Google issued a mandatory update for my phone that crippled its battery. In return, I got a very good deal on a new Google phone. They didn’t even want the old phone in trade.
On the front porch yesterday morning there was a big box from Verizon, filled with equipment — a new router, DVR and STB. They don’t want the old gear returned.
I have 30 days to activate the new DVR before the old one is shut down. It isn’t clear that the router needed to be replaced, but I did it anyway. Compared to the old router, it seems to have better 5 GHz coverage and it adds Wi-Fi 6 support.
Protocol: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) Security type: WPA2-Personal Manufacturer: Intel Corporation Description: Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz Driver version: 23.70.2.3 Network band: 5 GHz Network channel: 52 Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 432/432 (Mbps) IPv4 address: 192.168.1.183 IPv4 DNS servers: 192.168.1.1 (Unencrypted) Physical address (MAC): E4-0D-36-EA-20-63
Losing the old DVR will be painful. It has a nice collection of movies in HD from TCM. Almost all of them are on an external 1 TB HDD I added a decade ago. It’s connected with a Firewire interface, but the drive also has a USB port, so it can be repurposed. I’d be amazed if its file system is readable on a PC.
I’ll look into disposing the old video equipment. I’m keeping the old router and its extender, as there’s some network experimentation I want to try.
So much technology that’s been working perfectly, but is now considered junk, and I’m being forced to retire it. *SIGH* This is why I am so pleased with Lyrion, the successor to Logitech Media Server. I was close to giving up on my Squeezebox Radios and the Touch streamer, but now Lyrion has brought the music network back to life beautifully.