Tivo WiFi not working for TTG

Posted by JohnP 01/15/2008 at 11:21

My TiVo WiFi stopped working with TTG – TiVo to Go – TiVo 2 Go
I saw the solution of wiping everything on a forum somewhere and didn’t like that thought, so I tried something different. v8.3.x tivo on my series2.

Steps:

  1. Reboot the tivo.
  2. During the reboot, before the power is really back on, disconnect the USB Wifi gizmo.
  3. Allow it to boot up completely.
  4. Verified that no network was seen.
  5. Try to configure the network and the tivo asks for the usb wifi to be connected.
  6. connect it.
  7. configure the network settings – most were remembered (IP, netmask, WEP, WEP Key)
  8. Now the https URL works AND Tivo2Go works from a client PC without changing any settings.
  1. Even after all of this, you may need to double check your firewall settings. When I travel, I enable my software firewall in WinXP – no exceptions. I recently forgot to re-enable the firewall exceptions once I got back home. This stopped the TTG from working.

Your mileage may very, but this was much easier than wiping the TiVo AND only took about 10 minutes to try.