Tablo 4th Gen 2-Tuner Over-The-Air (OTA) DVR + 35-Mile Indoor TV Antenna - Watch, Pause & Record Live TV, News, Sports & Movies Throughout Your Home Over Wi-Fi - 50+ Hrs Recording - No Subscriptions

My cable tv streaming bill (DirecTV Stream) was reaching $90 plus all the major streaming apps, my “tv” bill was reaching close $140 a month.So my wife wanted locals and dvr function. Got the Tablo box and antenna package. Looked online that our locals antennas were 14 miles away. So the 30 mile antenna was fine.I do have a network rack in home office. Hardwired it into the core switch (I’m a network it person). Antenna on the wall.I have enterprise grade access points in my home. Streaming to my phones and roku devices work fine. I know I have good signal within my home. That’s the key!I was worried about the 2 tuner versus the 4 turner hd home run. I gave the Tablo a try since the home run had a $35 yearly fee for the dvr/guide service.Come to find out 2 tuners was enough. We dvr all our shows and watch them later. My wife likes to watch the local news live. The kids stick to the streaming apps and skip over the Tablo. 2 turners was enough.Also the 128GB internal hard drives has stored up to almost 3 weeks of shows and streaming channel recording before it auto deleted. You can even record from the free streaming channels. Which is awesome!This is a huge hit for us. Wish we converted over years ago!Update:My son is in college and wanted to watch some of the recordings. I configured a VPN back to our home. Once he connects to the VPN that is an app on his TV. Tablo APP picks right up. He can stream and watch tv from home. So far so good!Also - Ive read about buffering and connection problems. Taking it from me, A Networking IT professional. Make sure you have good wifi signal in your home. Fire up Acrylic Home Wireless Analyzer on your laptop and confirm you have good signal. I've noticed you have to have anything lower than -65 for Tablo to be stable across the wireless. Also, you need to an Access Point / Wireless router (I prefer Access Points over a Residential Home WiFi router) that has some horsepower behind to sustain the load. I have not had any buffering what so ever, but my wired and wireless network is solid though.Place your antenna is a good spot too. That is a key.

Loved the idea of a wireless antenna solution, where I could keep the antenna up high on the second floor for better reception, and transmit via wi-fi to my Roku stick at my TV. Other peripherals that connect with my wi-fi, like security cameras have always worked seamlessly and their companion apps easy and reliable. Not so with Tablo. From the start, we simply could not gain integration with our wi-fi. Setup steps would not allow us to proceed, requiring contacting Tablo’s service center.After repeating our prior steps multiple times, we finally got it to initially work, doing nothing different, btw. Now, our problems transferred to the operability with the Roku stick and use with our TV. Of all the apps we use, streaming services and otherwise, Table is the ONLY one that takes forever to load on startup, and is a 50/50 shot if it will work at all. There’s multiple ‘select’ steps just to watch a channel. IF you get to the channel guide, and that is a big if as it boots forever, you scroll to an available channel. You’d think selecting ‘channel 7’ would result in it playing. No. You’re slow played to another screen, with options to watch live or later as DVR. How about we just skip that part, and watch live. Many moments of circling symbol hesitation between initial turning the TV on and having your over the air channel broadcast. If it works at all, that is. This is not a reception issue, btw, it is a problem with the app, the wifi connectivity between it and its peripheral and the peripheral hardware itself. Google this and you’ll find multiple complaints just like it across forums, reddit and the like. Oh, and there’s a setting unavailable from the usual settings page, something to do with stereo vs surround sound.. it won’t work with anything other than stereo, and our Tablo was totally useless until one day, randomly, the message popped up recommending we switch that setting, and it brought us to the correct settings page. Now, it often works, but very, very slowly once selecting the app, and again navigating from home page to channel guide to channel selection to selecting live tv or not. Wow. Exhausting, lol!Tablo terribly executed a simple idea – sending over the air signal through wifi. From smart lightswitches to security cameras, and all manner of blue tooth and wifi integration throughout our house, Tablo found a way to be consistently unreliable. It was a waste of money. Do not recommend. I will say I have better luck watching tv on my phone with the Table app than I do with a Roku stick, but who wants to do that. By the volume of complaints and advice seekers throughout the internet on this very subject, there’s an ocean of unhappy customers with the same problems I have. Not sure why Tablo struggles to accomplish a simple task.