switching to horizon boxes

ohnonotgmail

I currently have 2 cisco dvr boxes that i have since the UPC days. I have a separate cisco modem for the broad band. I was thinking of moving to horizon boxes instead. I have a couple of questions:

1. Am i mad to consider this? I know that initially the horizon boxes were terrible. have they improved sufficiently to be usable?

2. can i keep my separate modem? I've read that the horizon box does the broadband as well but i would rather keep the modem i have as i have it hooked into a separate wireless router.

3. Is there anything in the near future that i should hold on for instead?

68 lost souls

They still offer a separate router depending on your package, I don’t think the horizon box is capable of the max speed that they offer so we have a “super hub” as they call it.

I am wondering if they’re TiVo box will be brought to Ireland that is capable of 4K?

ohnonotgmail

I'm still on the old 120MB broadband package but i would switch to the 240 or 360 if i was moving to horizon.

0ph0rce0

Pretty sure you can't have two horizon boxes. Just the one. So you'll end up having to keep one of the cisco boxes.

I still have a cisco box here and to be honest after the Horizon box issues we had we'd never go back.

Cisco HD has been the best box by far for speed and stability throughout the UPC /Virgin days.

Someone mentioned about the V6 box coming but i highly doubt it since the CEO said they were sticking with horizon, also didn't they mention 4K can be done on this box with a software update.Could be wrong on that on though.

Vic_08

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I currently have 2 cisco dvr boxes that i have since the UPC days. I have a separate cisco modem for the broad band. I was thinking of moving to horizon boxes instead. I have a couple of questions:

1. Am i mad to consider this? I know that initially the horizon boxes were terrible. have they improved sufficiently to be usable?

2. can i keep my separate modem? I've read that the horizon box does the broadband as well but i would rather keep the modem i have as i have it hooked into a separate wireless router.

3. Is there anything in the near future that i should hold on for instead?

To be fair the horror box (mine at least) has been relatively stable recently, no recording f-ups for a long time and just a very occasional need to re-boot.

The UI is still horrible and the lag on button presses is just awful. In comparison to Sky or even cheap FTA boxes it is a very frustrating yoke to use, I can't compare to the Cisco boxes a I never had one, I moved from the crap SD box to the crap Horror box.

They try to get you to use the all-in-one solution but in my case after the terrible overseas CS team were unable to understand/deal with the request I went through the Irish retention customer service team via the talk to forum on boards and got a separate modem with no extra charge.

ohnonotgmail

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Pretty sure you can't have two horizon boxes. Just the one. So you'll end up having to keep one of the cisco boxes.

I still have a cisco box here and to be honest after the Horizon box issues we had we'd never go back.

Cisco HD has been the best box by far for speed and stability throughout the UPC /Virgin days.

Someone mentioned about the V6 box coming but i highly doubt it since the CEO said they were sticking with horizon, also didn't they mention 4K can be done on this box with a software update.Could be wrong on that on though.

so how does that work for new multi-room customers? do they still have a stack of the cisco boxes somewhere?

0ph0rce0

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

so how does that work for new multi-room customers? do they still have a stack of the cisco boxes somewhere?

Not sure what boxes they are using but it is the old crap. read on here recently they sent out a box so old that it had no hdmi only scart. The guy sent it back as his TV has no scart input.

corroonb

The Horizon box is terrible. We're on our second one and we have constant issues with recordings and the guide.

ohnonotgmail

Looks like i am sticking with what i have. I'm just sick of replacing faulty remotes for the cisco box.