Blue Barber pole

[AeonFlux]

I know. I read the other thread so don't tell me to go read that one.

First, my donation was coming due. I looked at my MAG254 and it read YOUR STB IS BLOCKED by provider. I kinda ignored it, turned the damned thing off for a couple days while I had renew my donation. So, when I renewed the donation, I marked in the MAC. I have it as a text file. It is absolutely correct. Okay, but I took care of business and now all my donation is good for a year. So now I plugged the MAG254 back in. It does not have blocked message. Instead, I now get blue barber pole forever.

I went back online and put 00 for the last 2 digits of the MAC and saved it. BIG MISTAKE. That had me screwed up for a whole day. No matter what I did, I could not get the correct last 2 digits back in there. It kept returning with :00. I sent the rocket guys an email. Yesterday, I got back in and it finally let me put the correct last 2 digits in. Don't know what happened there but okay. It was changed and was now back to what it should be. I should be good to go. Wrong. Blue barber pole.

My next thing was to check all of my settings. They are all correct. I rechecked the MAC. It is correct.

I looked at my software. I needed to update to the newest version. So I did. It updated perfectly. That did not help.

Needless to say, I have rebooted everything and that did not help.

Okay. Now I am stuck. What to try next?

[Digitaldan]

They are doing something. The quality has been crap all day on us channels but good on others. Some channels not working one minute then fine the next. Today I had the blue barber pole a couple times when I turned the thing on. The news channels are so low resolution they can't be watched at times. So Just tried from time to time and got it to load. I believe they are working on the system and that is why things are so erratic at the moment. JMHO. Have a great day!

[AeonFlux]

Thank you for your help. This has been a real learning experience. I got advice to reboot my whole network from a mod so I did that one more time. Whole family howled a lot at me but I did it. That did not help either. I was stuck. I could see it on my network, but it was like it had no internet. All I got was barber pole. Then...

I FOUND THE PROBLEM! In frustration, I pulled the D-Link USB wireless adapter that had been working just fine until now. I ran a 50ft ethernet cable to it and WALLAH! It started right up! Oh please shoot me! It was the $*%$%^ wireless adapter.

And you are right. Some channels are real crappy and some are real good. Good you told me about the news channels. I thought that my MAG254 was wonky. It is fine. I went to another channel after putzing with my video settings for a half hour. Oh dopey me. My settings were fine.

I post this all to hopefully help others find same issues. My wife wonders why I am a crazy man. Maybe it is crap like this that is making me crazy. Damned USB wireless.