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Originally Posted by jyl
How long do you have to wait for a program to transfer from TiVo 1 to TiVo 2 so you can watch it on the tv connected to TiVo 2? Let's say a 1 hour basic quality program.
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Regular Tivos can do this as well - I have two non-HD tivos and I can transfer between them just fine. It is however not very fast. The older Tivos have USB 1.1 so it doesn't matter what sort of network card you put in (wireless or wired - 54mb 802.11g or fast ethernet 100/mb) USB 1.1 is 11mb/s max.
2.0 is something like 400mb/s - maybe the newer HD models have that.
Still I could transfer a 30 minute show in less than 10 minutes I think. Also note that on the non-HD Tivo of course the files sizes will be smaller since they aren't HD file sizes.
I don't think you can network them over the coax - that would be going back in time technically =-).
Wireless is okay, wired is better. I wired my house up with ethernet in part to get my tivos off of wireless so I could do transfers better - when it WASN'T better I thought about it and realized my limitation was the USB 1.1 deal.