The "normal" set up would be a broadband souce (cable or DSL), with a router used to connect multiple devices to the home network, typically a couple computers and the tivo.
I don't believe you can really get two tivos talking to each other with just the wireless router, at the least it would be a somewhat unique way to use it, and even then, I don't believe they would share service data or the like, so it's probably of no use anyway. You *might* set up a home network, and allow tivo to connect to the internet over the phone based internet connection of the computer, in theory should work, but it would likely not work well, but it might allow the home media options you don't have now. Tivo might also try to "call home" when your computer isn't dialed in, meaning it would fail and try again tomorrow. You can also wire many of the S2 and S3 boxes direct, without wifi, with a standard network cable to a router, no real advantage to this other than cost. I think to network your two boxes you'll need a router, with the two boxes and computer attached, and then see if you can get it to use the dail up connection on the computer. Some of the features might simply need broadband to work, certainly any movie downloads and such need more than a dialup connection, and it tivo's programmers didn't anticipate a networked unit with a dialup speed, you could be in for many headaches. Glen ----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Schultheis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:49:03 PM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] USB G Wireless Adapter Glen wrote: > FWIW, Amazon had the Tivo brand adapter for under $40 when I bought one for > my inlaws. After I paid $60. > > And I concur, each unit would need it's own, without each having it's own > adapter, there is no way for the boxes to communicate, other than phone > line, and even then they simply can't talk to each other that way. Please excuse my ignorance in asking this question, but as you know, ignorance can be cured with knowledge, while stupidity goes all the way to the bone. And the people on this list are full of knowledge. I do not (yet) have a DSL line at my home; I use dial-up for my computer and two TiVo boxes use the phone line to "phone home." If I get one adapter for each of my TiVo boxes, would they be able to communicate with each other, or is it necessary to have a DSL modem? Dave Schultheis San Jose -- dave6592 [at] accesscom [dot] com - http://www.accesscom.com/~dave6592 Dave Schultheis, San José, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, CA, USA Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
