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Adding a second tivo to my home network, can I use the network for guided setup, or doe sit still need the phone line?

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coolred

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I just got my second tivo, I havd had a series 2 40 hour for about a year now. It is currently hooked up to my home network using my broadband for its connections. I know that once you originally do the guided setup on it ovwer the phone, you can then change the settings to allow you to do it over again via the network, if needed.

So I am wondering, since this will be the first time I am running it on this tivo, will I still need to do it via phoneline. Or since I have already done it on my original and have it connected to the network, can I then connect my new one to the network and change the setting so it can do it over the network?


I searched the tivo site for htis info, but came up empty. I also posted over there, but figured I woul dget a quick answer here. Thanks
 
Try it and find out the hard way. I'm guessing you'll have to do a phone line setup initially regardless of having a network with another TiVO on it.
 
Yeah, I thought of that, but it would be a bit of a pain to set it up, then have to undo it all, so that i can take it somewhere to get it done via phone line. I probablly should have mentioned that. I only have a cell phone, no land line here. So if I set it up and it doesn't work, then I will have to take it back out and take it somewhere else to get it done. Not a ton of work, but don't really feel like doing it if I don't have to.
 
Originally posted by: werk
Connect a USB ethernet adapter, do the guided setup and use ,#401 as the dial prefix and it should connect over ethernet.
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Yeah I knew that was the way to do it, but I was pretty sure that only worked after you initially did it via the phone line. But I thought maybe since I had already done it with the original, that that may work.
 
I guess I will go ahead and try it. One thing I was just wondering though, when you first start it up, doe sit go directly into the guided setup thing? I mean do you even have the chance to change the prefix?
 
Nope, it looks like its giving me a no dial tone error. The prefix is actually #401 right, not just 401?
 
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