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Have you tested your Basic for Gigabit?

4K views 16 replies 10 participants last post by  Fofer 
#1 ·
I know the box say one thing and the website says another. So nothing better than someone's real life experience to solve this problem.

If your switch is nice enough to have two separate lights for 10/100 and 1000. Have you connected your Basic to that switch and seen the gigabit light go on?

Or if you have any other reliable way to test it could you please post?

Thanks
 
#5 ·
Yes, verified on my Roamio basic connected to a cisco 48 port managed switch. 100mbit. The TiVo page is wrong and they choose not to fix it. They were told last week about it.
 
#8 ·
Yes, verified on my Roamio basic connected to a cisco 48 port managed switch. 100mbit. The TiVo page is wrong and they choose not to fix it. They were told last week about it.
That's probably illegal to knowingly have a comparing table with the wrong information in it.

Now I don't know anymore. I was about to get rid of my failing S2 and Premiere and go for a basic+mini combo. Now I could probably find a Premiere4+mini for half the price of a RoamioPlus+mini. Is the faster cpu worth that much?

That's another "shoot your own foot" move by Tivo.
 
#9 ·
Why does it matter? If it streams/transfers to other devices without an issue, is there something to be gained that I don't understand by having a potential connection speed that will not be used?
The Plus/Pro reportedly does actually exceed 100 Mbit on transfers, so the port may actually be the limiting factor on the base Roamio (the first time this was ever true for a TiVo).
 
#13 ·
Will I see a degraded picture on the TV connected to the Mini because the Roamio Basic can only transfer at 100 versus a Plus or a Pro that could transfer at 1,000?
No, the transfers don't work that way. The host Tivo does not re-encode the video stream to match available bandwidth. It merely transfers the video exactly as recorded.

If a network were slower than the speed needed to transfer the video stream, you'd experience stops and starts instead of degraded image quality.
 
#15 ·
I'll rephrase.

Both my Mini and Roamio Basic are connected to my gigabit Ethernet network.

Will I see a degraded picture on the TV connected to the Mini because the Roamio Basic can only transfer at 100 versus a Plus or a Pro that could transfer at 1,000?
Streaming is different than coping or transferring a file,. When you are streaming from your Roamio Basic to a Mini the bit rate for the highest quality video you can record is something less than 20 Mp/sec so that is all the band width that will ever be used.
 
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