"Mark Ingle" <markinglenospam@nospamfastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> About a month ago I bought a FritzBox 7140 and retired my Vonage
> service. The box is great and has so many features.
>
> I also have a TiVo which is connected to the BT phone line, and makes
> daily calls to download data.
>
> Yesterday I noticed that the TiVo hadn't dialed up for quite some time
> as the tv guide data had run out. I tried doing a test call which failed
> on the dialing phase. I then disconnected the phone jack from the
> FritzBox (not the ADSL one, just the voice BT plug), and the TiVo
> connected fine.
>
> I re-plugged in the phone jack to the FritzBox, and plugged a normal
> phone in the jack that the TiVo normally uses, and it seemed to work
> fine for voice calls as I tried dialing numbers. However, for some
> reason it seems to interfere with data calls.
>
> With a long telephone extension cable, I tried connecting the TiVo
> directly to one of the FritzBox Fon POTS ports, and much to my surprise
> it worked!
>
> Any ideas? If I have to, I'll leave the wiring this way as it is
> preferable to having two sets of DECT phones, which I had to have when I
> had the Vonage box, but it's not ideal as the TiVo is some distance from
> the FritzBox.[/color]

The first question that comes to mind, is the BT extension that goes to the
TiVo
filtered?
What outgoing provider(s) are you using on the FritzBox? as the data
calls seem to work via VoIP, (always a present surprise when that happens)
I would be inclined to neaten things up and gain the cost savings,
assuming the TiVo makes chargeable calls.

--
Graham

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