TiVo and DirecTV in a Cellular-Only Household?

Balthisar asks: "Like so many others, my wife and I have recently made the move to pure mobile telephone use, and have disconnected the landline permanently. Today, I turned on the TiVo and received a stern warning that only three days of the program guide remained! I screwed up. Anyone have a good emergency way of refreshing the program guide while I wait for my TiVo networking card to come in? An additional concern is DirecTV: I never use Pay Per View, but it's not connected, either. Any horror stories about not having your DirecTV connected to a phone line? If you don't have any advice, at least take this as a cautionary tale to make a good checklist before taking the leap of eliminating your terrestrial line!" This topic was handled in a previous article over 2 years ago. What suggestions do you have for others, that find themselves in this position?

Comments

Don't Do Anything Perhaps?

[Rude Turnip]

(Putting on the dad cap) Doing nothing is always an option. This case sounds more like an issue of bad planning, rather than a technological one. You could buy a wired phone to cellular adapter (such as the Dock N Talk), but why spend all that money when your ethernet adapter is arriving soon? Why didn't you buy your ethernet adapter sooner or hang onto the landline until all of your communication needs were met?

As a TiVo owner myself, I can say with confidence that not having the service available for a day or two is not a make or break issue, but it could have been prevented by simple planning.

Re:Direct Tivo reports 175 days since I've dialed

[weave]

If you do that, how the heck is Tivo supposed to find out how many times you rewound during the superbowl half-time show?!