Can't connect to network

[mccoady]

I was at my mom's yesterday hooking up a digital converter box for her series 2 Tivo and needed to rerun Guided Setup. I had set her up with a Tivo Wireless Adapter a year or so ago and it had been working fine but ran into a problem when running Guided Setup.

It picked up the name of her router/network name "Dlink" but then went on to say it couldn't connect to her network. I have average or above average computer skills but when it comes to networks or troubleshooting them or fixing them I get lost. It gave a error code (maybe 2?) but I forgot to write it down. I tried several times to connect but finally gave up and used the phone line which is a long distance call for her. So:

1. It used to work so is there any detailed instructions I can try to get it to connect?

2. I never looked at her guide before I did the Guided Setup to see if it had been populating like normal up to two weeks or whatever it is, but after doing Guided Setup she only had 1 1/2 days of shows. Does the Guided Setup cancel out all the prior guide info or does it appear maybe she hadn't been connecting to her network for awhile?

[andyf]

Guided setup cancels all previous data. 1st phone call gets you a day or so of guide data. A 2nd call in the background will populate the other 11 days of guide data over the course of the next 8 hours or so..

[evanborkow]

Did you reboot the router?

[mccoady]

No I had thought about it but since the network seemed to be working I didn't. I may go back to my mom's tomorrow so would that be the only thing to try?

If I want try again to connect her Tivo via her network do you have to go through the Guided Setup or is there a shortcut that lets you change how it connects?

[evanborkow]

Under settings, phone & network, change network settings.

[mccoady]

Thanks!

[Leon WIlkinson]

Don't forget once you reboot you will have factory settings. which would have no security or the network name(SSID) name you was using.


When you go into try to connect again, the passcode for the network you was using will be saved, [if you try a neighbors unsecured connection] the passcode for that SSID is lost. and you will have to remember it.

[mccoady]

Well my mom lives out in the country without any neighbors closer than a mile so we didn't setup any security on the router. If I reboot the router and then try to connect her Tivo to the network won't it still detect the Dlink router and allow me to attempt to connect?

[evanborkow]

[QUOTE=Leon WIlkinson;7083182]Don't forget once you reboot you will have factory settings. which would have no security or the network name(SSID) name you was using.


Not on my D-Link router.

[mccoady]

I went to my mom's today and tried to connect to her network and it worked perfectly with 68-70% signal strength so I have no idea why it didn't connect the other day, I didn't even have to reboot the router.

While I was out there I noticed something else strange about the behavior of her Tivo. I mentioned above I had setup a digital converter box to work with it and as far as I know it's working okay except it missed recording Dr. Phil yesterday which it should have. Her Season Pass was set to First Run and it was a new episode so I hope it doesn't have anything to do with the converter box, I know my DTivo never misses a recording.

But the strange thing I noticed is while it was recording Dr. Phil today I was able to change the channel on the Tivo how is this possible?

If I remember right since her series 2 only has one tuner you could never switch channels while it was recording but I suppose the converter box could have something to do with it. At first I was kind of stumped because the Tivo channel was showing Rachel Ray (our channel 10) but when going to the Now Playing list it was recording Dr. Phil (our channel 12). I flipped through several channels while Dr. Phil was recording.