On 11/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry K</b> <<a href="mailto:lunchtimelarry@gmail.com">lunchtimelarry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This thread doesn't give me a warm-fuzzy re: firewire. Is anyone else having success?<div><span class="e" id="q_10f33c74b5795f50_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yeechang Lee
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> says:<br>> I've experimented with multiple DCT-6200s and multiple DCT-6412s. I<br>> have observed no difference in the reliability of the firewire<br>> output between the models. Both are require persistence in
<br>> establishing a reliable connection. Then they will work *extremely*<br>> reliably for an unforecastable period of time. Then they switch<br>> ports (or just decide to be flaky again) for no obvious reason.
<br><br>This--weeks, or months, of 100% reliability[1], followed by an hour or<br>two of frustration with migrating ports or whatnot before working<br>again for weeks or months--is exactly my experience with FireWire with
<br>my two 6200s . . . *Before* I swtiched, as per Jim Westfall's advice,<br>to the method I outlined at<br><URL:<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/233570#233570" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/233570#233570
</a>><br>(from one week ago).<br><br>[1] Excluding channel switching, which always has and probably always<br>will fail once every 20-30 recordings.<br><br>--<br>Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</div><br>I've been using firewire to a DCT-6200 cable box with great success, its reliable about 99% of the time. The firewire ports migrate occasionally, usually when the cable box is rebooted but this is very infrequent on my system as I've protected it with a decent ups.
<br><br>I'd also give a shout-out to RCN of Massachusetts as I'm getting 100% of my channel line-up including subscription Hi-Def content (HBO etc) over firewire here without any of that 5C nonsense. <br><br>--Frank