Dells that is some of the best and realistic advice I've heard so far. I pretty much have gotten past most errors on any device through a method of patience/trial and error. After following others advice and tutorials it was clear that what works for some won't work for others. After enabling epg ninja and allowing it to configure the pvr clients I began to notice the serial and device Ids were being populated for me. This method produced no errors whatsoever and it didn't matter what MAC address scheme I used. Now that I have a better understanding of what's required I now get to deal with the delemias brought up in your post about freezing and non working channels. The service has lots of moving parts that can create issues such as the recent epg failures. Now that my configuration woes have been concurred the server seems to be down. Just think what others can get for just 22 cents per day lol