Dish vs Comcast on-demand?

[th3w01f]

I was in the initial beta testing back in February (ish). Was rough at first, but they have the kinks ironed out ant it's been running great for the last 4 months or so.

It's the DVR size that concerns me. I have 1TB drives in my current DVRs. I've heard there are plans to allow external storage at some point in CO.

[trlcavscout]

It's the DVR size that concerns me. I have 1TB drives in my current DVRs. I've heard there are plans to allow external storage at some point in CO.

Their is also a cloud coming soon. With on demand do you really need more then 500Gb? 5 tuners to record at a time on any channel any time (yes you can set 5 from a terminal). You can sink WiFi keyboards and stuff to them, the apps are limited right now but hopefully will be growing quickly. They are a pain to setup, your wiring has to be good, but if they are installed correctly its pretty cool.

[th3w01f]

Their is also a cloud coming soon. With on demand do you really need more then 500Gb? 5 tuners to record at a time on any channel any time (yes you can set 5 from a terminal). You can sink WiFi keyboards and stuff to them, the apps are limited right now but hopefully will be growing quickly. They are a pain to setup, your wiring has to be good, but if they are installed correctly its pretty cool.

both of out DVRs are sitting about 70% with no overlap. I'd have to check ondemand to see if the episodes I have saved are on there.

[00tec]

The current x1 is 500gb. X2 is pending rollout (dont know eta) and it's cloud based.

[th3w01f]

The current x1 is 500gb. X2 is pending rollout (dont know eta) and it's cloud based.

Do you know of they're going to go to usage based billing for cloud DVR? Something like $10 per 100GB per month?

[fitz19d]

Anyone know Baja broadband? We were getting reamed for net/cable. Roomate swapped to Direct for his tv. Still have baja for net, but looking for other options.

Problem is west milliken apparently doesn't have comcast. I know theres century link, anyone know of anything better than that? Gamer/video watcher but don't torrent.

[trlcavscout]

Anyone know Baja broadband? We were getting reamed for net/cable. Roomate swapped to Direct for his tv. Still have baja for net, but looking for other options.

Problem is west milliken apparently doesn't have comcast. I know theres century link, anyone know of anything better than that? Gamer/video watcher but don't torrent.

Yes Milliken is Baja, which just got bought out again a few months ago. Generally their internet is pretty good, not as good as Comcast but way better then century link. I have Baja at home for my free cable but I don't have internet. What's wrong with your Baja?

[Irving]

Linksys will cap your speed long before Comcast will. Make sure you switch to a Netgear or a D-link if you are using a Linksys.

[Gman]

Linksys will cap your speed long before Comcast will. Make sure you switch to a Netgear or a D-link if you are using a Linksys.

Not sure what you mean by that blanket statement regarding a brand. I have a Linksys Router at home and it in no way is the bottleneck in my network.

[trlcavscout]

Not sure what you mean by that blanket statement regarding a brand. I have a Linksys Router at home and it in no way is the bottleneck in my network.

Linksys/Cisco is crap as a general rule of thumb and cause a lot of problems. So maybe their are a few good ones but again as a rule of thumb.