What's a Q promo? My company gets a bit of a discount on Apple stuff -- I was gonna wait a bit on the purchase if I go ahead with it, but if this Q thing is attractive enough, I might start looking longingly at employees ...

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Has anybody networked two Tivos? What's the best way to do it cheaply?

Wouldn't you just attach USB networking cards to each one, and run them both to your router? Is there another way, that doesn't involve hacking?

I'm willing to run Ethernet under the floor, and I hear that the throughput is substantially better.

Better than what?

That's actually what I meant: what's the cheapest way to attach two USB-to-Ethernet cards? TiVo supports only a very small list of vendors.

The two options are cabling under the floor to our existing network, or connecting wirelessly to our existing network. I hear the throughput on a standard 802.11b wireless network isn't really good enough to move programs in non-geologic time.

802.11b is pretty slow.

Does anyone know if the USB port on the Tivo is a USB 2.0 port? If it isn't then going wired isn't going to help much.

I believe on later models it is, earlier models not.

Not only is the throughput better on a wired connection, but it is also (IME) a lot more reliable. The wireless routers I've used have a habit of flaking out periodically. I have to reboot it before a device can see it again.

I went wireless on my Series 2 when I moved into the new place here and so far it's been rock solid. I'm not transferring between Tivo's so I can't speak to the speed of that, but I do use the music streaming quite a bit.

My base is an Airport Extreme station from Apple. Also, all three of my powerbooks seem to be rock solid. At the moment I only have a small amount of Cat 5 running in the office and that's the way I hope to keep it. I'm planning to switch those connections over to GigE soon so that I can really have a fast connection to my effects and music server.

Has anyone else had problems getting to Hotmail lately? My work computer (which, admittedly, is slow) has been giving me server errors whenever I try to access the site for over a week.

I had no problems getting to Hotmail this morning, LJ.

Is anyone using the Voice over IP technology for their phone line?

I'm looking at one of the Vonage/Linksys products for my FAX line.