London time??
What the fuck is 'London time'??
GMT, surely
Virgin Media subscribers are complaining that their TiVo set-top boxes are randomly and repeatedly restarting in what appears to be a widespread service disruption. Lots of Brits posting to the UK cableco's support forum say the TV boxes, provided by Virgin Media, being thrown into reboot loops. The issue appears to have …
In the U.K. there is only London when it comes to news.
Example,
Snow in the North nothing on the news, Snow in London - catastrophe, cats living with dogs, end of the world apocalypse.
Someone farts in public in London - Outrage, Fart in the North - Comment about too much gravy.
In the U.K. there is only London when it comes to news.
One third of the population of the UK lives or works inside the M25. London produces roughly half the taxes for the UK.
If you want us to become independent, a la Singapore, just say the word.
(Queue the downvotes from the UKIP types I guess....)
how about downvotes for made up statistics internet bullshit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London
in 2011 8 million in greater london.
same year, there were 53 million in England, 10 more in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom
so you're not even close to accurate.15% of the country live in london. less than 13% of the uk.
so thats living in london. to go from 8 to a third of 63 the population of the UK, you're telling me there is a 13 million person influx into london on a daily basis? no wonder southwestern trains are a mess.
show me where you got the stat from and i'll take it as valid.
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Give the rest of us a referendum to separate from the south-east, and I suspect you'd be on your own by Christmas. There'd be a reduction of support for Scottish Independence from the reduced rUK too, since most of the dissatisfaction up here is with you lot down there hogging all the pies.
"One third of the population of the UK lives or works inside the M25."
So? A fairly large chunk of the land mass inside the M25 isn't part of the GLA. Most of my work is in York but I don't really give a stuff about Yorks "local" news so what makes you think commuters care more for London news than the news for where they live?
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I quite like the names they give their vans.
Don't let the cable companies have any control over the software. My Tivo has none of these problems, because I bought it so I am getting TIvo's software. It isn't perfect, a couple years ago it would restart randomly about once a month until the next software update (typically they have two major updates a year) but I'd be livid if mine was restarting every 60 seconds. I have just the Tivo and one TV, so I'd be unable to watch or record anything if this was happening!
I know, I know, Tivo doesn't have Apple's market power so they need to appease the cable companies by giving them control of the software for branding, etc. The problem is this will damage Tivo's brand as a lot of Virgin subscribers who have this problem on their Tivo but not on other non-Tivo STBs will blame Tivo and have a permanently bad opinion of them when it is Virgin's fault.
No.
I was on the phone with them - they have a routing clusterf*** of some sort. The initial blame was on a CMTS, but I suspect that it is not.
The time for the Tivo 100% fault correlates to the time when the VPN from my house to my VM in the cloud packed up. The CMTS fault was logged later, but I would not be surprised that it is the wrong thing to blame.
I had some giggles when talking to the guy as I was standing in front of (a different provider's) CMTS at that exact moment and it just had a fit and dropped its default for a while :)
If the latest TiVo boxes are anything like the original Series 1 TiVos (mine still going strong after 15 years) it's standard procedure to reboot in the event of an upstream failure - in the case of the S1 it will reboot if it's not receiving a TV signal (the assumption being the encoder, decoder or some other part of the chain has crashed/locked up). It's an extreme, but pragmatic, solution for a problem that happens very rarely.
If some part of the Virgin network or cable system is down this could easily explain the behaviour of the box which will keep rebooting until normal service is restored.
My next door neighbour came round last night and asked me to look at her VM setup. The Tivo was endlessly rebooting as has been well documented here.
I quickly re-routed one of my FreeSat feeds into her home and let her borrow my spare PVR.
I left her happy.
I fully expect that she'll be an ex VM customer by the end of the week. She is more than welcome to share my FreeSat.
The postie has just been with yet another 'Buy my super reliable Cable' plea from VM. I'm having a Barbie over the weekend. Guess what I'll be using to light it?
Posting A/C simply becuse I'm fed up with being bombarded with crap from VM. Who knows, they might be able to tack me down from my El Reg name.
You can't split satellite antenna signals, each tuner (so two for most PVRs and one for a general receiver) needs an individual connection to the LNB. If you're in adjoining properties all you need is another cable down from the LNB on the front of the dish. I understand that most satellite installers fitting PVRs these days don't bother with dual output LNBs and just fit a quad as standard, so there are generally two spare outputs available for future use (or sharing with the neighbors). I'd also put an earth strap on the cable as well, just in case.
Stuff like this is just plain crazy.
Why don't they basically just build a pc and stream in the same way that other online services do (eg bbc iPlayer) ... they could free up move bandwidth for use to the broadband provision and only have to deal with a single means of data handling on their network.
VM have great broadband imo but their TV service is just plain broken ... like why series links not start the recording when the show starts like sky does?
I'm tempted to drop my TV and just have the broadband.
@Wardy01
Because that would mean they needed to implement multicast properly - and their techs haven't heard about it yet...
Their network is pretty much the perfect environment for testing this kind of solution - but since the existing system works (sort-of) they stick with it