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Do you have a Best Buy near you?
Yeap, I do. The thing is, I've been a comcast customer for a while, so there isn't any incentive for them to give me a free modem. I guess I could look around to see if I can get a low-priced cable modem instead of renting on and ditto with the router, but I was hoping there was a modem-router-wireless aceess point-all-in-one!-type of snazzy machine, because that's what I had with the Verizon DSL service.
Man, that TiVo news is making me salivate. I guess I'll need to get a DVD-burner. Wow.
'Cept you'll still have to buy the Ethernet card for your TiVo. I keep forgettin'.
'Cept you'll still have to buy the Ethernet card for your TiVo.
I've been using home networking for forever. My collection of pretty pictures looks so much better on the big screen, not to mention I don't have a stereo in the living room, and can set my TiVo from work.
and can set my TiVo from work.
That's the bit that really tempts me.
do you need an ethernet card for the Tivo? Why?
So that you can connect it to a network. The TiVo doesn't come with network hardware, just a modem for calling headquarters.
To get the show to the PC.
'Cept you'll still have to buy the Ethernet card for your TiVo. I keep forgettin'.
Really? Mine came with an ethernet port. All I had to buy was the wireless network adapter thingy.
