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Posted by: jhinestivo

Hello All,

I have recently upgraded my Sony SVR-2000 with the TurboNet product, here are my questions so far:

I did everything per the posted instructions- and FTP even works to the box, however, my box won't make daily calls. I checked the firewall logs, and nothing is trying to "get out" from the tivo IP address, so I figured that the dial out is still not working.

To recap, I have done the ,#401 as my dial prefix, I have removed the phone line < just to be safe >, I have also been able to FTP to the box, so I know it is functioning on the network.

2nd, I keep reading about software version 3.0, and I am wondering if that is a possible upgrade- currently I am running software version: 1.3.0-04-137-010... If there is an upgrade path to the new software version, that would be helpful.

3rd, after I closed up the tivo box, I was able to ping it, ftp to it, but I cannot telnet or use TivoWeb. I thought I installed all three at once- but I guess I didn't. Is there a way to get tivoweb and telnet working by using FTP to upload to the box, and edit startup files?

that's all for now, my next upgrade is to convert to a larger capacity dual drive system.

thanks!

Posted by: Robert S

,#401 was added in 3.0.

I think it's incompatible with the standard TurboNet drivers.

Posted by: jhinestivo

So is the daily dial over ethernet not going to work on this old software version?

Are there ways to upgrade to 3.0?

Posted by: Robert S

I'm not an expert on these things. I know people did do their daily calls over the net before 3.0, but I assume you're already looking at the instructions for doing that.

An upgrade to 3.0 will wipe out all your current hacks, of course, but 3.0 is a much better version than 1.3 and I don't think it'll interfere with your hacking.

Presumably you disabled the version upgrade (in the boot parameters?) or you would already have 3.0.

Posted by: jhinestivo

No, I didn't see pre-3.0 upgrade instructions for turbonet, on www dot 9thtee dot com they only have the 3.0 on the pages and under support.

I didn't disable anything, I got the tivo used from work- did a factory reset on it when I got the Turbonet card, and followed the instructions with my card- however, they were for the 3.0.

I am not concerned about losing programming or recorded show. But, I do not have a local phone line to call tivo service. I do have a cell phone adapter to connect to analog devices < tivo, etc... >, but would prefer not to kill the minutes if I dont have to.

So, if you have instructions, or know where some exist, I would like to do the daily calls over ethernet.

thanks Robert S.