11-24-2002, 07:31 AM
I dunno, I've actually never had a problem with the iO menus. There are very few times that the menu has ANY pause - the first time accessing the menu after a reset, and just before midnight, when you move the cursor over past midnight and it pauses for a few seconds for "switching dates". Changing channels usually has no delay, or at its very worst, no more delay than a satellite dish would have. OnDemand is pretty slow, and has been pretty flaky in my area lately, but when it works it's the fuckin bomb.
And of course, Optimum Online is the BEST. How the fuck did you guys get it for 20 bucks a month, was that some sort of promotion? I'm paying 35, but I'd love to get it knocked down to 20.
As for Comcast - Optimum Online is better, definitely a noticeable speed difference (I had Comcast up until I moved in June).... that speed change has got to be attributed to the fact that OOL has no upload cap, while Comcast caps their upload speed at about 128kbps.
While I'm here, might as well contribute a lil trick.... this probably only works for the kind of box I have (the black Scientific Atlanta one, I know there's also some silver one)... hold the pause button on your remote until a light on the box starts blinking (I believe that's the mail light).... then hit page up. This puts you into all sorts of nifty screens where you can see the box's configuration. You probably saw the cable guy do this during your install, so see if your box obtained an IP address. My guy had to go into this screen quite a few times (box wasn't grabbing an IP - turned out something was down on their end - TV was fine but no OnDemand).... so I kept my eyes glued to the buttons he was pressing after he went in 2 or 3 times. :-D The screens don't really do anything for you, but it's just a nifty thing to see.
Also if you press page down, odd numbers appear on the box's display. I haven't been adventurous enough to explore what they do, for fear of fucking up my box.
And of course, Optimum Online is the BEST. How the fuck did you guys get it for 20 bucks a month, was that some sort of promotion? I'm paying 35, but I'd love to get it knocked down to 20.
As for Comcast - Optimum Online is better, definitely a noticeable speed difference (I had Comcast up until I moved in June).... that speed change has got to be attributed to the fact that OOL has no upload cap, while Comcast caps their upload speed at about 128kbps.
While I'm here, might as well contribute a lil trick.... this probably only works for the kind of box I have (the black Scientific Atlanta one, I know there's also some silver one)... hold the pause button on your remote until a light on the box starts blinking (I believe that's the mail light).... then hit page up. This puts you into all sorts of nifty screens where you can see the box's configuration. You probably saw the cable guy do this during your install, so see if your box obtained an IP address. My guy had to go into this screen quite a few times (box wasn't grabbing an IP - turned out something was down on their end - TV was fine but no OnDemand).... so I kept my eyes glued to the buttons he was pressing after he went in 2 or 3 times. :-D The screens don't really do anything for you, but it's just a nifty thing to see.
Also if you press page down, odd numbers appear on the box's display. I haven't been adventurous enough to explore what they do, for fear of fucking up my box.
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