EPG is unusably slow on MoCA extenders

[glugglug]

Locally and on the 2 extenders connected by ethernet it is ok.

But the 2 extenders connected through MoCA now have unusably slow guides. It can take > 10s for the guide to respond to a remote button press. Other menus and TV playback appear normal.

Any ideas? Did something happen to the way the EPG is displayed with the data source cutover to make it more latency sensitive?

[garnuts]

I have the same problems after the EPG change with the guide on my 4 xbox 360 extenders using remotes... (wired connection). I have 2 HTPC's and its normal on those whether using a remote, mouse, or keyboard. Obviously the something has changed, and make channel surfing a PITA.

I've posted this issue in a couple other threads.

[glugglug]

To make it even more confusing.... I checked in settings->TV->Guide->About Guide Listings, and my guide is still coming from Zap2It.

Edit: Missed that there is a second page. I am actually getting listings from BOTH Rovi and Zap2It -- Zap2It is Digital Terrestrial (even though it is showing it for the CableCARD tuners), Rovi is Digital Cable (for the same tuners).

[Space]

You may have seen this elsewhere, but just in case others come here for an answer...

This appears to be caused by the static pictures associated with each TV show/movie that are displayed in the guide being much larger and higher resolution on Rovi then the ones that zap2it used, therefore requiring more bandwidth on your network to transfer them. It is unknown if this can/will be fixed (perhaps they already have lower-resolution pictures available and just need to switch over to use them).

[tommoats]

Both my extenders, xbox360 and centon echo are on Moca adapters. The xbox is unusable now, the echo still works well.

[Scallica]

What MoCA adapters is everyone using? I have Netgear MoCA adapters with a Linksys DMA2100 extender. The (Rovi) guide on the extender has no latency.

[mdavej]

I use DirecTV DECA adapters and have no latency issues with my Echoes.

[tommoats]

Channel Master 4 port. Both echo's no issues, both Xbox's guide is unusable.

[garnuts]

Channel Master 4 port. Both echo's no issues, both Xbox's guide is unusable.

Here is the fix I used which really helped the guide issues on my xbox 360 extenders:

Post #26

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... 0&start=20

[glugglug]

1x FIOS Actiontec MI424 rev f (router in bridge mode).
1x Actiontec ECB2200
1x Netgear MCA1001v2

All extenders currently in use are XBOXes. I have an old Linksys DMA2200, very surprised to hear it may be faster than the xbox with the new guide images. Blocking the image servers in the hosts file is working though, and I really don't care about the missing images.

Do the images not show on other extenders even without the hosts entry?