SO... this started out as me trying to get faster internet. We have Time Warner and we've had ~15mbps down/1 up for a while and it was impacting my wife who is on a different floor from the router and uses the internet pretty heavily for her job.
So last week I went online and decided to upgrade. The options were shitty but I decided to go $10/month more and jump to a blazing speed of 20 down and 2 up (the up impacts her more than the down). I figured we'd try that and see if we need to go farther (because I'm cheap AF).
Long story short, I had to call them because my account had codes that were so fucking old that they didn't even work in their systems to upgrade online. They moved me to a 'Spectrum' plan which is what TWC is now. The new plan doesn't support the old cable card/tuning adapter setup that was required for my Tivo so I had to switch to a Spectrum DVR. The new plan, however comes with a free combo modem/router AND 60mbps down/5 up. The new DVR supports 6 simultaneous recordings (vs. 2 with my Tivo) and has about double the space. And... and... I'm only paying $13 more than I was previously.
So overall I'm pretty happy, but I am sad to say goodbye to the Tivo. A few things I'll miss:
1) The Tivo remote is by far the most comfortable and easy to use remote I've ever had - the new one from Spectrum is bulky and a lot of the buttons are placed inconveniently.
2) The interface is pretty meh on the new DVR. Super basic and managing recordings is mildly annoying.
3) Wishlists - not sure how to tell the new DVR to record any new Cavs/Steelers games. With the Tivo, wishlists just handled that.
There are other minor things but I'll leave it at that. Just thought I'd share that it's worth poking the bear if you're still struggling with shitty internet.