If I have my Tivo connected to the cable box and tv, but not to either a phone line or a broadband connection for a few weeks, what happens?

You won't get program schedule updates, so you'll have to set things to record manually.

The Tivo won't be able to pull program data for subsequent weeks, hence no scheduled recording like SPs or wishlists, IIRC. If you go into your settings and look at the system information, it will let you know how far your guide data goes.

Thanks. I won't have time to get what I need to connect to broadband (and then figure out how to do it) for a few weeks, and the phone option is not a good one because of the set up here.

Perkins, what I did until I got the wireless adapter was to run an extra long (phone first, then network) cord over to the TiVo and force a manual update once a day.

The Tivo usually gets guide data for up to two weeks in advance, so even if you just find a way to update it once in that span, you should be okay.

If the schedule doesn't change.

I have no idea how often that happens.

How do you force a manual update?

I have phone cord that will reach the jack if I run it across the room at knee level. I can leave that set up for the week I am gone, but I can't leave it up full time once the cats get here, since it would be right at their eye level. I could set it up once a day just for a short while though.

Working from (vague) memory:

If you go into connection settings, you can test or "connect now."

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Aha -- TiVo Central>Messages & Setup>Settings>Phone & Network>Connect to the TiVo service now

I think that it's entirely dependent on the application that's being modelled.

You're right, he's wrong. Unneeded abstraction is one of the things that kills large software projects.

What do you think of UML so far? To me, it seems like a ton of work for very little benefit. I'd rather just draw basic block diagrams for the overview and then do class definitions for the details.