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I didn't go with the Fusion 5 for a couple of reasons.

1. Konfoo said his favorite card was Vbox.
2. I mistakenly thought that the Vbox had a 5th Generation LG Tuner, which is not the case...as evidenced by this excerpt taken from : http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=vbox_1

"...On board there is a Thompson tuner along with a SkyTune Sky951 chip. I was unable to unearth any information on these items which seemed really odd. I mean usually a search on the net returns a few results but all I could find were model # listings by several vendors in Asia. I did find out from VBox that the chipset used on this card is a proprietary one. VBox had acquired the Satellite Express and DTV product lines of BroadLogic Network Technologies. The acquisition also granted VBox access to BroadLogic's BIC2000 and BIC951 silicon technologies (BroadLogic acquired the BIC951 from SkyTune) So, there reason I couldn't find much information on the SKY951 (names changed to BIC951 by BroadLogic) is that this silicon is used by VBox in its products and is not being sold as a standard part..."

So. I may have made a mistake. But what I will do is try out the Vbox card. If it works well for me, fine. If I still have multipathing problems, I will likely get the Fusion 5 (and sell the A180 and Vbox to recoup most of my monies). For those of you eagerly awaiting the Vbox results, I should have the card installed late next week (I'll be out of town for the first part of the week)

<blockquote data-quote="Commodore 64" data-source="post: 24366" data-attributes="member: 13303">I didn't go with the Fusion 5 for a couple of reasons.1. Konfoo said his favorite card was Vbox.2. I mistakenly thought that the Vbox had a 5th Generation LG Tuner, which is not the case...as evidenced by this excerpt taken from : <a href="http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=vbox_1" target="_blank">http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=vbox_1</a>&quot;...On board there is a Thompson tuner along with a SkyTune Sky951 chip. I was unable to unearth any information on these items which seemed really odd. I mean usually a search on the net returns a few results but all I could find were model # listings by several vendors in Asia. I did find out from VBox that the chipset used on this card is a proprietary one. VBox had acquired the Satellite Express and DTV product lines of BroadLogic Network Technologies. The acquisition also granted VBox access to BroadLogic's BIC2000 and BIC951 silicon technologies (BroadLogic acquired the BIC951 from SkyTune) So, there reason I couldn't find much information on the SKY951 (names changed to BIC951 by BroadLogic) is that this silicon is used by VBox in its products and is not being sold as a standard part...&quot;So.&nbsp; I may have made a mistake.&nbsp; But what I will do is try out the Vbox card. If it works well for me, fine. If I still have multipathing problems, I will likely get the Fusion 5 (and sell the A180 and Vbox to recoup most of my monies).&nbsp; For those of you eagerly awaiting the Vbox results, I should have the card installed late next week (I'll be out of town for the first part of the week)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Commodore 64, post: 24366, member: 13303"] I didn't go with the Fusion 5 for a couple of reasons. 1. Konfoo said his favorite card was Vbox. 2. I mistakenly thought that the Vbox had a 5th Generation LG Tuner, which is not the case...as evidenced by this excerpt taken from : [url]http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=vbox_1[/url] "...On board there is a Thompson tuner along with a SkyTune Sky951 chip. I was unable to unearth any information on these items which seemed really odd. I mean usually a search on the net returns a few results but all I could find were model # listings by several vendors in Asia. I did find out from VBox that the chipset used on this card is a proprietary one. VBox had acquired the Satellite Express and DTV product lines of BroadLogic Network Technologies. The acquisition also granted VBox access to BroadLogic's BIC2000 and BIC951 silicon technologies (BroadLogic acquired the BIC951 from SkyTune) So, there reason I couldn't find much information on the SKY951 (names changed to BIC951 by BroadLogic) is that this silicon is used by VBox in its products and is not being sold as a standard part..." So. I may have made a mistake. But what I will do is try out the Vbox card. If it works well for me, fine. If I still have multipathing problems, I will likely get the Fusion 5 (and sell the A180 and Vbox to recoup most of my monies). For those of you eagerly awaiting the Vbox results, I should have the card installed late next week (I'll be out of town for the first part of the week) [/QUOTE]