Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>
> wrote:
> > 1) retail brand names aren't terribly useful, they change vendors fairly
> > often
>
>

>   And I bet you can find online forums with people who swear that the
> given product is better because of the larger "antenna".
>
>  My cow-orker found something that came with what looks like a
> *plastic* parabolic antenna dish.
>
>  (My problem with the consumer product space is not that P.T. Barnum
> was right, but that it appears the market for non-suckers is too small
> to realize any product availability.)
>
>
The series 2 Tivos need a USB ethernet adapter.   Since they run Linux and
not x86 (PPC or MIPS, I have both) and Tivo controls what gets installed,
you have to be picky.

I have Linksys USB 2 adapters.  I've also gotten a generic from Weak Knees
(they specialize in Tivo mods).

See what Weak Knees or the Tivo communities recommend.

FWIW, my newer Series 2 is a PPC and slower then the older MIPS one.  If I
use Tivo desktop to pull a bunch of shows off (5-10, one at a time...) it
can hang the Tivo off the network.  Rebooting the Tivo is the only option
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