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How many TiVo Series Links do you have?
View Poll Results: How many series links do you have on your TiVo?
Less than 100 23 56.10%
100 to 200 11 26.83%
200 to 300 1 2.44%
300 to 400 3 7.32%
400 to 500 1 2.44%
500 to 600 0 0%
600 to 700 0 0%
700 to 800 0 0%
800 to 900 0 0%
1000+ 2 4.88%
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Old 06-08-2016, 14:54   #1
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How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

I'm trying to find out the average number of series links that people have; perhaps this is contributing to the slow TiVo speed in carrying out commands.

I once told a thread that I had about 400 and it was said that this was above the norm, however, i've just read today that one member has 343 and anothet 147.

Could people please pop in the number of series links that their TiVo says they have.

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Old 06-08-2016, 15:31   #2
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

I have 164, and we have had the TiVo almost since it launched on VM, which I think was in 2011.
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Old 06-08-2016, 16:14   #3
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

As l say we have 151 at the last count.
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

I have about 164 and the good thing is these will import over to the new box
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

I have about 76 , but I do delete series links when I know a series will not be returning.
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

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I have about 76 , but I do delete series links when I know a series will not be returning.
I'm going to try and find the time to have a clearout myself to see if it speeds things up.

It's a shame as I always assumed that one of the advantages of the TiVo was that you could have as many SL's as you wanted and leave them there just in case a series ever did return unexpectedly.

I really liked the idea of 'Suggestions', but it seems that the advice is to clear them to speed things up

I'm much more happy to clear out old SL's.

Could those with less than 100 SL's please let us know if your box runs quickly and smoothly.

Does the person with 1000+ have any severe problems with their box?

Do we know if there is a limit on how many SL's the TiVo can have (or comfortably cope with)?
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

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I'm going to try and find the time to have a clearout myself to see if it speeds things up.

It's a shame as I always assumed that one of the advantages of the TiVo was that you could have as many SL's as you wanted and leave them there just in case a series ever did return unexpectedly.

I really liked the idea of 'Suggestions', but it seems that the advice is to clear them to speed things up

I'm much more happy to clear out old SL's.

Could those with less than 100 SL's please let us know if your box runs quickly and smoothly.

Does the person with 1000+ have any severe problems with their box?

Do we know if there is a limit on how many SL's the TiVo can have (or comfortably cope with)?
I turned off suggestions some time ago, as it was not suggesting anything like the series we enjoy and was pointless.
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Old 06-08-2016, 17:56   #8
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

Approx 60 series links and box works fine.

Someone has over 1000 series links.........really??!!
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

68 here
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

151 here, but a lot are now finished / cancelled. Need to do a clear out.
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

58 over here and the box runs fine
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

Up to last week we had over 250 links, 47% usage and the box was sluggish. Whilst I was away from home my husband kept moaning about how slow the Tivo was and I wondered if the number of links/storage may have been to blame so when I got home on Wednesday I had a clear out of the series links, thumbs and recorded shows I knew we would never watch.

We now have 59 links with only 18% of the 500GB showing as used. (rarely bother recording in HD)

.....and the box is still sluggish!!!!!!!!
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

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I turned off suggestions some time ago, as it was not suggesting anything like the series we enjoy and was pointless.
I can understand a box suggesting shows to you however personally I'd rather decide which I want to record than have random rubbish recording all the time.
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

Some ppl, ( the ones who can i mean) need to get out more!
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Re: How many TiVo Series Links do you have?

I also dust my TiVo box about once fortnightly, if this is the right topic to drop that in.
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