Jed1 I almost think ALL the video for TiVo stream goes over VPN connections at SECV via Palo Alto firewalls to Xperi’s datacenters where they source all the feeds and ingest local feeds SECV uploads to them. I think there’s a bottleneck here or something. Remember when they were testing it years ago and they like null routed all of TIVO’s IP space into the ether? I think that was part of a misconfiguration getting it setup. I wish I could wireshark one and see exactly how and where it gets the video data from.
My friend got Plume but her issues were worse with it. Constantly having to “forget this network” and keep setting it back up in iPhone and iPads. She couldn’t go out and get the mail without it disconnecting and taking 5 to 10 minutes to reconnect once back in the house.
She made an appointment for Xfinity and they are coming out next week.
We are in the same neighborhood and I have no issues. I don’t think we are in the same node but it’s close.
Yeah there’s NO premium channels on legacy boxes anymore. They are all removed from the guide. I don’t see any RF spectrum savings either. I almost think they are still being broadcast but not mapped.
Comcast uses 44 QAMS for docsis and I know modems can only use 32 at a time, the cmts tells modems which 32 out of 44 to pick from (load balance). Then they have 192 MHz OFDM and another 96 MHz OFDM. SECV still only uses 24 QAM plus 192 MHz OFDM. Maybe once they stop broadcasting the premium channels they will increase that. Though SECV runs fiber deep nodes where Comcast has more customers per node, thus requiring more bandwidth to be earmarked to prevent contention.
Apparently like Comcast had a fire that melted a main fiber trunk a few months back that took out an entire zip code of 132 nodes, SECV had a melted fiber from a Met Ed pole Fire. A bunch in Birdsboro were without service for awhile. I was reading posts on our local fire alerts page and Nextdoor. Someone even posted a picture of the pole on fire.
Oh about the TiVo stream, they are made by Evolution Digital. They may be underpowered but a lot of other operators like RCN (now Astound) for example use them. I’ll have to look and see if there’s complaints from those companies as well. There is an iPhone app but I don’t have credentials to try it.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watch-secv-stream/id6450500445
Sadly this does not appear on the Apple TV App Store. SE Lehigh Valley has an app though and its screen shots look like you can turn an Apple TV into a TiVo stream basically. Blue Ridge, Breezeline, Comporium, HTC, and many other smaller operators all have basically the same app with their own logo and branding. My Apple TV is VERY reliable, and I use the DirecTV app on it with no problems at all. I have a full featured DirecTV system without paying a $7 monthly equipment fee thanks to the app. SECV should roll this out ASAP. Looks like Xperi has framework for providers to brand and publish. Even our cheap lesser powered Roku’s can watch Live TV and DVR recordings via DirecTV app without skipping a beat. Why can’t SECV do the same?
They usually run promos free TiVo Stream for 2 months. If I could pick it up and try it myself maybe… just to experiment and reverse engineer. My guess is they would require a tech to come out. Another thing that could be easily avoided if they just published an app. A simple phone call to add billing codes and grant you credentials for an app would save them so much gas in truck rolls.
