Damn, had you asked 4 months ago I could have given you cold hard facts. I was very deep in the game. Right back to coding my own blockers on rom cards. Now those days were glorious. Months without having to do anything to stay up.
But when FTA IKS came in because dish changed to N3 it was nothing but trouble to stay up. Basically each brand will run servers overseas and your box connects to the servers over the internet. Dish will change its keys to scramble signal every few minutes and your box will get these keys from server hooked up to a bunch of boxes that are actually subscribed to the service and shares that info with yours and everyone elses box. Lots of links in the chain can cause problems. Your internet connection, the servers, the subbed boxes on the servers, etc.
But they could never seem to keep it very stable. IKS was never anywhere near as good as standalone rom bins. [Coding on a smartcard in your receiver. No internet involved]
For over a year it was up and down. Lots of channels, next day few channels. Some days freezing was so bad unwatchable. Other then fanboys who for some stupid reason get behind whatever brand of box they have, nobody was happy with the IKS results. Nothing sucks more then to have it freeze or go down in the middle of a movie or sports event.
And the football and other sports packages were never available with IKS anyway. It was mostly just movie channels and the odd secondary network like A&E for example. No broadcast stations like Fox, NBC, etc
I'm curious on anything new in the scene so I will make a couple contacts and see if anything positive has happened and let you know.
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