tivo usb adapter replacement

Buy it at Amazon.

If you want to use it on a series 2 DVR, check out www.tivo.com/adapters for old and cheap adapters that you might be able to find in a box in your garage. Nothing beats free. Keep in mind those old adapters will slow down your DVR while the TiVo branded one won't. If price is your object, there you go.

 

Not enough information. I believe Series 2 can use a number of different adapters, while Series 3 and up are linked to only TiVo brand adapters. You may be able to use a bridge, too.

Edit: Or yeah, what he^ said.

 

Bridges are good. For me one bridged wireless connection supports my TV, BluRay player and TiVo DVR with one port left over for gaming system use when desired.

 

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I vote for the bridge, ususally a bit better range, better antenna, etc.

 

Way cheaper too.. $20 WiFi adapter with dd-wrt added on == multiple devices connected to the net. (I have a S1 included in that!)

 

Forgot that.

What he said

Of course wired is almost always better.

Best bets in order of speed and reliability are wired, MoCA, Wireless bridge, USB adapter.

 

netgear wnce2001 wireless bridge works great. Transfer speeds have been great between my two tivos. I is USB powered from the tivo and uses the ethernet port to connect to the netgear device so you are not trying to find a wireless device that will work with tivo drivers it just thinks it is plugged into an ethernet port. initial setup is done on a pc then just plug into the tivo.

 

As mentioned elsewhere, some of the cheap adapters, designed to work with computers, are sort of like WinModems, i.e., they don't have as much hardware onboard as they should and offload the work to software that the computer has to run.

The Tivo, of course, isn't set up to run that software, so those adapters don't work well, or at all, with the Tivo.

Try googling "site:craigslist.org /sys OR /ele tivo wireless" and set the search options for the past month. You might find someone selling one cheap.

I got one this way back in December for $25.

 

It is not that the TiVo is not "set up" for the adapter software (kind of), it is that the developers of those chips only write x86 running software, and generally refuse to provide source code so other non-x86 system developers could write code for them. Not to mention things got out of hand identifying particular versions of adapters which where supported, and there is not enough processing to support the adapter code and the needed WPA security.

TiVo pulled a 180, by putting a co-processor in their adapter, which takes network processing off the host system.

 

And just to expand slightly on your history lesson, one major reason it turned into a huge PITA is that wireless adaptor makers had a very annoying habit of changing the chips without changing the adaptor's model (or version) number.

So you couldn't even make good lists for "known working" adaptors because Linksys or whoever might get a better deal next week on a non-supported chip and switch to that without changing the packaging.

 

All they did was update their included x86 Windows driver, which of course did not help PowerPC Linux based TiVo.

So how does it work for the new Wireless-N adapter, which connects via Ethernet? The adapter even has its own IP address, for the stated reason for it to be able to automatically download firmware updates. Is it really a bridging solution?

 

The tivo N adaptor didn't work well with my medialink router so I went with a WD livewire and I haven't run into any problems streaming anything yet.

 

Yep. It has a proprietary cable that terminates in a splitter. The splitter has a receptacle for a wall wart for power, and a standard ethernet jack, which you connect to the ethernet jack on the TiVo. It supports the push-button instant WiFi configuration protocol, or you can hook it to a PC and configure it via a Web page on the adapter. On the TiVo, it reports using the Ethernet connection, not WiFi.