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Hmm... this idea is probably 5-10 years ahead of its time. I vote yes. |
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This is sort-of odd. I have a PCI card for TV and a NIC pulling in DSL. Am I missing something on this idea? |
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The modem I use plugs into the TV cable, not the phone line, like DSL. I want to combine the tuner with the modem, so I can get both video and data with the same device. |
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I don't think I'd use something like this, as I prefer to have my cablemodem on the other side of a router/firewall, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea. [+] |
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I don't get this idea at all. Beer/bear/bare with me will you? |
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At the front of our house the tv cable enters through a little hole in the wall. Inside the signal is split threeways: tv/radio/internet. I have a tv, but if I didn't I could buy a thingy(is videocard the right english word?) to put in my computer and then I could watch tv on my monitor. So is that what your idea is? |
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If you've got a little bit (!) of spare cash then why don't you make one yourself?
Now you say in your idea that you want to use the same device - you don't explicitly say you want the content down the same cable...
(I know strictly speaking this isn't 'the same device' - it is a collection of devices in a single box, but hey no-one else will know!) |
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At most, this saves you a signal splitter. Bah. [-] |
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It also saves having to use two separate devices. |
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Yeah, [waugs], but it is baked, right? |
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Jinbish, - I've accidentally knackered my
M10000 EPIA. I took the fan off as it
had become noisy, and wrecked it
accidentally in removing the blade bit,
and then discovered that the
screwdriver stabbing of the mainboard*
during the process has rendered the
board incapable of putting any video
imagery out to the monitor port (still
works through the RCA to the TV but
my X11 isn't configged for TV) (and
still gives me a syncable frame to the
monitor - just no video image). Oh well.
It's all just sitting there running open-
board on the bench now, ssh-ing in
from this iBook to run the X11 apps in
OS X. |
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* this isn't normal procedure - it's just
that I wasn't looking as I was
unscrewing the fan from the heatsink,
and the screw suddenly flopped over 90
degrees and the screwdriver slid onto
the board - not forcefully either, but
obviously with damaging consequences. |
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Sorry to go on about this, but in the UK this would make it impossible to use a cable modem without a TV licence. |
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Man alive, [Ian's T]. I feel your pain. I've spent the best part of the last 6 months trying to get a EPIA based project to dance to my tune and have been thwarted at every turn. If it's not linux drivers, it's insufficient power supply. If it's not the power supply, it's the TV card that doesn't fit in the brackets without the aid of blue-tac. If it isn't any of them then it's the sudden impact of a sledgehammer accompannied by some kind of beastial rage... |
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Captain Slog, stardate, morning - 2.5
cups of tea. Well, I've been looking
closely all over the area likely to have
sustained damage, and I've just figured
out where the damage actually is. It's a
surface-mount chip-resistor - seems to
have been smashed
open-circuit in the middle of the
resistor. I just verified the theory by
powering up the EPIA board and
shorting across that chip-resistor's
solder contacts with a small screwdriver
(thus shorting it entirely). Briefly, during
correct contact, the familiar image of
the booting up of Linux flashed onto
the monitor (extremely brightly, which
is handy as that monitor has a problem
in that it can't achieve anywhere near a
usable brightness normally). So, that's
the problem found. Now all I have to do
is
fix it. I've never repaired SMDs before
(plus I don't know what the original
value of R74 on a VIA EPIA M10000
board would've been). |
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Stick a 100K across it and see what happens; if it's too bright, try 270K, if it's too dim, try 47K. |
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