Also obviously a forum newbie but I have been perusing the forum for a couple of weeks.
My cable monopoly, Charter, has rolled out encryption with a deadline to convert of August 26. As the deadline approaches, Charter is degrading our signal more and more each day. I have had two RePlayTVs (5040s upgraded to 300 GB drives, obviously standard definition) for more than a decade which have worked flawlessly and which I would happily continue to use but the move to encryption means it’s time to move into the 21st century and the ability to record HD TV channels with a Roamio Pro and Mini, actually two Minis, just in case, for our two 50” TVs.
My Roamio Pro and the Minis are still sealed in the shipping box which I will open after posting this. Earlier I picked up a cable card (Motorola M card), a set top box (Dolby?) and a tuning adapter (also Motorola). There is no charge for these Charter supplied devices for one year. I see no use for the set top box because our only two TVs will run through the Roamio and Mini using the cable card. Being new to this encryption crap, I am uncertain if I need the tuning adapter (previously I just screwed the coax cable from the cable drop splitter to my RePlayTV and then coax from each of my RePlayTVs into each of my two TVs.) We will only be using Basic and Expanded Service from Charter and we will not order on-demand shows nor anything else - ever. I will shortly call TiVo for advice on whether I really need the tuning adapter.
I plan to connect the Roamio to my network using existing Powerline Ethernet (for the electronic program guide and software updates) and connect the Roamio and Mini via MoCA. MoCA is new to me! (I have seen nooneuknow’s signature regarding the tuning adapter, no PoE bought yet!) I do not have wired Ethernet except in one room of my home (brand new Cisco DOCSIS 3 Charter thanks-for-nothing forced rental modem to MacSense 10/100 router (four port) and a Compex 10/100 switch (eight port), both over a decade old), using 200mb Powerline wherever else I need to use Ethernet as well as WiFi (yes, WEP only on an original 802.11b Apple Airport Base station which is about 15 years old.) Back to MoCA; I have always just grabbed whatever splitters were cheapest because I only needed them for TV and a short run to my cable modem. Whatever splitter I grabbed worked. As did everything else – the network untouched for over a decade except to connect a few devices (computers, printer, Ooma) and Powerline.
Now to see how the new stuff works with all the ancient stuff! Hopefully MoCA will work with my random splitters…
I guess I need to make 10 posts to view certain things on the forum so this is one down :)
(I hope this is the appropriate sub-forum for this type of post.)
My cable monopoly, Charter, has rolled out encryption with a deadline to convert of August 26. As the deadline approaches, Charter is degrading our signal more and more each day. I have had two RePlayTVs (5040s upgraded to 300 GB drives, obviously standard definition) for more than a decade which have worked flawlessly and which I would happily continue to use but the move to encryption means it’s time to move into the 21st century and the ability to record HD TV channels with a Roamio Pro and Mini, actually two Minis, just in case, for our two 50” TVs.
My Roamio Pro and the Minis are still sealed in the shipping box which I will open after posting this. Earlier I picked up a cable card (Motorola M card), a set top box (Dolby?) and a tuning adapter (also Motorola). There is no charge for these Charter supplied devices for one year. I see no use for the set top box because our only two TVs will run through the Roamio and Mini using the cable card. Being new to this encryption crap, I am uncertain if I need the tuning adapter (previously I just screwed the coax cable from the cable drop splitter to my RePlayTV and then coax from each of my RePlayTVs into each of my two TVs.) We will only be using Basic and Expanded Service from Charter and we will not order on-demand shows nor anything else - ever. I will shortly call TiVo for advice on whether I really need the tuning adapter.
I plan to connect the Roamio to my network using existing Powerline Ethernet (for the electronic program guide and software updates) and connect the Roamio and Mini via MoCA. MoCA is new to me! (I have seen nooneuknow’s signature regarding the tuning adapter, no PoE bought yet!) I do not have wired Ethernet except in one room of my home (brand new Cisco DOCSIS 3 Charter thanks-for-nothing forced rental modem to MacSense 10/100 router (four port) and a Compex 10/100 switch (eight port), both over a decade old), using 200mb Powerline wherever else I need to use Ethernet as well as WiFi (yes, WEP only on an original 802.11b Apple Airport Base station which is about 15 years old.) Back to MoCA; I have always just grabbed whatever splitters were cheapest because I only needed them for TV and a short run to my cable modem. Whatever splitter I grabbed worked. As did everything else – the network untouched for over a decade except to connect a few devices (computers, printer, Ooma) and Powerline.
Now to see how the new stuff works with all the ancient stuff! Hopefully MoCA will work with my random splitters…
I guess I need to make 10 posts to view certain things on the forum so this is one down :)
(I hope this is the appropriate sub-forum for this type of post.)
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