Networking a Tivo Using a Wired Ethernet Adapter
The D-Link 802.11 b/g wireless network adapter we've been using with our Tivo for the last 6 months has worked flawlessly. The only downside has been Tivo's lack of support for Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) authentication. Tivo only supports Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), which is vulnerable to attacks using widely-available hacking tools. The lack of WPA support has forced us to downgrade the security of our entire network.
A few days ago I received the new Netgear FA120 USB Ethernet adapter. I plugged it into the Tivo's USB port and was immediately connected to the LAN and Internet. Problem solved.
Next, I upgraded the wireless security on the Linksys WRT54GS access point to use WPA2 authentication. WPA2 uses military-grade 128-bit AES encryption, and an ever-changing key to eliminate the threat of record-playback attacks. Take that, evil hax0rs and governments snoops!