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Re: How will this affect Tivo cable card users?
Best case: the name of the channel (e.g., WRCDT) doesn't change. In this case TiVo should process it as a channel reassignment. They'll be a big message on your TiVo's identifying all the reassignments. All your One Passes will continue to work. All recordings happen as scheduled. Not so good case: the name of the channel (e.g., WRCDT) does change (e.g., to WRC) . In this case TiVo should process it as a channel delete and add. They'll be a big message on your TiVo's identifying all the deletes and adds. All your One Passes will need to be updated to reference the new channel name. Some recordings missed if you don't edit the One Pass in time. Worst case: some channel names change, others don't. Changes happen on different days with new names added on a different day than the old names are deleted. Some recordings missed. Generally a big mess that you'll have to sort out manually.6Views0likes1CommentRe: Cox Email asking for password while Hotmail and Gmail don't in Outlook
I've seen the same thing. Seems to be a problem with the Cox servers (and not your password as KevinM2 suggests). Sometimes closing/reopening Outlook helps. As you said, it usually fixes itself. It's been a problem for many years.1View0likes0CommentsRe: How to migrate Outlook (XP) from computer to webmail?
FWIW, even if you can move email to Cox's web server, you might not want to. There is a limit on the amount of email that Cox will store for you. If your brother has a lot of email, he might not be able to store all of it on Cox's servers. Another reason to store email locally is to for continued access. If your brother ever leaves Cox, Cox will delete his email. Just something to consider.0Views0likes0CommentsRe: Unable to send Outlook email -Server Password
FWIW, I occasionally have the same thing happen. Outlook will work fine for weeks, then start asking for username/password. Sometimes exiting Outlook and reopening it will clear the problem. More often I just wait and the problem goes away on it's own. I suspect some kind of handshake issue between Outlook and the Cox mail servers. If Outlook was working, it is probably not a problem with Outlook's settings.1View0likes0CommentsRe: Datacap is not Data, but Packets!
An Internet packet can vary in size. The max size depends on a variety of factors, but is typically around 1,500 bytes. I think d3x0r is suggesting that the Cox data meter is assuming every packet is the max size. Since a lot of Internet packets are quite small (less than 100 bytes), this round up would cause the data meter to greatly overstate the usage. To support this suggestion, d3x0r divided the reported (by Cox) usage (40 GB) by the reported (by his router) number of packets sent/received (27,027,432) to come up with an average packet size of 1479. That's in the range of typical packet size maximums. FWIW, 23,997,300,432 bytes is 22.35GB. In most computer contexts, 1K is 1024 (not 1000) and 1G is 1,073,741,824. Confusing, but that's the way it's done. Using that same correction, the 40GB that the data meter reports is (about) 42,949,672,960 bytes which raises the average packet size to (about) 1,589 bytes. At least, this is how I interpreted d3x0r's posts.0Views0likes0CommentsRe: Connect Internet Other Room
How is your computer connected? If wirelessly (Wi-Fi), you might not have to do anything other than move the computer. If wired, it might be easier to just run a long Ethernet cable to the LR. Ugly, but if the remodel will keep you out of your office for only a few days, expedient. Just a suggestion.1View0likes0Comments