Comments on: Bowing at the Swedish Altar https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/ My little corner of the web Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: frostyw https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4741 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:02:58 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4741 I don’t know exactly how those wireless phone extenders work… do they have to be on the same electrical circuit where you connect the line end? Most household installations I know run a separate circuit for the kitchen and range.

]]> By: katmaxis https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4740 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:27:16 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4740 wow, i don’t know how many phone jacks in my place actually work, but my cordless phone base is the only one plugged in, and the extra phones are just plugged into the a standard 110v outlet. i <3 my cordless phones!!
for a temp solution, you could buy a spliter, extra couplings [phone wire kind] and lots of extra phone cord.

]]> By: posicat https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4739 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:04:19 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4739 Depending on how the walls are laid out, a new phone jack might not be too hard to run either. I’ve put cables in places people never though possible.

]]> By: fuzzbear https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4738 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:52:06 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4738 In reply to woofwoofarf.

Have you ever looked at Orb? Its basically a program for your PC that given you have access to a TV tuner card can do all the same things Slingbox can do….although probably at not as good a quality. But it ccan stream to any web enabled device… it was handy the other day I was watching Clerks 2 streaming off the rip i made on my PC on my cell phone when i was sitting at the VW dealer.
http://www.orb.com

]]> By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4737 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:49:42 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4737 In reply to woofwoofarf.

Huh…just had a thought re: the Slingbox. We’re going to have an Airport Express back there anyway to hook into the stereo. I wonder if we could hook the Slingbox into that for network connectivity…

]]> By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4736 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:48:16 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4736 In reply to fuzzbear.

Alas, would that it were so simple! Unfortunately, our unit is a legacy from when TiVo and DirecTV were partners. One of the quirks of the DirecTiVo hardware is that while the USB port is present in the hardware it is not active (or supported throught he software), thus the DirecTiVos aren’t network-aware and must dial home for program data via telephone. With the advent of dual-tuner Series 2 TiVos, we were sorely tempted to migrate back to cable…until I priced out what Comcast would cost compared to what we have now. Our monthly DirecTV bill is $54.98 (including $5/month DVR support); Comcast would be almost double that for a similar programming lineup, plus TiVo has jacked up their monthly rates for service. For all of that, we can deal with a little inconvenience.
Now I need to figure out how the hell we’re going to get the Slingbox working with no network wiring available…

]]> By: fuzzbear https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4735 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:46:10 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4735 In reply to takaza.

Ah wow..that sucks!

]]> By: takaza https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4734 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:45:12 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4734 In reply to fuzzbear.

While this is a good thing for normal Tivo’s out there, DirectTV isn’t playing ball with Tivo anymore and never implemented the USB slots on these units.

]]> By: fuzzbear https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4733 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:24:20 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4733 Whynot just get a cheapo Linksys wireless A/B usb adapter and plug it into the tivo.. add Wireless router and viola! no need for the phone jack.

]]> By: stormdog https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2007/01/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4732 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:20:47 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/bowing-at-the-swedish-altar/#comment-4732 In reply to woofwoofarf.

The train would be nice too. Andrea was trying very hard to find something that she could commute to by train. Unfortunately, that didn’t end up working out.

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