HD Tivo and Vonage

[Alvarez]

I have a past thread on here where I finally got the HD Tivo to make the initial call. However I want to get it to where I no longer get the nag screens.. The Vonage guy said they are telling all of their customers to get a USB to Ethernet cable and the Tivos will call in that way over the internet.

He also said I could get a wireless USB adaptor that would communicate with a wireless router and get the updates through the USB port. He said I just had to have made the initial call so the USB port was active.

I am seeing mixed things on this and most say you have to usb a serial port connection.

How should I approach this? Will a USB wireless adaptor work?

 

[riggscm]

Hey Al,
the USB to ethernet or USB to wireless ethernet will work on the stand alone TiVo's but not on our HD TiVos/D* TiVos

D* has not enabled the USB ports for us to use.

I personally use a serial connection for the dial out process. granted this does not happen automatically, but this will get rid of the dialout nags.

you can get the needed cable from weeknees and various other places.

noets on how to set up can be found here : http://www.b-lan.com/otto/tivo3xp/