I've thought about taping it as well. Heck, if I was better with a soldering iron I'd connect the bare wires to the adapter's contacts! I'm kicking myself about this... Just last weekend I was up in the attic running two new coax cables - one to replace a failed TV outlet and another dedicated to my cable modem. While I was up there I should have wired the current wifi TiVo to my router as well. I was working the exact same drops!!! As for how wired vs. wireless speeds, MegaZone summed it up best: "Also, WiFi to WiFi transfers will ALWAYS take longer than WiFi to Wired, and usually Wired to Wired. Why? Unless you setup and Ad Hoc network, meaning the two TiVos are talking directly to each other, then they are communicating through the access point. Very, very few people use Ad Hoc since there is no network access, instead nearly all setups are going to be Infrastructure networks. When setup this way, the Access Point is the traffic cop and relay point.
"To transfer from Tivo A to TiVo B, data goes via access point P. So each packet is transmitted from A to P. Then P turns around and transmits it to B. Then B sends the ACK to P. Which turns around and sends it to A. A then sends the next packet. Repeat until done. "Well, only one device can be transmitting on the WiFi network at a time. So each packet has two time slots to make the trip from A to B, and 2 slots for the acknowledgement. (With Ad Hoc A sends to B, B ACKs to A - 1 slot each way.) If you move B to a Wired netork connected to the access point P, things change. A sends to P. P can then send to B over the wire, while A sends the second packet to P. Only one 'slot' is used for the packet and the ACK on the WiFi, and it can happen simultaneously with the wired side of the conversation. "So if you have two TiVos, and can wire one, do so. Or if you are doing TTG and are transferring from a TiVo to the PC, if one end can be wired, it will help." Someone, I forget who, said here once before that completely wired transfers are about 4 times faster than wireless, though I don't recall if that was wireless to wireless or wireless to wired. Ah well... with my current setup I can almost copy shows fast enough to watch them so I just start the copy 5-15 minutes before I want to watch. Lastly... Glen is very right about the TiVo brand wifi adapter. Ask anybody, it is rock solid. I used to use a TiVo approved NetGear router and with it I had to reboot my TiVos constantly to maintain a network. Plus the TiVo adapter is faster with encryption than the NetGear was without it - at least for me. If you're considering wifi on your TiVo don't even consider anything else. (Plus it looks cool.) A joke is a very serious thing. -Winston Churchill ----- Original Message ---- From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:07:42 PM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Linksys USB200M wired adapter On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Jeremy Sullivan wrote: > Is anyone else here using one of these? I've had one for over a year - > maybe two - and the physical connection from the network cable to the > adapter has always been touchy. Lately it has worked fine for many > months after situating the cable and adapter j u s t so and with the > TiVo on a high shelf, but it gave out a few days ago and I can't seem to > get the link lights to stay on. I've tried several cables, and looked > at the adapter to make sure the contacts, flip-up door, etc. are all in > alignment. I have one and my cat broke the ethernet cable "door" on it a few months ago. I taped the cable back in place carefully and it's been solid ever since. It's a crappy design, for sure but with some patience the tape works fine. -Jason ----- --- There are no absolute statements. I'm very probably wrong. --- "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
