Spiderbox Owners Chat!

[thecrazybandit]

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Thats a shame the Spiderbox HD9000 will normally come back when using the recovery tool its the HD9900 that had the problems that would not work good luck with Skybox f5

[Mobley3]

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Forget about trying it on Vista, but you may need to try it a few times before it will work,
did you leave it for a while to load? sometimes it takes a while before you will notice any sign of the file loading.

Regards Mobley3

[pan1300]

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hi bam27beer

I agree with Mobley3: good chance it won't work on vista - I had more luck before with XP, and even before that with Win98 - don't know if you still have one of those (or a friend?) - as also said: once it didn't work at all ...

[benchsirius]

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I've had my 9000HD and it works perfectly except that it occasionally locks up when using clines. Haven't bothered updating it for 12months (ie March 2012 patch) , is it worth doing the latest patch as that is for the iks service which I don't use, are there other advantages?

[sataday]

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I don't use iks either, but I did load that patch. I don't know whether it is an inprovement on the March 2012 patch other than having VAS removed, but it is the latest.

[scooterman]

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Do you guys think that there will be any more support for the spiderbox,i see most retailers have stopped selling them ,dropped like a hot potato ,but i suppose we will get a few more years out of them.

[benchsirius]

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I can't see there being much more support to be honest , it is like when technomate was dropped in favour of sb, now it is onto another box and so on.

[thecrazybandit]

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The support has gone now because the spiderbox is no longer made but they say a new spiderbox is in the pipe line time will tell if this is true or not

[benchsirius]

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They still sell for a good price on fleabay but , to be honest I can't see a new one coming out and being successful unless it has "bonus channels".

[Mobley3]

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I've had my 9000HD and it works perfectly except that it occasionally locks up when using clines. Haven't bothered updating it for 12months (ie March 2012 patch) , is it worth doing the latest patch as that is for the iks service which I don't use, are there other advantages?

No advantage once you have the March patch and it might in fact give you problems if you load the IKS one if you are not using the service as it can give intermittent freezes when you are not connected.

Regards Mobley3

[digicon]

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I doubt you will see another spiderbox in any form (Darkman) dropped all support after a few months for his 800HD box and since the failure of charging for the IKSpatch which should have been free but again greed got in the way.

There are other receivers with a free gift patch that have been out before the spiderbox even became popular and are still going strong now when the spiderbox has vanished

[cannydo]

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If thats true thecrazybandit I for one will never buy one it was the worst forum I ever joined. If they couldn't solve your problem your problem did not exist. The Spiderbox was only good for the free gift if it lasted a year. See how they sold a box one week then cut the gift off the next told you lies then more lies about the server.
Basically it was a cash driven project I have a 7000HD great box by the way but after sales is ***te

[sataday]

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No advantage once you have the March patch and it might in fact give you problems if you load the IKS one if you are not using the service as it can give intermittent freezes when you are not connected.

Regards Mobley3

As I said, I have loaded the iks patch but I do have it tuned off.
Do you think I would be better of going back to the March 2012 patch?

[Mobley3]

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As I said, I have loaded the iks patch but I do have it tuned off.
Do you think I would be better of going back to the March 2012 patch?

When I had the IKS patch loaded without being connected to the service I suffered from constant glitches every couple of minutes,This happened even with lines switched off, I think it was because the system was trying to connect but could not because there was no valid key. This stopped when I went back to the March patch so maybe worth a try.

Regards Mobley3

[benchsirius]

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Have to say in defence of Spiderbox and gift, the channels lasted a long time for most and still have a solid enough box capable of serving 10 other boxes? in your own home if you want.