Remote Viewing

I do travel and liked my Dish receiver with a built in Slingbox. Worked fine. Like others, did not like the high cost of Dish Network. So I moved back to cable and Tivo.

BOLT Remote Viewing Cons

• Records all – and many cases does NOT delete the recording when done
• 20 second delay to start – not a biggie… but no other remote devices do this
• BUFFERING ALL THE TIME – This is a biggie

BOLT Remote Viewing Pros

• None

MY NETWORK:
Speedtest.net ----- 61 Mbps download 4.75 up.


What I have tried….

• Manually adding the ports to my router
• Connect my BOLT directly to my router
• Adding it to the DMZ Zone (bypassing any port issues)
• Also tried adding it to the “media prioritization” (QOS) on my new Linksys router.

FIX:
Purchased a Slingbox. Accepted default settings for my network.


TESTING PROCESS
Using my phone…
From a remote, good Wi-Fi network, I connected to my BOLT and selected a live TV channel. It opened and started and the buffering started. Plays for a few seconds.. Buffers for a few, plays for a few, buffers for a few. On and on…
CLOSE out of the TIVO app
Launch my Slingbox app on same phone and network
Selected the same live TV channel… works fine, ZERO buffering.

Comments...
The Slingbox is not perfect. They added adds to the bottom of the screen. Easy to remove via your host file in Windows. But its way above what I can get TIVO to do.

If I missed anything to get the TIVO to stop buffering, please chime in.

Thanks!!