Comments on: TiVo working on WPA support

By: megazone

megazone — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:18:48 +0000

Definitely not faster than the Ethernet port on the S2DT. As for the older S2 boxes, I haven’t seen anything concrete. Though I suspect it would be more of an issue on the 5xx boxes which are CPU limited far more than the 1xx/2xx units.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:02:30 +0000

I have 3 TIVO’s one with a wired connection, one with a linksys adapter and one with the TIVO adapter. Seems to me that the Tivo adapter is fastest then the wired then the linksys….these are only my observations, and I thought that I was crazy thnking that the wireless was faster than the wired until I read this post.

By: yakko7178

yakko7178 — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:48:18 +0000

I have nothing to prove this, but it feels a bit faster to me.

By: doc_quixote

doc_quixote — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:52:31 +0000

For those of us with ethernet jacks behind our entertainment centers, does the tivo-branded wireless adaptor do better than wired? (I’d think not, but wired does seem a little pokey for 100mbit…)

By: corvar

corvar — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:06:06 +0000

That statement has been on the support site for a long time, and no more word on when it will be realized that I have seen.

By: travisd

travisd — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:44:47 +0000

All WPA is designed to be “run” from the adaptor — WPA was specifically designed to be backwards compatible with the weak crypto built into older WEP adaptors – RC4 I believe. WPA2 relies on hardware AES which is built into most modern (made in last ~4-5 years IIRC) adaptors.