Phasing out dial-up modem service

Heh. I remember back, the Series 1 only option was phone line (well, there were hacks, but still) and the room I had the TiVo in did not have an outlet. 100 foot phone cord FTW!

 

Tested with TiVo (in no price/performance order):
EX7000
DAP-1650
WUMC710
RE6500
TEW-800MB
TiVo Wireless N (AN0100)

No matter the choice, a good router is really important.

 

Heh--I still have that set up for and connected to my Toshiba Series 2 TiVo box, although the box has used a TiVo Wireless G adapter for many years (the phone system is a nice back-up--although I may have used it as such only 1x).

 

ANY wireless bridge or extender that the tivo will connect to via ethernet will work

 

How will this effect Directv TiVo users? Those boxes are all Series 2 and use the dialup to autherize DVR service and software uodates.

 

My Series 2 DirecTiVo was never hooked to a phone line and worked fine.

 

Once the S2 DTiVo has authorized service, the phone line isn't needed, but if you ever need reauthorization you may be in trouble. Guide data comes over the satellite, and the probability of there ever being a software update for those boxes is effectively zero. The "current" THR22 doesn't need a phone line at all.

 

It is very gratifying to see this type of proactive communication, not to mention the customer-friendly policies to provide accommodation for the users affected by the forthcoming discontinuation of service.

Kudos are due!

 

Thanks for the clarification.

 

Thanks for the heads up. I am not affected. I used a competing DVR in two OTA applications where no ISP was available. These DVRs get their guide data via PSIP and do not need to authenticate. Too bad TiVo could not offer similar customers a Lifetime option with a PSIP EPG and no authentication required.

 

I think I have an external 56K modem in a box somewhere, along with a DSL modem...

Anyone remember the 3-Way days when the download was 512K thru the cable and upload was thru the modem??? The beginning of high speed. Mid to late 90's I think, with Adelphia (eaten by Comcast)...

 

Ahh, my college years. Only that one time though.

 

No affect to me either. Have not been on dial-up since before the turn of the century.

 

Has it just lost scale of economy or something? That's so bizarre, I would think it would be nearly free these days considering how cheap telephony in general is. There are still some modem services hanging around out there for alarm systems and faxes and stuff, but otherwise it's pretty dead. I guess the other news is that someone is still using a modem, even though they haven't been needed on S2 boxes since at least 2004(???).

I think the bigger issue is that MPEG-2 SD service on DirecTV is going away next year. It's going to be a big year for phase-outs with DirecTV MPEG-2 and Verizon CDMA both dying by the end of 2019.

 

I assumed this had quietly gone away already.

Does TiVo still do the Teleworld infomercials in the middle of the night?

 

Probably not. The gold star ads and other ads can appear at any time. There's a new one in the Discovery Bar right now. It seems they have a new marketing person who is trying harder.