A not-so-experienced tester's rvw of nFusion

[bassist]

1st the set-up: I printed Human Network's step-by-step from the sticky section of the nFusion forum here. I pretty much followed it religiously. It really reminded me of installing a printer back in the early 90's with Windows 3.1 or 95.

My machine has a 9-pin COM port so I had no problems.

My box already had 1.30 installed so I went right to 'nFusing' 1.45.2 after downloading 7-Zip from downloads dot com to unpack rar files.
I just followed the prompts on the computer screen. I had less trouble setting this up than I did the iPro & that's really more to my greater experience than to the inherent properties of the 2 STBs.

Word of caution: The gOOd screen on the box only shows for a couple of seconds before the display reverts back to 00 00, so pay attention.

Since I had already set up 91, 110 & 119 and a wireless Ethernet bridge for my iPro, I decided to just connect thru all the same signal paths as my iPro.
A few seconds after turning the STB back on, the dn ch 100 popped up.

I went to the menu & set-up screens, selected 119 set disc to port 1 & scanned. It does take this much longer to scan than the ipro; however, there seems to be less channels missing. I repeated for 110 & 91. (BTW: I have the old school DN legacy lnbs, so I selected 'standard' for that option.)

A pleasant surprise: Even though the nFusion only supplies 400 mA of switching current, it does operate the elcheapo Neo 4x1 Disceq switch at 150+ cable feet.

I set my box to ch140.

At this point I tried establishing a connection b/t the nFusion & the NG 606 wireless bridge. After burning about an hour doing this, I just ran a long cat5 line from my router to the box. It still took 3 or 4 attempts at rebooting the router & the box, but finally a picture appeared & an ip address appeared on that screen. (I have received several suggestions about getting the NG 606 bridge up & running, but I have not had a chance to tackle this job, yet.)

So far: no missing channels, no freezing, no black screens. Also the xxx channels were locked by default, which is great. The remote works smoothly, though it kind of appears cheesy. One thing I really like: you can still pay attention to the programming while you access the menu to customize the set-up or to check sat S&Q. The picture quality is not up to the neo standard, but it is as good as the DN 301 subbed receiver. (The Neo is BETTER than the DN 301 in this regard!)

Pleasant surprises: ease of 'nfusing' e.g. downloading
switching ability

Unpleasant surprise: difficulty in establishing an IP address.

[edwinsao]

cool post brother,another experience for nfusion owners

[surrealone]

Sounds good to me nice review.

[bassist]

I meant to include this:

When I set the Nova directly on top of the shelf, it did get pretty hot, even with the infamous cellophane wrapper removed. Since it's new & I'd like not to void the warranty, I did not want to open the box to remove the card that separates the power supply from the rest of the box. I noticed that there are vents on both the top & bottom of the metal box & there are not any 'feet' supplied to lift the Nova off of the shelf very far. So I just cut 4 small blocks of wood about 1 1/4" (3 cm) tall and placed them to lift the Nova up a little bit.

It runs MUCH cooler now. What the designers had in mind was for the unit to cooled by the convection currents where the warm air exits the top which induces cooler air to enter from the bottom.