Is one of the units wired and the other wireless ? I've heard that the wireless connections are limited in terms of file transfer, perhaps the wired aren't limited in the same way. Signal strength may have something to do with it.
My experience with a S3HD box is that files transfer to the PC in near real time, which is to say very slow. Also, the record quality will effect the size of the file, HD are about 4x the size of a SD program of the same length, even more so if you use the higher quality levels. Digital shows record at the native quality, and don't get reduced in size based on the preferences like analog shows do. I've never tried to move a show from Tivo 1 to PC to Tivo 2, so I'm not sure how that works given they each have a different Media Access Key. There are programs like DirectShowDump that allow you to convert them to basic .mpeg file format to watch on any PC. And my favorite method to move something as large as a TV show between computers over the internet is DropBox. You get 2 gig of space for free, and additional space if someone you refer signs up and installs the program. It works very easily, it's simply a folder on your PC that synchronizes to match the folders installed on other computers that also had it installed. It operates mostly in the background, and there's also a web interface to use. *** PLEASE***, if you are considering using DropBox, let me know, I will send you a referral and I'll get an extra 250 mb of storage space for the referral, it costs you nothing to help me gain some capacity, just a little time while I refer you. I have not gotten any spam from DropBox and have nothing but good luck with it. CNET recently did a little How To on moving large files, and DropBox was the favorite choice of the editor doing the show. Glen
