Tivo transfer speeds - hardwired
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005In the continuing saga of my Tivo transfer speeds:
I have now doubled my Tivo download speed to about 750KBytes per second. I acheived this by connecting (more…)
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Hacked Tivo arrived; works as advertised
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005I received my upgraded and hacked Tivo via Fedex yesterday. It’s not “illegally” hacked, as far as I can tell. Everything seems on the up and up. It has a bigger hard disk, the 4.x software, some extra third-party stuff installed, and the USB/WiFi enabled. I bought it on eBay. I probably overpaid for it, but I (more…)
Hacking DirecTivo without a phone line — Vonage
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
I have had DirecTV service for about 9 years, Tivo for 6 years and Vonage for 2. I love them all dearly, but they don’t all work well together.
Well, DirecTV doesn’t like Vonage. It won’t complete its calls to the mother ship. Apparently this isn’t required for long-term service, though, as I haven’t completed a call in years, to my knowledge.
Tivo’s modem works just fine on Vonage. I really need Tivo to make its daily call, so I’m glad I don’t have any hoop-jumping to worry with there.
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