A question, if I may, from you computer geek types out there. Here is the issue...I just got my second TIVO, and as you folks may know, you can hook your TIVOs to your area local network and transfer movies from one TIVO to the other or to your computer. You can use either a wired network or a wireless network. My understanding is that with a wireless network you may get some pauses when watching a recording as it is being transferred from a remote unit to the one at the location where you are viewing. Here is my problem. I already have a wired router and local network between two computers downstairs, but the TIVOs will be in two separate rooms upstairs. Trying to run the wired network to all those locations would really be a pain. It would seem like the wireless would be the ticket because of that but then I wouldn't get the transfer rates I desire and I'd end up spending some money to change to a wireless network. TIVOs are a bit sensitive on which wireless USB wireless transceivers they will accept so you can't always use the unit with the best price. I was thinking, I know, I know a dangerous proposition, about how DSL uses just a regular phone line to transfer data and wondered if I could use my existing telephone wiring as the data lines in a wired network? We are only using one phone line and the house is wired with a 6 conductor phone cable. Could I use one pair of the unused conductors as data lines? Is this a crazy idea or could it work? I would hook the wires directly to the router and then through a wired network USB transceiver to each TIVO. I'm guessing that I'd also have to put DSL type low pass filters on each of my phones.
Barry
