Hi Jeremy, In regard to your question of how fast two wired Tivo's are: I do frequently transfer shows between my Tivo's: the HD one gets all the cable channels and the Tivo Series 2 ony gets over the air broadcast channels. We transfer shows at least once or twice a week and we can watch the shows in real-time with no delay. I use the downstairs mainly while exercising so I don't bother skipping the commercials so I'm not sure how fast the buffer builds up. My kids occasionally watch their Nik and Disney shows down there - most are 30 minutes long and they can usually skip past the commercials.
Thanks for the insight on wired are full duplex - I guess I'm glad I had our house wired. Regards, Jay On Feb 15, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Sullivan wrote: > I have a wireless TiVo, a wired TiVo, and a wired PC. I don't use > TiVo ToGo anymore, but I sometimes copy files between TiVos. If I > tune my wireless TiVo to an unused channel and put it in standby, > then tune my wired TiVo to an unused channel and copy a show, it > *almost* copies a highest quality show fast enough for me to watch > in real-time. I let it go for 5-15 minutes depending on the show > length and then start watching it so I have enough in the buffer to > skip commercials. > > One question that I'm not sure that we ever answered is how fast > two wired clients are over a wired and a wireless client. You would > think that it would be faster since wired is so much faster than > wireless, but because the TiVo hardware itself is more of a > bottleneck other than your network (duplex aside) you actually may > not benefit from using wired all around. I never got around to > testing this to answer for myself because I don't especially feel > like running an Ethernet cable through my attic if I don't have to. > IIRC there are some very significant speed gains to be had if hack > your TiVo to use gigabit Ethernet with jumbo frames enabled but > that's pretty hardcore. > > Hopefully that makes sense and I didn't leave anything out. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
