2013-12-29, 06:59 PM
Charter Tech showed up today, and prefaced my appointment with "I have no spare cards with me, or in the warehouse and the last cable card install I went through 9 cards." I didn't foresee it going well.
I had done a fair amount of reading so I knew it would be no easy task to get the Cable Card portion up and running. He called the special number for Charter Techs, told them what was going and he apparently got someone who knew what they what they were doing. They immediately saw an issue, and put the devices on my account in the "correct order". Apparently the cable card has to the be the last device in the list or it will not authenticate properly with Charters Cable Card system. Being an IT guy, I wanted to call BS! However, the tech updated my account and said hold on while I test it. They tested it, had me scan for channels and I now can tune/record EVERY single channel that I get on my HD box in the other room!
Needless to say, I was shocked and surprised!
Now I am also thinking of getting a second HD Prime and Cable Card and dropping my HD box altogether...
I had done a fair amount of reading so I knew it would be no easy task to get the Cable Card portion up and running. He called the special number for Charter Techs, told them what was going and he apparently got someone who knew what they what they were doing. They immediately saw an issue, and put the devices on my account in the "correct order". Apparently the cable card has to the be the last device in the list or it will not authenticate properly with Charters Cable Card system. Being an IT guy, I wanted to call BS! However, the tech updated my account and said hold on while I test it. They tested it, had me scan for channels and I now can tune/record EVERY single channel that I get on my HD box in the other room!
Needless to say, I was shocked and surprised!
Now I am also thinking of getting a second HD Prime and Cable Card and dropping my HD box altogether...
NPVR Rig: HP Laptop, 3rd Gen i7, 8gb DDR3, 250gb SSD (OS), Records to 6tb array on my server, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun PRIME
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