Series 1 & No Phone Line

[Sheffer Stroke]

My wife got me a used Sony DVS 2000 off ebay for Christmas. We havn't had a phone line in a couple of years (with e-fax, scanners, and mobile phones, who needs a phone line). We get our internet through the cable company; we have a wireless router; and we have a laptop that runs Windows XP.

I'm planning to do the initial setup at my parents house, but I don't know what to do about weekly updates. So far, the solutions I've read on the internet involve either opening the tivo box and installing an ethernet card or using my laptop as a go-between. Both options present technical difficulties for me. I have a cursory knowledge of hardware (I once built a desktop from a motherboard, processor, cards and drives I ordered online), and a less than cursory knowledge of programming.

I don't want to give up and pay the phone company $20 a month just for tivo updates. What are my options? The easier the better. The less expensive the better.

[stevel]

The simplest option is the TurboNET wired Ethernet card connected to your router. All it requires is inserting the card (more difficult than it sounds) and setting the "dialing prefix" to ,#401 (pause, enter, 401). No programming, no pulling the disk.

The cheapest solution is serial PPP to your PC, but it's not the easiest.

I don't recommend any of the wireless options for you.

[jtown]

TurboNet (http://www.9thtee.com/turbonet.htm)

That's what you'll need. It's not cheap but it's cheaper than a phone line after a few months. Of course, you'll need to have a home network in place to make use of this card.