<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Michelle Dupuis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdupuis@ocg.ca">mdupuis@ocg.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Sounds like a powe zap!<br>
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I just pulled my PVR 500 out of service. If you want to buy it from my send me a note off list...<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a> [<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>] On Behalf Of MacNean Tyrrell [<a href="mailto:dardack@gmail.com">dardack@gmail.com</a>]<br>
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] video issues with PVR-500<br>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Mike Perkins <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>>> wrote:<br>
Josh White wrote:<br>
I went away on vacation for a few days, and when I returned, something had<br>
happened to my entire home network.<br>
Any possibility you got hacked? If someone got through your router they could have done any amount of damage, none of it predictable.<br>
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Although, from your description, I would suspect some kind of power outage/spike. Don't discount malice, though.<br>
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Yea sounds like a power spike. But as far as the tuners go. I would take the pvr-500's and put them into a windows machine just to see if they work properly in windows. If not, call Hauppauge, they are great at repairing damaged pvr's. I have sent back 2 pvr-250's that were definelty older than 2yrs and they fixed both. Also, my first pvr-500 had 1 bad tuner in it (recorded but like the signal was messed up), sent that back and they repaired.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>So my wife wound up having trouble with her HD Cable box (she's not as into myth as I am), and she decided to call Time Warner to complain and got a tech over to the house while I was at work today. The result was that the signal was quite weak at my house, perhaps due to all the new connections made for all the returning college students (I live in Ithaca, NY with about 50% student population). So while there's no definitive answer, it seems that my signal level was reduced to the point where the digital cable box wasn't able to function, which 14also explains why my two PVR-500s were unable to get enough signal to show good video. I also have the benefit of my cable modem giving me a 20mbit connection today, vs the 6mbit connection I had last week. So while it sucks I had the weekend without recordings, I'm happy it ended with a down connection 333% of what it was. Latency's also improved, though my up-speed is still about 1mbit. Overall, a very happy ending!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the comments!</div><div><br></div><div>-Josh</div>