Actually, Tivo never tries to turn the cable box on. It assumes it is always on. So if your box gets shut off for any reason (like a reboot from the head end) recordings will fail until someone comes and turns the box on. This is the main reason I got rid of my cable box and just use analog cable now. I really don't need 7 HBOs so I can see Crocodile Dundee 3 whenever I want.
It's called serial because the data comes down the cable serially, that is 1 bit after another. As opposed to parallel data where a bunch of bits come down the cable at once, that's why current drives use those multi-conductor ribbon cables.
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Just to add another opinion here. I have this Dlink card as well. Works just fine for me. I've never had the card lose the connection. Of course it may just be that the signal strength is good enough in my house to not expose this limitation of the card. I think the limiting factor on most of these wireless devices is the antenna. Since the PCMCIA cards are mostly meant for laptops, I really don't want a 3' whip antenna on a hat, although I'm sure it would get great reception!
Its clear to me that this is not about actually fixing any bugs, its about being able to say that fixing bugs is important to MS. A month is not enough time to make any real progress on the number of problems that they have to deal with. To the average MS user, this may look like a real shift in the mindset at MS, which is exactly what they want us to think. Evil...Pure Evil.
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Actually, Tivo never tries to turn the cable box on. It assumes it is always on. So if your box gets shut off for any reason (like a reboot from the head end) recordings will fail until someone comes and turns the box on. This is the main reason I got rid of my cable box and just use analog cable now. I really don't need 7 HBOs so I can see Crocodile Dundee 3 whenever I want.
It's called serial because the data comes down the cable serially, that is 1 bit after another. As opposed to parallel data where a bunch of bits come down the cable at once, that's why current drives use those multi-conductor ribbon cables.
Just to add another opinion here. I have this Dlink card as well. Works just fine for me. I've never had the card lose the connection. Of course it may just be that the signal strength is good enough in my house to not expose this limitation of the card. I think the limiting factor on most of these wireless devices is the antenna. Since the PCMCIA cards are mostly meant for laptops, I really don't want a 3' whip antenna on a hat, although I'm sure it would get great reception!
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Its clear to me that this is not about actually fixing any bugs, its about being able to say that fixing bugs is important to MS. A month is not enough time to make any real progress on the number of problems that they have to deal with. To the average MS user, this may look like a real shift in the mindset at MS, which is exactly what they want us to think. Evil...Pure Evil.