SS MAYFLOAT
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We have a DVR in our living room and a converter box in the rec room. The cable is hooked to a TV that just gives the basic channels in our bedroom. One small bedroom was turned into the computer room. It has one cable that goes to the main splitter.
During my re-wire of my house, I put cable outlets with phone jacks on each wall. Each room has 4 jacks that are daisy chained to one coax at the main splitter on the outside (except the computer room). The one that supplys the line for our bedroom also has the phone modem for our telephone.
Now here's my problem. The converter box in rec room started freezing and what I call digital breakdown. Bits and pieces gone in the picture. I had my wife take it back to the cable company. She came home with a new DVR and a converter box. I hook up the converter up in the rec room. It boots up, the clock shows the time and the sceen goes blue. Turn the box on and it sez "This converter box has not been authorized. Call blah blah ah yeah". Okay I'm dismayed but go see if the DVR in the bedroom works. Geeesh, it boots up on 4 of the 6 bars. After six minuets the screen goes blank and boots up again only getting 4 bars of the download.
Wife calls the tech center about the problems of both. They say I have a week signal. So I go cleaning and tighening what juctions I can get to. Finally I got fed up and removed our good DVR in the living and put the converter box in. Again the same message came up. Hmmmmm The DVR works fine on this line, but the box don't. So now I try the new DVR on a known good line. It booted up in about 2 minuets with all the channels and guide. Works fine. Now I thought I would hook up the original DVR on the line in the bedroom to see if it would work there. NO POWER! Yikes now what. The DVR will not turn on. Geeesh, all I did was shut it off and unhook it. Now it won't come back on. The remote won't turn it on or the button.
Could all the cable that is run throughout the house be drawing the db's to cause a week signal? Its odd that I can hook up a TV on any of the outlets and it works fine. All the splitters that I used was supplied by the cable company. Thier tech told me how to run and do the project. BTW, I even tried the conveter box right at the main splitter on the outside of the house and got the same message. So it has to be bad. The new DVR works, but now I need to get them to give me another DVR that lost power. Thats a 3 gallon road trip. I think they should at least give us some movies for free. I'm not ranting,,,,,,just wonderin
During my re-wire of my house, I put cable outlets with phone jacks on each wall. Each room has 4 jacks that are daisy chained to one coax at the main splitter on the outside (except the computer room). The one that supplys the line for our bedroom also has the phone modem for our telephone.
Now here's my problem. The converter box in rec room started freezing and what I call digital breakdown. Bits and pieces gone in the picture. I had my wife take it back to the cable company. She came home with a new DVR and a converter box. I hook up the converter up in the rec room. It boots up, the clock shows the time and the sceen goes blue. Turn the box on and it sez "This converter box has not been authorized. Call blah blah ah yeah". Okay I'm dismayed but go see if the DVR in the bedroom works. Geeesh, it boots up on 4 of the 6 bars. After six minuets the screen goes blank and boots up again only getting 4 bars of the download.
Wife calls the tech center about the problems of both. They say I have a week signal. So I go cleaning and tighening what juctions I can get to. Finally I got fed up and removed our good DVR in the living and put the converter box in. Again the same message came up. Hmmmmm The DVR works fine on this line, but the box don't. So now I try the new DVR on a known good line. It booted up in about 2 minuets with all the channels and guide. Works fine. Now I thought I would hook up the original DVR on the line in the bedroom to see if it would work there. NO POWER! Yikes now what. The DVR will not turn on. Geeesh, all I did was shut it off and unhook it. Now it won't come back on. The remote won't turn it on or the button.
Could all the cable that is run throughout the house be drawing the db's to cause a week signal? Its odd that I can hook up a TV on any of the outlets and it works fine. All the splitters that I used was supplied by the cable company. Thier tech told me how to run and do the project. BTW, I even tried the conveter box right at the main splitter on the outside of the house and got the same message. So it has to be bad. The new DVR works, but now I need to get them to give me another DVR that lost power. Thats a 3 gallon road trip. I think they should at least give us some movies for free. I'm not ranting,,,,,,just wonderin
