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I would really like to add tivo onto our network. If anyone has either the hardware spare or knows a way I can do network this inexpensively I would very much appreciate the help.

Dial up is struggling and machine starting to hang / lock increasingly. I have a spare disk on standby for rebuild but really would like to use a network card for fresh build.

Thanks for any help / advice.

The only company I know of where you might be able to buy a network card is http://9thtee.com/products/4-tivo-upgrades

It is in the US so you would need to add in shipping and customs, so it will work out fairly expensive.

Alternatively keep an eye open here and on ebay where networked TiVo's make an occasional appearance.

The cheapest alternative to dialup is likely to be a Serial PPP connection as described here https://www.safaribooksonline.com/libra ... 04s03.html

The article is for Windows XP but it is possible with Windows 7 as well (not sure about Windows 8 and 10). There are threads covering Serial PPP on this forum if you want to try this route.

Thanks for the advice - I will hold out for a cachecard if possible - I was hoping someone might have one sitting in an attic unused - a long shot I know. Dial-up seems to be increasingly unreliable these days for me. It's getting tougher to justify keeping the trusty Tivo

I used to use Serial PPP for a long time before I got my network card. I wrote it up on the TiVo community forum (search for my posts there than there are links in the sig). You just need a serial cable, then the TiVo uses the PC's internet connection. The USA TiVoweb guys even used that connection to remote into my TiVo for beta testing of TiVoweb so that it would work properly on UK TiVos. So it was worth having!

If pulling off programmes via the network isn't a high priority, it's a perfectly usable option for TiVoweb + daily calls.