EDW said:
I bought one a week ago and it's been an absolute nightmare.
I got the MMC running with various images and then it decided not to mount the MMC and so I did the MMC format thing again but failed. You need a prog. called iBoot and it is rubbish. It gives error messages in french.
So I am running UR 09 beta 2 from the flash have followed the instructions on Alsat to add the emu (Mgcam?) and Satan Keybundle but it still didn't clear Prem. Perhaps I need to add something else but can't be bothered for now. Haven't tried to clear TPS or anything else, don't dare move the dish.
Diseq 1.2 motor, it kept going to the east for no reason and when you use the move dish button it would go miles rather than something sensible like one a two degrees at a time so you have to use fine move button which moves about 1/10 of a degree so it takes ages and when you find at the right position it sometimes will not show a signal in the stength bar so you keep moving the dish thinking you are not there yet, it drives you abso. mental to keep going up the ladder to look at the motor.
Dreambox edit (a fine prog.) you send a chanell list to it and it says it has recd. it but when you reboot it is not there.
Network problems - fixed the ip address in the box and then reserved that on my netgear router, sometimes it finds it sometimes it doesn,t. Need to have DCHP box not ticked but still very iffy.
Remote control is nice but if you move around the screen too much it freezes.
£109 down the drain for now. Perhaps will have another go in three months. Shame cos the picture quality is excellent on RGB and tuner v. sensitive.
Luckily my backup patched box is working fine or I would have gone mental but I need a box that will work with DigiAlb card which my box won't do so perhaps use TM1900 for DigiAlb only for now and leave it until the bugs have been ironed out.
I've had my 9100 for about 4 weeks and my experiences appear to be almost the opposite of yours. Running UR009, in the flash, along with UR009B2 and Juliet 009 on mmc thru iboot. I've never had error messages from it, just as well, I can't understand french.
Mgcam and satans auto key downloader work fine and all the usual Prem. Digi+, Kaka, T*S all clear with the minimum of fuss.
Usals performs fine, the only glitch I get here is - the box will sometimes ask me to wait while it moves to a satellite I'm already on after changing channel.
I used DreamSet to transfer and edit my channel list (I used captains btw).
Networked a dream, my network is completly fixed ip so the 9100 slotted nicely into it with the next available address. I stream both from 9100 to pc and pc to 9100, the latter allows me to select and watch .avi films stored on my pc (up in the attic) on the tv 2 floors down via 9100.
The darn thing will even give me a 5 day weather forcast.
My 9100 is never off and in constant use aswell.
I'm afraid my TM1500 won't be coming out of hiding anytime soon..