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Message: <blockquote data-quote="longjohn119" data-source="post: 672501" data-attributes="member: 107900">That particular device is very picky about a couple of things. For one you need a short (4"-6") high quality USB cord. Also you need to preferably make it's the only device on that hub or at the very least make sure anything else on that hub is very low power. I also go over all the USB cords/connectors with DeOxIt once a year. It can also be picky about drivers especially on Vista as can the 801e (It's completely different hardware from the 800e and runs cooler plus has QAM) I haven't used it with XP though since shortly after Vista came out so I really can't help you with which drivers work best in XP. I'm currently struggling my way though setting up Media Portal using a 800e and 801e dual setup but the 800e is for HDTV from an antenna so I'm only using the digital tuner but it's stable and practically set itself up (I already had the best Vista drivers for it and had it working in Media Center) The 801e is for Clear QAM over cable, my extended basic is both analog and also SD Clear QAM (And a few local OTA HDTV stations in Clear QAM) so I get 90 some channels of SD so I'm not using the analog tuner on that one either. I used to use the analog section for cable with Beyond TV but it looked like crap on my 24" widescreen but passable on a 15" laptop which is what I streamed to. Problem was Beyond TV is never going to support the 801e's QAM tuner so when I did a fresh install of Vista a couple of months ago I hacked in the TV Pack 2008 along with the Service Packs and with a little work got the tuning tables edited and mapped so they'd work in Media Center. Problem there is Media Center is crippled for streaming live TV and that's probably just Microsoft kissing DRM/Tivo butt again because I can see no reason it shouldn't be quite easily possible.Setting up the 801e for Clear QAM has been an adventure and it's similar to the manual way you do it in Vista Media Center but someone wrote a little helper program to simplify that and there is none for Media Portal and QAM related setup information is pretty thin. Luckily I picked up enough setting it up for Vista to make it work but it was time consuming manually going through 311 QAM channels, deleting the 200+ that are scrambled and mapping the 99 Clear QAM channels. Now it's finding a decent source for the Program Guide and making sure it's synced up to the right QAM channels and getting it to stream to my laptops and other computers. Then automating everything and set it up for recording 'my shows'.It takes a little extra work to set up Media Portal but it's because it's not 'dumbed down' or crippled  that makes it  the best of both world's for me. It streams like Beyond TV and handles Clear QAM and multiplel USB tuners like Media Center. I'm glad I gave it a shot even though neither of my devices are listed as officially supported. If I can get all the little kinks worked out and make it do what I need it to do then I'll definitely through some 'development bucks' their way.</blockquote>

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