# Can Tivo work with Apple's Airport?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 7, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412 "2004-09-07T00:17:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/1 "2004-09-07T00:17:29Z")

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I have an Airport Extreme base station in my home and access my laptop wirelessly through it. I also have a Comcast Mortorla cable box and just bought a Tivo DVR. The Tivo requires that a phone line hooked up to it UNLESS you connect it wirelessly.

To do that, I bought a Linksys WUSB11 adapter and plugged it into the Tivo. No luck. It sees my home network, but entering password doesn’t do anything. In the Tivo set-up, should I be choosing the Linksys option or my home network.

Has anyone had any luck with such a configuration? I’ve spent hours on the phone with Tivo, but there not to Appl/Airport savvy.

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks

magellan01

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**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/2 "2004-09-07T01:29:12Z")

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Did you do the initial setup through a phone line? The Tivo is cranky about connecting wirelessly until it’s connected once.

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**Author:** ![Nobody\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nobody\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody_Special)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/3 "2004-09-07T02:21:33Z")

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Try posting this question at [TivoCommunity.com](http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/).

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**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/4 "2004-09-07T03:41:33Z")

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> [@percypercy](#):
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> Did you do the initial setup through a phone line? The Tivo is cranky about connecting wirelessly until it’s connected once.

Yes. I hooke up fine through the phone line and am now trying to switch to wireless.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/5 "2004-09-07T03:43:00Z")

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> [@Nobody Special](#):
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> Try posting this question at [TivoCommunity.com](http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/).

Thanks. I am trying that, too.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Turk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dan\_Turk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Turk)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-tivo-work-with-apples-airport/263412/6 "2004-09-07T03:54:02Z")

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my brother Bambi just made his TiVo wireless with the 802.11g netgear router I just bought…

I just made my powerbook wireless without buying airport extreme! the card I got is much more affordable…anyways, I’ll direct him to this thread