothing!useless swap the decoder box to own strong4800 same freq.dish etc.up come the Fta stuff,and Ubi stuff is gone encrypt anyway for this month ,Globecast stuff Ok. as to the smartcard tarbs have put it intomy serialport Mastercrd2 and doent read anything usefull off it??? with master crd2 programmer you can clone some cards with suitable software,just dont work with Tarbs cards,and many others?Dont ask! No Foxtel,Austar,Tarbs ex or any other Ird2 cards Ok.