Posts by spin9k

Quote:Originally Posted by agthorn My remaining hangup in 'cutting the cord' is DVR. I admit that I am addicted to my uverse 'any room' access DVR. I am even thinking of getting further addicted to it with the addition of a sling...

Quote:Originally Posted by madaudio ....But hey, whatever happened to 3D holographics?? Remember seeing a mini-version on a Japanese stand at a world expo way back in the 80s or 90s. Now that WOULD be interesting. Beam me to the...

It goes wo/saying that paying attention to one reviewer of anything is not good. CNETs reviews are often so abridged as to be not useful anyway. The bad thing is CBS won't air it censorship in public after this. The 'taint is now...

As far as what you can do with your DTV boxes, someone else will have to chime in as I am satellite and comcast TV free. Sorry.

Two stages need to be taken care of, 1st, get things connected to the internet, 2nd, log into account for internet services. Anything wired should be all set and connected to the internet as is, as your router will take care of that...

I didn't notice before, but if you really have a **hub** and not a **switch**, junk it and get a switch. They are not the same, so a new switch could help a lot.

Good luck. I've thought of running cable in my old house, but it is such a pain to do. Fortunately, wireless has worked out ok recently, once I got the right high power WiFi equipment and wireless 'n' came to give reasonable throughput...

Not clear what your problem is. If you have these devices hooked up, are they being supplied with internet and so online? If so, what's the problem? If not, which are working ok, and which are not?

Testing a CAT5e run can really only be done with a good tester. I use a certification test tool and it runs through all the parameters required of a CAT5e or whatever type of cable certification I need. Then it tells me exactly where in...

I cut the cord completely from cable and satellite a couple years ago. Aside from the aggravation of paying for ~95% of yuk channels on either forwarder I couldn't care less about, mostly infomercials, many sports channels, useless SD...