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Traduk · 31-01-2007, 13:35

It is a heck of a shame that you are having so much trouble. I have found that the V+ box is excellent apart from very infrequent frame freezes which is a head-end signal break as opposed to anything to do with the TV Drive.

I think that if you use the Computer analogy then the mode in which I think it should by thought of is as a client working off a server. For client\server the send\receive path must be perfect or the client will show all manner of problems.

In all the years I had CableTel and now NTL, I had all manner of problems with cable modem and TV. I cancelled all services and gave them the notice period to sort the problems with an insistence that they upgrade the old skinny cat cable to the latest much fatter cat 11. I could see the CM parameters drifting outside of parameters on a daily basis but after a re-run with better co-ax I have not had a problem since (about 2 years ago).

IMO the more kit has to do the greater the impact of sub-optimal lines and it would be a shame if you rejected what I find to be very good kit on the basis of possibly a sub par feed.

31-01-2007, 13:35	#2
Traduk Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 312	Re: TV-Drive my review It is a heck of a shame that you are having so much trouble. I have found that the V+ box is excellent apart from very infrequent frame freezes which is a head-end signal break as opposed to anything to do with the TV Drive. I think that if you use the Computer analogy then the mode in which I think it should by thought of is as a client working off a server. For client\server the send\receive path must be perfect or the client will show all manner of problems. In all the years I had CableTel and now NTL, I had all manner of problems with cable modem and TV. I cancelled all services and gave them the notice period to sort the problems with an insistence that they upgrade the old skinny cat cable to the latest much fatter cat 11. I could see the CM parameters drifting outside of parameters on a daily basis but after a re-run with better co-ax I have not had a problem since (about 2 years ago). IMO the more kit has to do the greater the impact of sub-optimal lines and it would be a shame if you rejected what I find to be very good kit on the basis of possibly a sub par feed.