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802.11b on your Tivo
Otto writes: "Those who don't regularly read the Tivo Community Forums may not know that a 802.11b wireless adapter for the Tivo, called AirNet, is in the works. It's being made by jafa, who also created the TurboNet card, a similar device to the TivoNet adapters available at 9thTee but faster. Long story short, he's auctioning off 4 beta boards of the AirNet adapter for the Tivo and giving the proceeds to the Elf Foundation, a group which brings Home Theater to ill children by setting up mini-theaters in children's hospitals nationwide. Good fun techie geek stuff, and for charity too! You can't beat that. The auction is here on ebay." Looks like the guy's home page is silicondust.com.
Flogging 4 items may not take long, so perhaps donate direct to http://www.elfsystems.org instead?
.. that I can connect my Tivo to my neighbor's network and force him to watch Pauly Shore movies?
they took a couple of small day care centers to court for "public viewing" of the little mermaid. not to mention i have quite a few cds that around the edge of it specifically prohibits "loaning of cds"
Err, why is this such a great thing? I mean, obviously it is - there are people on the forum mentioned above saying that the guy who did this is a "deity" and so forth. But none of them actually seems to have said what they intend to do with wireless, and I have to say it's not obvious to me what a Tivo and a PC could usefully have to say to each other.
Can anyone who knows a bit more about the Tivo enlighten me?
Not that they ever come off looking good anyways, but it'd be fun to see them try to villainize terminally-ill children.
"Your honor...don't let their ventilators, bald heads and palid complexions fool you...those children represent a huge menace to society."
I'm not sure even a lawyer could say that with a straight face.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
Even not knowing the video format, how hard could it be to hack two tivos such that one broadcasts the data it's storing over the wireless link, and the other stores said data. Combine that with a good antenna, and one guy on the block could provide cable for everyone.
vi is my shepard, I shall not font.
I might get modded down as a troll for this, but...
Isn't this charity kind of frivolous?
<sarcasm>Forget homeless/starving/victims of war, we need to make sure sick american kids can watch "dude, where's my car?" in surround sound.</sarcasm>
They accept donations here.
(Because I had no idea what is was either.
When will someone get on the ball and just develop an Ethernet->802.11b adapter that can be pugged in to any device that has standard 10/100 Ethernet jack so it could be put on a Wireless network?
Is this just an impossibility? Am I the only one who thinks this would be a hot seller? I want to buy a new ReplayTV 4000, but I have no desire to run Cat5 to it. I want to eliminate extra wiring hassle from my home theater.
Ah, well - probably just a pipe dream.
I realize that this is a somewhat offtopic question, but does anyone know why 802.11a, or 802.11anything-but-b equipment is not out yet? If I remember correctly, 802.11a goes 54mbps full duplex, as opposed to the current 11mbps on 802.11b.
I don't know about you guys, but the idea that something faster exists and should be accessible is what's keeping me from buying anything wireless right now.
-kwishot
The card itself is just a tivo->PCMCIA(cardbus?) bridge. It should support any flavor wireless you want to stick in it. The enabling factor here is the Prism2 driver software. What would kick some serious ass is if he'd slap on a nic too. That way you could have your tivo and AP in the same box... hack on an antenna and an amp and you'd have a seriously cool broadcasting rig. Keep your power below 1w and nobody's gonna bug you.
For those that already purchased TivoNet or TurboNet... I read that you can buy the WAP11 from linksys, run the ethernet from your TivoNet/TurboNet into the WAP11, and set it up so that it acts like a client instead of a normal wireless hub... connecting to your real hub. Since I have a couple items in my living room that can be internet connected, I was looking into this. I wonder if you can connect a regular ethernet hub into the WAP11, and then run all your devices into the hub. Or is the WAP11 limited to one IP address negotiation...
WAP11
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i wasnt saying that, but they have a habit of deciding what they think is legal/illegal, and they have a bite behind that bark
It's your own fault anyway. Tivo's should be rackmounted, where you don't have to worry about such things. Personally, I'm getting at least 3 DirecTivo's and turbonets, and rackmounting them. Don't have to have big hard drives either, just enough to do 10 hours or so. When it's full, archive them to my fibre channel raid, and switch over to #2 or #3 for the 15 minutes it will take to empty the hard drive. Then it's ready again. As far as watching, I've already got plenty of rg6 out to the living room, I'll just move the signal to the TV with that, and have IR repeaters for the remote control. If I need to record more shows concurrently, add another to the rack. If I need more storage, add more FC drives to the raid. Never worry about blessing drives and all that nonsense. Now if we could just manage to get pitou source hosted somewhere again, without the sharks mauling it...
Oh, and Jafa, if you ever read this, I like your design skills, but why the rj45 on the card itself? A 10 pin male header, so that you could move the jack off the board via ribbon cable would have been ideal. Snaking cat5 into the chassis is just tacky.
I'm going out on a limb here, but...
I think you might watch too much TV.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Until the TiVo ripping software is a little more advanced and doesn't desync the audio quite as frequently as I have seemed to experianced for the most part (or is it cause I only record in Basic?) a wireless card will be of little value.
My other concern is the TiVo's total lack of security, with my wired network card in my TiVo I can have it behind a firewall or direct linked to my system, wireless TiVo would let anyone and their brother into it.
I hardly consider a 8 or 10 pin male header "yet another interface". Especially when it would still be easy for people like us to make the internal ribbon cable. A second rj45 works, but that's just one more in what could be a long line of them. For me, this is gonna be in the computer room, so it's a straight cable to the switch, but for other's the thing is in the living room. That's 1 internal rj45, 1 external, 1 living room wall, 1 more on the far side, and finally one on the switch. I count 6. It's probably a small or even non-existent difference between 5 and 6, but one less is still good, and it would have cost him nothing design-wise. All we really need, is a decent way to mod the back panel... short of pressing a new one. I hesitate to butcher stuff with my dremel, you know.
To be sure, you can configure quite a lot of access point devices as bridges (including the WAP11), but not as both bridges and access points at the same time. Just clarifying.
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