No phone line or internet connection

[Yeison]

I haven't been able to use the internet connection in my dorm and i don't have a phone line. My question is if i buy a tivo and take it to my mom's house every ten days just to download the programming will it disappear after i turn it off and take it to my dorm?And will the season pass and scheduled recordings remain after I unplug the tivo? I am thinking about doing this until i get my internet connection sorted out.

[pkscout]

That should work. You'll probably start getting a nag screen at some point about running low on guide data.

[d_anders]

I haven't been able to use the internet connection in my dorm and i don't have a phone line. My question is if i buy a tivo and take it to my mom's house every ten days just to download the programming will it disappear after i turn it off and take it to my dorm?And will the season pass and scheduled recordings remain after I unplug the tivo? I am thinking about doing this until i get my internet connection sorted out.


To answer your other questions, yes, you can take it to another location to download guide data. TiVO will keep the settings when it's turned off. It stores all the settings on disk. This all set, transporting your TiVo a lot will likely diminish the overall life of your TiVo's hard drive.

So let's get to the real issue at hand. What's wrong with the internet connection in your room? If you're trying to hook up your TIVo directly to the campus network, that will likely not work...and depending on how your college/university secures it's network, there are ways to route traffic via an authorized pc, etc.

[Yeison]

the problem is that when my tivo is doing guided setup for the first time it can't connect to the internet via the ethernet connection in my dorm. I have tried everything, I gave the school network my tivo's mac address, I even told them to open some ports and IP ranges that the customer service guy told me (although i am not sure they opened them), what am i missing?
Is there another way to get the tivo to work?

[ZeoTiVo]

the problem is that when my tivo is doing guided setup for the first time it can't connect to the internet via the ethernet connection in my dorm. I have tried everything, I gave the school network my tivo's mac address, I even told them to open some ports and IP ranges that the customer service guy told me (although i am not sure they opened them), what am i missing?
Is there another way to get the tivo to work?

nope - those ports need to be open nad there have been other cases of tight security on college networks stopping guided setup. You might be able to just get guide data after you finally get guided setup done elsewhere.

If you have a PC you might get somehwere exploring shared internet connection from that PC but if the firewall is blocking key ports then that is not much help either

[morac]

I'll throw in a word of caution about having the TiVo connect every 10 days. Schedules can change and if something changes between the time you connected and when it airs you might get wrong recordings. Also certain programs sometimes don't get the correct program info until about a week before airing so that would be wrong in the guide data as well.

The ports that my TiVo are currently trying to use every 15 minutes or so are:
TCP: 80, 8000
UDP: 5353 (this is only for MRV and HME apps so you don't need it)


A number of ports the TiVo uses are specifically for things like HME applications or TiVoCast and the like. The basic ports that the TiVo use are TCP 80 and 8080 (some schools block this because it can be used with a proxy server to bypass restrictions).

If you can get your school to open all outbound ports you should be fine.

If you need specifics there is this old knowledge base article at TiVo (http://tivosupport2.instancy.com/LaunchContent.aspx?CID=319EB5CA-F513-42CC-A1DB-42C46626AD28), but I don't know if it's still applicable.

If I can remember, I'll try and watch what ports my TiVo's connect to when they make their daily connection later tonight. I could force one now, but I'm not near the TiVo.

[flaminio]

This may be out of fashion, but I'd say you'd be better off studying in your dorm room rather than watching TiVo...

[cherry ghost]

If you need specifics there is this old knowledge base article at TiVo (http://tivosupport2.instancy.com/LaunchContent.aspx?CID=319EB5CA-F513-42CC-A1DB-42C46626AD28), but I don't know if it's still applicable.



Thanks for the link. Adding "204.176.49.0 to 204.176.49.127" to the list of trusted IPs in my firewall fixed the PPP Serial problem (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=5617185#post5617185) on my S1.

Anyone know if adding these will cause me any security problems?

[aadam101]

What kind of cell phone do you have? If it offers any kind of dial up networking you could set it up to work as a modem and your Tivo could dial through that via your computer. I did this once and it worked just fine after banging my head against the wall trying to get the setup correct.