Windows Media Center WMC 7 program guide

I have a HTPC running WMC 7 and use it with a Ceton Infinity / Verizon Mcard, up untill last week My program guide in WMC worked perfectly and now I get "progam data not available" in the 90% of the channels. Has anyone else experienced this and what solutions, if any do you have.I've done all the troble shooting I can, reboot, re-register the Mcard with Verizon, re-initialize Mcard with Verizon, reinstall WMC, etc. Any help would be much appreciated ... Verizon tech support has been unable to give me any useful information.

mickeywires wrote:
I'm still without my WMC 7 channel guide. I've set up the tuners 50 time to now avail. I think it's all a grand plan by Verizon to squeeze out us cable card users. I've been a loyal Verizon customer for over twenty years but this is the last straw ... Comcast here I come!
Mine is working fine on all 8 tuners. and 5 extenders. Where are you located? Try running the Microsoft Utility again, and make sure you Have ReadyPlay installed. Well my AMD uses ReadyPlay, I'm not sure about Intel. Intel probably has a different version. I have AMD Quad Core WMC Server, 2 Ceton PCIe cards, 2 Echo extenders, X-Box, 2 Windows 7 PCs as MCE with tuners dedecated to them. All working great.
One more thing you may wish to check. Run the Ceton Diagnostic utility Check the first link for testing the installation of the card. When in that window you can go to the tuner web page and look at the status of each tuner.
I know there has been a router firmware upgrade lately. Be sure nothing is being blocked on your network. In my router I have IGMP proxy disabled. I am not sure if that makes a difference. Log into your router and try this link to disable it.
http://192.168.1.1/index.cgi?active_page=6059
 

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              You might want to by pass the cable box altogether and  directly plug the cable antenna wire directly into the computer and see if it can tune in cable channels. You might not need the cable box after all. There are two antenna ports on your computer try switching the cable antenna arround. I found out  one antenna port olnly picked up one channel and when I switched the cable cable arround I was able to pick up all the channels.

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