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Transfer of Shows from One Tivo to Another
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Posted by: jaquade

I Have a Tivo Series II and a Pioneer Tivo Recorder on a
wireless home network. The transfer of Shows
is painfully slow. Does anyone have a smiliar
configuration on a wired Cat 5 Network, and can
the tell me how long it takes to transfer a show? To
wire between my two units will be quite painfull and I
would like to know the gain before I endure the pain!

Posted by: bedelman

With a pure wireless system where both units are wireless, I can transfer a 30 minute basic quality program in about 20-25 minutes. If one is wired and the other is wireless, the same program takes about 15 minutes to transfer.

It's my understanding that with a purely wired system, high quality programs transfer in real time (a 30 minute program takes 30 minutes to transfer)

Posted by: jaquade

Why would a wired to wired transfer of a 30 minute
program take 30 minutes and a wired to wireless
take 15 minutes?

We have a smiliar configuration and the transfer
to my wired pioneer from my wirless series II
is well.. fine If I know I want to watch a show
and have an hours notice.

I was hoping to be able to transfer an hour
program that is already recorded in 15
minutes or less.

Posted by: ccwf

Because Bob was talking about a higher quality setting in the last scenario.

Posted by: tomo_kun

Uhh, couldnt you try a Cat6 eathernet cable, or cat5e? they are both suposedly faster then cat5

Posted by: bedelman

The USB ports on the TiVo Series 2 units are currently limited to USB 1.1 speeds. If your TSN begins with a "2", it actually has USB 2.0 hardware but the drivers are only USB 1.1 drivers.

Since USB 1.1 is limited to 12 Mb/s, you're not going to get much more than 10Base-T speeds regardless of what adapter you're using.

Posted by: ccwf

With wired, the primary limitation is the speed of USB 1.1, not the cable.

Posted by: d_anders

quote:
Originally posted by ccwf
With wired, the primary limitation is the speed of USB 1.1, not the cable.

And with wireless, it's all about your signal strength. Get it over 60-70% on each unit and it performs better.

I had to hard wire one of my TiVo's when I couldn't get the signal strength over 12-20%. It was too painful, but I still have one wireless which helps since wiring it would be dificult in its location.

Bottom line, TiVo show sharing works much better with wired ethernet.