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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Resetting each unit fixed it.
  2. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I had 3 HR21's replaced today with the HR44/500 a genie mini and a geniewireless. In the guides and menu's I have a really hard time seeing the selected box. It is two very subtle grays. All three genies have the same contrast problem on 3 different LED TV's . So far I can't find any way to...
  3. DIRECTV Connected Home
    That figures - the newest ones I have (3 from todays install) are RC66RX Why would they give me the old ones? Will this look poorly on the installer if I call D? He did a good job otherwise.
  4. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Hey Everyone! Today I had three of my older HR21's replaced with a genieHR44-500, geniemini, geniewireless. The genie mini (wired and wifi) have no IR/RF option that I can find. I really need RF. The GenieHR44 has the option in the menu but it is grayed out. How do you set the remote to RF...
  5. DIRECTV Installation/MDU Discussion
    A BSF?
  6. DIRECTV Installation/MDU Discussion
    Hello all, My friend has a 3 unit house and wants to get off Comcast and go to DirecTv. He wants to install the dish and get his own box, and then tell the renters to contact DirecTv to get their own box. He does not want 3 dish's and wanted to know if it could be done with one. Also, would...
  7. DIRECTV Programming
    Will directv be rebroadcasting any of the HD locals from last night? If so any idea what channel they would be one.
  8. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Thanks for the link. In my case the old HD is playing the rice crispy song as soon as it is powered up. I like the new design it is a lot easier to work with than the old one.
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Hello All, This morning one of our HR24's was not connecting to the group so I went directly to it and it said it had a drive problem. I rebooted it a couple times and it kept reporting the same. So I installed a 2TB green drive I had on the shelf and everything booted right up and looks fine...
  10. DIRECTV Connected Home
    When we see the big dif is when 5 streams are running - Ethernet handles it much better in our case. We also don't have to constantly reboot the DVR's to keep them connected. Glad you took the time to run the test. So many hear just read what D* or the high posters print and take it as gospel.
  11. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Sure but shouldn't there be clear QoS/prioritization use on trickplay etc. This goes over my head which is why we employ engineers to handle it, however my engineer that analyzed it said there is NO difference in packets between trick play or streaming video.
  12. DIRECTV General Discussion
    We recently had a replacement DVR sent out to fix a bad one it was a refurbed HR22 that was sent. It took the unit over 30 min to boot and key presses took 7-10 seconds on just about everything. It was a bad unit. You have a bad unit. (lol - maybe the same one)
  13. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Is DECA even using prioritization? When we had it running here one of my engineers came to the house and set up a mirroring port to read all the traffic in and out, we hooked it up to a lab laptop and let it run for the weekend. He said there is NO prioritization in the headers of the packets...
  14. DIRECTV Connected Home
    The statement was true. It's usefulness is up to the reader - I'll jot down your vote. I did all the troubleshooting I was able to. DirectTV sent our 2 crews on two different occasions to troubleshoot as well. What else should I have done?
  15. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Mmmmmmmm newEgg I got a big Gb NAS box there a few months ago. MRV shouldn't drive your decision to go Gb, if you have a bunch of DVR's maybe. 100Mb is fine for a few DVR's. If you were out to buy a switch, always throw the few extra bucks (if you have them) for Gb. Even if all your devices...
  16. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I don't remember "running" around anywhere, or "bashing" anyone. I have REPEATEDLY stated "In our case" "In our installation" "our results" meaning the household. I have never told anyone to switch. All I ever said is if in doubt "try" ethernet, or if you already have it, by all means use it...
  17. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I get about the same delay starting a remote program on Gig as I did on DECA I think 3-4 sec is probably normal.
  18. DIRECTV Connected Home
    DirecTV came back out twice to test the system and resolve the dropping out issues. Everything tested out fine and the two problem units ALWAYS connect after rebooting them - D* seemed to think that daily reboots was OK and normal. So we DID have it tested by D* themselves. That was over 6...
  19. DIRECTV Connected Home
    All we have is DVR's After a full audit of what is being recorded several months ago, we found a TON of duplicate SP's like Bones on 5 DVR's. So we have broken out several DVR's to handle just sports, just movies, just daytime etc. It has greatly increased storage because there are no longer...
  20. DIRECTV Connected Home
    Granted - however if you have a unit that keeps dropping off the list (even if you only have 2, try Ethernet - that could solve the issue as it did for our problem units. As far as our 8DVR setup, it is what it is, we had multiple issues on DECA and none of the same issues on Ethernet. We were...
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