I had a mag254 box from a while back where I was on another service, it was actually given to me from my brother when he moved abroad. I used it a little as I already had a locked in cable company and put it away. As my time with the cable company is coming to an end I decided to dig it out and see what I could find. I stumbled upon this reddit, so glad I did and so dumb of me not to realize this was here all along.

Anyway, the mag254 I have has never been updated from the original firmware and Im sure its pretty old.

After reading through the forum a little I signed up to the iptvsubs 1 day trial to see how the service was, and channel line up and everything.   Everything looked good. I was impressed, the service my brother had before was pretty much all sd channels and kinda crappy quality. The channels on the iptvsubs seemed higher quality for sure, not sure if full hd but looked good.

The only problem I had with it was the EPG, the guide was always stating my time as 2 hours ahead and to be honest it was pretty crappy quality. But Im not sure if thats more to do with the old firmware of the mag254 or the service provider. Any thoughts/suggestions?

If it is an issue with the service provider, are there any recommendations on who to go with, that has a better EPG and similar or better channel lineup or more higher quality streaming.

Thanks guys