Looking for Wifi and Tivo advice.

Hello,

My wife, son and I live next door to my parents. There is approximately
25 feet between our house and theirs.

My father has a Tivo in his family room. I have broadband and a wireless
d-link 802.11g network at my house.

I would like my father to be able to set his Tivo to use my broadband
connection to get its channel guides. The actual distance between his
Tivo and my router is about 35 feet with around a ten foot altitude
difference.

I don't think that I will have a problem with signal. While building my
house my family lived in the "other end" of my parents place which is
another 35 feet away with all the house in between. We were able to
connect our desktop out there. (This test was done after the cable was
installed in the new place, just before moving our computer and such over)

On to the query, finally. I want to do this on the cheap, and without
dragging my network down to .11b. (The transfer rate between the
laptop/desktop and Samba server in the garage would suffer me thinks)
Any suggestions on kit? I am fairly savy when it comes to this kind of
thing and can usually sus it out right quickly when it doesn't work out
of the box, but am having trouble getting the Tivo to play nice with any
of the "approved" usb wifi adapters. Everything I read says better luck
with a bridge or router in bridge mode using a usb to cat5 adapter.

Is anyone here doing this? If so what kit are you using? Can I get two
..11b AP's and run them in bridge mode specifying a different channel to
keep it from dragging down my network? Basically just looking for some
dialog on the subject before jumping into the fray again.

TIA,

Ryan


Ryan Case

Ryan Case wrote:

> On to the query, finally. I want to do this on the cheap, and without
> dragging my network down to .11b. (The transfer rate between the
> laptop/desktop and Samba server in the garage would suffer me thinks)
> Any suggestions on kit? I am fairly savy when it comes to this kind of
> thing and can usually sus it out right quickly when it doesn't work
> out of the box, but am having trouble getting the Tivo to play nice
> with any of the "approved" usb wifi adapters. Everything I read says
> better luck with a bridge or router in bridge mode using a usb to
> cat5 adapter.
> Ryan

Check out www.weaknees.com They have all sorts of Tivo and network stuff
(along with a lot of other neat stuff). Sorry I can't be more explicit, but
there are a bunch of DVR's with the tivo stuff built in FWIW, I have a
humanx DVR with Tivo, and ended up direct wiring my tivo to the WAP/Router
(USB to Ethernet adapter)... Tivo2Go software, and a codec. let me watch
recordings/live tv wirelessly on my laptops. Or with other downloadable
programs on the Tivo website, you can control the thing (set recordings etc)
too.