<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Byron Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byronjeff@clayton.edu" target="_blank">byronjeff@clayton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:04:31PM -0400, H P Ladds wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse<br>
</span><span class="">> <[1]<a href="mailto:jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net">jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Xfinity doesn't own any of the equipment in my<br>
> house except the 2 CableCARDs in the back of my TiVo units.<br>
><br>
> Ba ha ha ha<br>
<br>
</span>I'm getting there. Started off with DVR, 3 satellite STB, and wireless eMTA<br>
internet gateway.<br>
<br>
The STB are flaky and expensive ($10 a month rental). Promptly ditched 2 of<br>
them replacing with 2 HDHOMERUN Primes giving 6 tuners that MythTV can<br>
record.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>MythTV was my gateway drug to Linux and OS geekishness. I finally gave-up on it when:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) It was thought that the cablecard was going to be the death of MythTV.</div><div><br></div><div>(2) My pcHDTV / FX5200 cards kept screwing up somehow. (In retrospect, I believe the problem was some sort of IRQ shuffling on reboot.)</div><div><br></div><div>(3) My wife thought the TIVO worked better -- which it did.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As I said before the integrated wireless is pretty bad too. Swapped out<br>
with a TM822G and a T-Link Archer C5 AC1200 triple antenna wireless router.<br>
Both in total cost me less than 1 year's rental on the wireless gateway.<br>
<br>
So I still have the DVR, as a part of my deal, and 1 extra STB that I'm<br>
still trying to figure out how to control with LIRC so that I can use it to<br>
start recording premium content using the older Hauppauge HDPVR 1212 that I<br>
bought a while ago.<br>
<br>
I can't drop the triple play until my intro deal runs out and I collect the<br>
$300 gift card signup bonus. Then I'll kick the phone to the curb and<br>
switch back to Callcentric fronted by the permanent number under Google<br>
Voice. Callcentric is better because it allows you to set the outgoing<br>
CallerID and map numbers to favorite incoming callerID. For $4.50 a month<br>
including E911 service, not too bad.<br>
<br>
BAJ<br>
<br>
><br>
> References<br>
><br>
> 1. mailto:<a href="mailto:jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net">jeremy.bouse@undergrid.net</a><br>
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Clayton State University<br>
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