Thread: TiVo Multiroom streaming ... who's ready?
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Old 03-11-2012, 14:49   #18
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Re: Multiroom streaming ... who's ready?
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Originally Posted by scollie View Post
I see that some of you have already got your Tivo boxes linked ready for multi-room streaming. Would someone like to explain exactly how this is done?

I thought that it would just involve using a couple of Powerline adaptors, but in looking at the website http://www.tivo.com/products/tivo-stream/index.html which RB2004 mentioned in regard to streaminig to remote devices, there is mention of MoCA and clicking on the link to 'What is MoCA?' it states

Note: Wi-Fi and Powerline (also called HomePlug® ) networking are not sufficient for streaming shows reliably. MoCA, on the other hand, provides 170 Mbit/s Net TCP throughput!

So is MoCA required to set up a reliable connection between 2 Tivo boxes?
Not even Blu Ray uses anywhere near that bandwidth. Even the HD channels on VM (broadcasting in MPEG 2) are around the 15 to 17Mb mark. Decent Homeplugs (say, 200Mb at least but you may get away with 85Mb) should be fine.

As for help on setting it up, I wrote this network help on my blog a while ago (but it probably needs updating in truth):
http://virgintivo.blogspot.co.uk/p/n...your-tivo.html
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