I have had table 4th Gen for about 1.5 years. I only care about 4-5 channel. And 2 of them were mediocre at best. I final did advice of research and adjusted my antenna several times but nothing improved. After watching hours of antenna reviews i decided on a bigger me antenna. After i installed it made no difference maybe worse. I also tried turning off tablo antenna amplifier. I have starlink Internet running Google Wi-Fi. I have no issues with Wi-Fi and it seems to work great. I decided to run coaxial direct from antenna to tv and use tv tuner for channel scan. Well it works great. This confirms that the issue is the tablo. Is there a solution to improve this. If not are there other brands that are better?
A few questions.
If you are close enough to broadcast center to receive on TV using an antenna, why arenāt you using a wired or fiber internet provider?
On another subject; what do you mean by Google wifi?
Finally, is your Tablo wired to your router? If not, you should try that.
Just asking questions to try to get your setup sorted out. You seem to have enough antenna to get good reception. Now we just need to get the Tablo up to speed.
Iām in rural area, dsl is the best hard line option i have available no fiber. My towers are 28-46 miles away. I use Google Wi-Fi hubs throughout the house for Wi-Fi. Tablo wired direct to router.
We have several streaming subscriptions and they all work fine. My son uses Xbox live gaming with no issues. Iām not an expert but i assume the Wi-Fi is not the issue for these reasons.
So, finally, what streaming device are you using to support the Tablo app?
Can the streaming device be wired to router?
Hisense with Google tv. No not able to hook direct to router.
Well reached out to support today and got the same run around i have come to except from tablo. Even though i proved the issue was not reception. So if anybody reads this beware and save your money. I bought and hd homerun flex 4k today. Time will tell if it is better but Iām done with Tablo.
I doubt youāll be happy with it.
I just returned one last week.
Guide doesnāt show ānewā shows, and I was never able to record anything.
After my tablo experience i am not expecting much but i have read that it decodes channels better. Iām certainly not an expert but i donāt dvr at all. So if it will pick up the 4 channel i watch Iām good. Unfortunately tablo couldnāt even do that.
If you donāt DVR at all, and since you mentioned you reception was good when you went direct to your TV, why not just have that as the solution and not spend money on anything else?
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My house is not wired with coaxial cable, for testing i ran a coaxial cable from antenna through door across livingroom to tvš. When building this house i always planned a gateway antenna solution for my locals on several tvs. Might be willing to hard wire them someday but not until the atsc 1.0 channels are unavailable and we find out if free TV is still going to be free. I suspect the days of free ota will go away.
Power to you if you want to spend that money to get a solution that doesnāt require running coaxial cable to the TV but seems like quite the investment for a solution when you donāt really use the DVR functionality of the products.
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Well just got hdhr flex 4k installed. So far so good. Time will tell but i recommend checking it out.
My understanding is that HDHomeRun requires an Ethernet cable connection. Thatās a stopper for many.
I understand your issue. The problem is Tablo used a cheap coax connector. Mine worked fine at the start (after finding a good antenna location) but if you need to disconnect and reconnect the coax a few times the connector is crap. Try reclocking the cable few times and you will see major changes in the channel scan results with no other change. Tablo is a great idea handicapped by poor execution!
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