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andrewjameshowar · 12-06-2015, 18:31

Not a friend - a complete stranger. Gave it away on freecycle. There is an implicit assumption in what you say that it must belong to Virgin and that they will want it back. Not sure why that all has to be so. If it is I should probably offer it back to them, if they could be bothered to come and collect it.

But more importantly (to my curiosity at any rate), how does this work? The Tivo has a built in broadband connection? Which cable does it come down? Are you saying that the Virgin TV cable can also carry a broadband signal for the TIVO? And what you refer to as "activation", this must mean putting some extra gizmo in the box at the end of the street so that my cable is given the broadband capability as well as the TV (and phone) signal. As somewhere there must be an ADSL board/chip, unless this is in the TIVO itself.

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andrewjameshowar Inactive Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 4	Re: Basic Tivo question Not a friend - a complete stranger. Gave it away on freecycle. There is an implicit assumption in what you say that it must belong to Virgin and that they will want it back. Not sure why that all has to be so. If it is I should probably offer it back to them, if they could be bothered to come and collect it. But more importantly (to my curiosity at any rate), how does this work? The Tivo has a built in broadband connection? Which cable does it come down? Are you saying that the Virgin TV cable can also carry a broadband signal for the TIVO? And what you refer to as "activation", this must mean putting some extra gizmo in the box at the end of the street so that my cable is given the broadband capability as well as the TV (and phone) signal. As somewhere there must be an ADSL board/chip, unless this is in the TIVO itself.