You can use any free PVR software but it will only work over the air. If you want cable channels you need to use windows media center, its time only one that is cablelabs certified with DRM software. I have a ceton 6 tuner networked tuner and a PC at each TV. The cablecard is $2.00 a month vs DVR box that is $15.00 and HD box which is $7.00. The only downside is no on demand and Microsoft has really stopped development of media center.
On demand works fine on the tivo in my area. I think it is specific. No need for a box. No fee for the first cable card. You actually get a small BYOD credit.
You can buy lifetime service and resell the box later if you choose to recoup a lot of the initial lifetime cost with the Tivo. NO monthly fee.
If you have a retail location go in and tell them you want them to get a tech from one of their tech garages to come out and take a look at it. Don't bother doing anything over the phone.
It's kind of dumb actually.
FYI, If Google hasn't already opened up registration and is currently laying fiber in areas near you, you're going to have a wait. Here in Kansas City, it's roughly a year-ish turnaround from the point that they open up service registration for your neighborhood through the Google/fiber website to when you'll actually have a working connection in your home. Apparently getting fiber lines to every individual house is a time-consuming and slow process, who knew? lol
I believe they are laying it already but not 100% sure.
Are you consistently going over 1TB? That's a good amount of dataUpgraded to ATT Uverse with gigapower. They are at 300/300 atm, supposed to be at gigabit by the end of next month but meh, not sure I'm going to keep it.
The 1TB cap is very unclear and misleading. Originally I didn't have a problem with it, because it was $99 a month + $10 for every 100gb over the 1tb limit, for a maximum of 3 overages ($30). So the way I looked at it was okay, $129 a month for unlimited.
Apparently this isn't the case, they actually start throttling you and practically shut you down. So yeah, it's bullshit overall. Not to mention, I've had 2 outages in a week.
Speed is nice, but will probably just end up waiting for google to get here (supposed to be also sometime this year).
Wow, I've used Time Warner cable broadband for over 15 years now, and in my city we are just recently up to 50Mbps down 5Mbps up as their top-tier plan here(which I have, and pay $69 per month for)). We don't have anywhere near a 300Mbit offering, that would be amazing. The good thing is, TW has never had bandwidth caps or throttling of any kind.
You're in Qwest's old territory then. Go to any of their retail locations (usually mall kiosks) and tell them you want a person from their tech garage out to look at your shit. It'll get figured out real quick. Fixing everything outside the house is free and if they do go in there's a charge but they'll talk that over with you before they do.
