How many devices can i use at the same time with tablo?

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Hello, i was wondering how many devices i can use (at the same time) with tablo?


Thanks

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I don’t know but we often watch programs on 3 different Roku 3’s at the same time. They run smooth as silk.

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If your Tablo is wired directly to your router, the Tablo FAQ says it can stream to up to 6 devices.   If your Tablo is using wifi to your router, it is half that.



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That is of course for local streaming of recordings. Live TV is dictated by the number of tuners. As well, remote streaming where the content needs to be transcoded to a lower bitrate counts as using a tuner.

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I only just set up my Tablo today. It’s a gift for my significant other, but I wanted to test it out beforehand. I could get it to work fine on my PC, Roku 2 and iPad mini. However, whenever I tried to put a second channel on a second device it would stop the first device from playing. I could only get 1 device to work at a time unless they were on the same channel. Anyone else ever deal with this? I should be able to view two different live channels on two different devices at the same time correct?


I have a two tuner and don’t have my hard drive figured out yet because the one I bought was not compatible… 
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Search the forums - well known answer, the two devices at once require a HDD to be connected.

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@theuser86 Thank you very much. I apologize that I was not able to find an answer for this on my own. 

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