Ok, I've looked and I've listened to umpteen ng's about this and that concerning getting all sorts of channels. Now has come the time to ask a few questions.
At the moment I have a TM6900HD reciever hooked up to a 90cm motorised dish, which I've had for a couple of years. I now need another reciever to add to my collection (another room - upstairs), but cannot make my mind up which one to get. I have narrowed it down to basically two, the spiderbox 9000hd and the Vu+ Duo.
From what I've read, the spiderbox is vfm, but at the same time, a bit on the glitchy side. As in, dropping connection(s) from time to time. Now I may be wrong, but it would seem there isn't much wrong with the box, hardware wise, but more down to how it connects, and to what. Maybe oversubscribed servers.
As for the Vu+ Duo, I'm not that well clued up with this one, as unlike the spiderbox, this one is a "linux" based alternative.
I understand the spiderbox is aimed mainly at people like, those that maybe don't want to get their hands dirty, mucking arround with them, again unlike the Vu+ Duo.
What I want to know is, are these linux based boxes more reliable than the non linux based boxes such as the Spiderbox?, or is it just down to the reliability/unreliability of cs and which servers it hooks up to.
Personally I am not averse to "getting my hands dirty", so how easy are these Vu+Duo's to set up? I take it if I do go down the cs route, its pretty much the same regardless of which box you use?
Also, what other alternatives are there than cs'ing, in order to get similer channels?
At the moment I have a TM6900HD reciever hooked up to a 90cm motorised dish, which I've had for a couple of years. I now need another reciever to add to my collection (another room - upstairs), but cannot make my mind up which one to get. I have narrowed it down to basically two, the spiderbox 9000hd and the Vu+ Duo.
From what I've read, the spiderbox is vfm, but at the same time, a bit on the glitchy side. As in, dropping connection(s) from time to time. Now I may be wrong, but it would seem there isn't much wrong with the box, hardware wise, but more down to how it connects, and to what. Maybe oversubscribed servers.
As for the Vu+ Duo, I'm not that well clued up with this one, as unlike the spiderbox, this one is a "linux" based alternative.
I understand the spiderbox is aimed mainly at people like, those that maybe don't want to get their hands dirty, mucking arround with them, again unlike the Vu+ Duo.
What I want to know is, are these linux based boxes more reliable than the non linux based boxes such as the Spiderbox?, or is it just down to the reliability/unreliability of cs and which servers it hooks up to.
Personally I am not averse to "getting my hands dirty", so how easy are these Vu+Duo's to set up? I take it if I do go down the cs route, its pretty much the same regardless of which box you use?
Also, what other alternatives are there than cs'ing, in order to get similer channels?