Advanced Networking Issue (Tivo Activation, routers, WEP)

[qjkruege]

Hello,

I just purchased a Tivo Series two Dual Tuner with current software. I live on campus and use my university's free wireless internet. I have a Windows vista and XP laptop each with g wireless cards. I have a ethernet port in each laptop as well. I do not have a phone line in my room.

I want to hook up my Tivo and activate it without a phone line using the internet. The issue is that the University controls the WEP key. When I first logged into my computer and found the free internet for capus it instructs you to enter in your school id and password. The wireless card defaults to "WEP key will be automatically assigned".

The big issues is that I can only get internet access through my laptops with wireless cards.

QUESTIONS:

1. How can I hook up and activate my Tivo Series 2 Dual tuner DVR to my computer so the Tivo unit can access the internet? Keep in mind I can only receive wireless signals not wired signals. Can I use my computer that is receiving authenticated wireless signals from my school and build a network form it to my Tivo box?

I have a few ideas, but I do not think I can get them to work even if they are doable.

a. Can I do something with a crossover cable and do internet sharing even though I do not posses the WEP/WPA key?

b. Can I get purchase a router to talk to the university router. Maybe clone my computer's MAC address and then distribute it to the Tivo unit?

Thanks for you help. Please provide step by step guidance if possible.


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[ah30k]

Do you need to first go to a university web page and enter your user/password via the web page? Once you do this, the rest of the web seems to open up?

That is the way my university connection worked.

I've seen this type of security on a lot of wireless LANs that are hosted by semi-public wireless LANs such as hotels and such. I'm not really sure how the security is brokered, but it seems like the web browser somehow hands off the authentication.

If so, I don't think that you could use a router to make your own little subnet because your router would need to some how access that web page first and pump your user/password through it.

Anyway, sorry I am not offering any help.

[SNJpage1]

If you add a ethernet card to your laptop you could use the cross over cable to connect the tivo to it then set the laptop for internet sharing. You would have to log on every few days to update the tivo. The tivo would keep trying to connect until the laptop was logged into the network of the school.

[qjkruege]

I purchased the Tivo Wireless g adapter and I couldn't get tivo to connect because it wants the WEP key that is university only knowledge. I only entered my user name and password once I first installed my wireless card into my laptop. i have never seen that screen again.

I turn my computer on and i am connected. I can see all of the stats about the network i am connected to (ip, dns, gateways, etc . . .) but there is a box checked that states, "WEP Key Provided for me automatically" within a windows dialog box.

I was trying to get creative and somehow use my wireless laptop and bridge it to my Tivo box in the hope that my Tivo box could dial the internet through it.

[qjkruege]

My computer can only access the internet via my wireless card. I do have an Ethernet card in my laptop and I have a crossover cable. I have enabled internet connection sharing, but I really do not know how to set it up and if I need to know the IP addresses of the Tivo box.

I can almost get through Tivo set-up, but I get ot the N13 error saying Tivo cannot connect to the internet.

[qjkruege]

My laptop has an ethernet port that I am not using and I have a crossover cable. How do you actually get it to work? I feel I am still going to have a security issues, because my laptop access the internet via secured wireless wep?

[ah30k]

For internet sharing, how do you get your laptop to issue an IP address to the TiVo? In a home environment, the TiVo would get an IP via DHCP from the home router.

[Yog-Sothoth]

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