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Had my install today!
Tech was really good and knowledgeable (well as much as they can be this early)
I need to head out shortly, so this will be just a QUICK overview, go into MUCH more detail about all the stuff when I get back later tonight.
Modem set up, put at demarc. Built in range was decent, but not great for my 3rd box, so installed a MESH wireless. Seems to work well from what I can see. (I am running NOT bridged right now.. as my RT-N66U is getting a little long in the tooth.) I was able to get 300+/25 on wireless (on 500u). Wired seems fine.
X1 boxes are TINY, like android box sized.
Seem to work well though, VERY fast to respond. Recording work. Playback works. Playback via cell/ipad works.
Cant seem to find where to change the wifi network right now.. will ask the concierge when I talk to them tomorrow.
Again, will write a much larger review later tonight. If you have questions, let me know and I can try and see/check about it.
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@julray wrote:
Is there anywhere I can find a list of 4K channels for the popular tv bundle?
Rogers has allocated channels 970 - 999 on Ignite TV for 4K channels.
For 4K movies, press the "Rogers" button on your Ignite TV remote, go to the "On Demand" section, go to "Movies"and scroll down. You'll see a section called, "Movies Available in 4K!"
Thought I would make a FEATURE UPDATE type post on here. Some of these might have been here for a bit? and I never noticed fully.
- Amazon Prime - You can now access amazon prime from the box. Its an app, just like netflix, youtube, etc. It does require a prime subscription. Logged in with mine, and it works great so far.
- Bluetooth devices - There is an option to add a bluetooth audio device to the unit. I havent tested it, to know if when connected the device will auto mute the audio out via HDMI. But this could be very useful for some who who say listens to the TV in the bedroom with a partner (most of the time now have to use audio out to basic RF headphones). Might work with say other bluetooth speaker systems?
The rest of these things generally revolve around 'Parental Controls' type of stuff. These can come in handy say with people who have a TV in a kids room, playroom, etc.
- Limit Recordings - You can lock/limit recordings to specific boxes. So the general recordings could be available on two boxes, but not available on the kids one. Could also be used say if you have an in-law/parent living in the house, etc.
- Full block parental controls - Can lock the whole box overall to specific age level, which I think will block all areas. To access anything higher requires a PIN.
- App Locks - can lock out access to other app services. So say allow Netflix but block youtube.
- Other more granular lockouts - Lock stuff specifically based on ratings. Lock specific channels. Lock just specific titles (say you dont want them watching just one specific show). Lock on demand from access.
As I get some more free time hopefully over holiday vacation, I think I may start working on a more in detail Parental Control guide for here and for the internet section.
Parental controls is becoming a bigger and bigger deal for many parents. And many are not even aware WHAT they can do to help protect their children.
@bjsmitty If somebody assured you that "you would not lose anything", that's unfortunate. If anybody had ever told me that, about any service, I would certainly have taken that answer with a huge grain of salt. Moving to Ignite TV is not like a software update. It's a completely different product and platform in all respects. With Ignite TV, you do gain quite a bit of functionality over Digital TV (e.g. tight integration with Netflix and other third-party services, to name one example) but the two products are very different and even the features that they share work differently.
I don't know what to say about "i also asked if netflix was part of ignite and was told yes."; Netflix support is but the subscription is not.
I hope that Rogers reviews exactly what was said on your call(s).
I have the 3-Xi6 hard wired but have also had them wireless to my Netgear router and/or Asus AP Wifi
150 is MORE than enough. I have 150 with 3 Xi6, albeit they don't run all at once. Consider HD is about 6m/min and 4k is 20m/min. I have seen no affect on Internet speed on my computers when watching TV.
The Harmony one with hub is compatible but you will not have voice control which, IMHO, is the best feature of Ignite TV.
Good Luck
Bill
@davej13 wrote:
Thanks Bill, maybe I'll give them a call this weekend to see if the price would be comparable to what I'm paying now. Just hard to give up on the 4 Nextboxes that I own.
FYI, at one time, Rogers was offering a trade-in allowance: a $25 bill credit for each NextBox 2.0 or 4K / $50 bill credit for each NextBox 2.0, 3.0 or 4K PVR that you own. I don't know if this offer is still valid (I can't find the link anymore) but you can certainly ask.
@davej13 wrote:
I'm considering moving to Ignite TV from the whole home Nextbox, especially since the boxes are starting to show some issues, but had a couple questions. I think I read that you can connect the boxes to a router acting as a wireless AP, is this correct? My modem would need to be in the basement and I'd be worried about the signal getting to the top floor.
Coming from the Ignite75 internet service, is the 150 enough if we'll potentially be watching a couple streams at once or should I try to push for the 500?
Rumour has it that the Rogers techs are now installing Pods free of charge to provide sufficient Wi-Fi coverage for your Ignite TV set-top boxes. If you need to augment Wi-Fi coverage elsewhere in your home, you'll have to pay a nominal monthly fee for additional Pods. (I don't know if this is policy or if this is just something that a tech can do at their discretion or with approval from their management.)
I currently have 3 Xi6 set-top boxes and the 150Mb/s service is ample for my purposes. Budget 10Mb/s for each HD stream that you will be watching and 25Mb/s for each 4K stream. Recordings are all done "in the cloud" so you don't have to worry about reserving any bandwidth for local recordings. It's also easy enough to upgrade if you find that you need more bandwidth at a later date. You can do this yourself through MyRogers; no tech visit required.
I agree, that the installer likely did a poor job.
With that many TVs.. I am guessing its a pretty bigger house?
Did they only install the modem itself, and not any of the wifi pods?
90% of the time the cut outs and issues that way, are all around signal to the box.. with a good wifi setup, this generally shouldnt happen.
This may have also partially effected the speeds you were getting?
Yes with Bell, generally they have two different devices.
But outside of specific areas, were they are able to offer much faster speeds, a lot of areas which offer Fibe, your internet is maxed at 50mbps. Because the rest of what may be capable, is segregated off to the TV.
My setup is much like @mozerd, I have the 500mbps plan, and while TVs and multiple devices running, i can still pull 300+ speeds. While not absolutely necessary, with many devices running, its certainly beneficial. (EG: I dont think i could run on the bell 50mbps)
While still not PERFECT, able to edit every 100% aspect of the modem settings (IE: the DNS are locked down, etc), there is much more that you can do with it. Yes loging into the modem directly, a lot is locked out there now (was not originally), but pretty much all that is now able to be changed via the ignite wifi webpage. They actually have MORE in the ways of parental controls, etc, than the modem itself handles.
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