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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.

"Mark Ingle" <markinglenospam@nospamfastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:1iduwk2.1hlep5dfg10uiN%markinglenospam@nospamfastmail.fm...[color=blue]
> 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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In message <frkgpn$nt2$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Graham.
<me@privacy.com> writes[color=blue][color=green]
>>
>> I also have a TiVo which is connected to the BT phone line, and makes
>> daily calls to download data.[/color][/color]
If you feel you are up to it technically why not convert your TiVO with
a Network Card and Digital Cache? There are hardware kits from some
people called Silicon Dust. There is ample assistance and software
available in the various TiVo Forums. You will need an old PC which you
can boot up in Linux to initially install the networking software. Not
difficult but you need to be technically competent.

Our two TiVos are connected to our in house network and simply make
their daily call direct to the TiVo computers through our Broadband
connection. No telephones or modems required. Very quick too.
--
Richard Anderton