Can I cancel the rental of the VIP7802 on Ethernet and maintain recording on the others on Wi-Fi?

[Thosh]

I've 3 7802 boxes, only one of which is wired Ethernet to the GigaHub. If I cancel the rental and remove this box from the system, does that have any effect on the availability or quality of PVR recordings on the two remaining boxes connected by Wi-Fi?

I'm thinking it should not on the assumption that there is no actual video transmission from the customer to the server during recording - that should all be a backend operation and likely involves no recording at all, only database flags and pointers operations. 

Edit: replaced "designated as the Cloud PVR" with "on Ethernet" after discovering that the "Manage my receivers" sub-window misled me to think that one was so designated. Switching browsers brought the three up in a different order but the "Fibe TV Cloud PVR" section remained under the 1st receiver. Poor UI design.

[AlexS · Accepted solution]

I think you can simply unplug it and follow instructions to pair it with the wifi. If you wanna downscale, you have to keep at least one Dvr so the cloud service won’t be canceled. And if you have all three from the very beginning, you might loss credits,

[Thosh]

Thanks AlexS. I've a Chat transcript with a Bell agent stating that the reduction in my net monthly rate will be the full $8 rental, i.e., with no impact on credits.

Because the box in the living room effectively satisfied the need for a Chromecast with GoogleTV there and because the FibeTV app works well enough for me on the latter, I thought I would use it on our basement TV which my wife rarely watches, thus freeing up one STB. However, she is protesting that she doesn't want to mess around with different remotes so there goes my potential savings of almost $109 yearly.

[AlexS]

I see. I always thought remotes of the streaming boxes are simpler than those for the dvr. If you are using Bluetooth Slim or Voice, they can be paired with Bell Streamer (the one available at Source for those doesn’t have Bell residential services), and most buttons work including the number pad. But if she uses functions only available on the dvr quite a lot and moving around boxes isn’t feasible, that would be worthwhile.