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Here's the front of one of my new TV boxes Here's the back. Notice the RJ45 input Here's my new network in the basement. The thin cable going into the ONT at the bottom is the fiber and the thicker cable right next to it is the power coming from the UPS. The top most port on the ONT is the Internet VLAN and the second port is the TV VLAN. You can see that the installer plugged a secondary switch into the TV port, then ran two cables from that switch and punched it into the patch panel. From there, the two TV ports run directly to the set-top boxes. The extra switch is only fast Ethernet, so that means all devices share a 100mb connection to the ONT. The features that I get are I can go back and watch TV shows up to 24 hours old(yes, I can FF through commercials), so basic DVR for select channels. I get 14 basic channels, half of them are 1080p. I also get a bunch of free on-demand, which has recent popular TV series and some movies, many on 1080p. All of this for $15/month. For an extra $16/month, I can get full on DVR that allows recording of two of any channels at a time, has an easy interface to track series, even if the series is on different channels. I can even instruct it to ignore episodes that have already been recorded, even if recorded on different channels. Up to 250 hours of storage and anything recorded has no time limit, you can theoretically keep something for years. It is not locally stored, but back at the CO. There is even an android app to manage the DVR over the Internet. Since I only have the basic TV package, I don't think I will be getting the full featured DVR, but I do get a free 3 month trial. When playing around, I noticed that even though I was not using DVR on a given channel and that the channel technically was not one of those "go back 24 hours" channels, if a show was in progress, I could actually jump to the beginning of the show. So auto DVR on most channels, allowing me to watch the beginning of the current show. Ohh, that $15/month covers up to 5 of these boxes. I currently only have two.

Yeah, I am gearing up. No ETA and I'm not doing the next updates incrementally. There will be a few things that will be updated and released as soon as they're available but for the most part my next version will hit all at once. Visitors will have the choice to keep using Version 13 if they're more comfortable with that. Seems that I have a segment of visitors that really don't like major changes. Actually, Pgoodwin1 if my memory serves me correctly you first started emailing me because you weren't a fan going from v12 to v13. ... but I'd bet money that you see the value in v13 now and use it exclusively. Same may happen going to the next version if you're reluctant to change. I've realized over the years that I can't make 100% of people happy... but I still try. My aim in the next release is to make it as easy as possible for the common person (non-computer-geek) to use and fully understand what this site does. When I first started building the TMN speed test I built it for myself and really didn't care if other people understood it. I usually assume that you have a certain level of computer and bandwidth knowledge but I really want the other 95% to get it. I'll also be adding advanced features but hopefully in a way that won't overwhelm people... it will only be overwhelming if you want it to be. I have my work cut out for my on all fronts. But once the fire is lit... like mudmanc4 said... the work is done before I realize that I did anything. Hopefully you'll all like the end result.