We had bought a new TiVo unit sometime last year. It's a Hughes DirecTV unit, so it has two tuners in it (a big plus). Well, getting both tuners online forced us to get a powered multiswitch for all of our cabling. I cheaped-out, got something cheap off eBay, and have been regretting it every day since. My crystal clear, stable signal now gets interrupted at least once an hour for no reason, or now gets affected if we turn off the lights in the bathrooms. This just sucked. Then the signal to the TiVo unit just would go tell hell in a handbasket, completely losing the signal about every 12 seconds for a hour at a time, making it impossible to record things.
I learned my lesson, and went back to eBay to find the switch that I wanted. I went there first because I didn't want to spent the $300 list price for the dam thing. Well, we got one for a fifth of the price and I installed it and have been in DirecTV heaven ever since.
Can't go wrong using the right equipment.
2007- Ummmmm.... a bit too mundane...
2006- White Sox 3 - Royals 2
2005- Wolves 2 - Mighty Ducks 1 - West Division Final Game 2
- Sox Yard Sale
2003- The wall?
2002- Wolves on cable
- Walking and walking and walking