WUSB11 wireless working OK now?

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Are people able to use Linksys WUSB11 wireless network
adapters reliably with their TiVo's now?

Right after TiVo came out with version 7.1 in January, some
people (myself included) started having problems with their
WUSB11's -- connectivity would be lost at random times and
required unplugging the adapter and plugging it back in.

As best I could tell from experiments I did at the time, it
seemed that my WUSB11 (version 2.8, in case that matters)
was putting my Linksys WRT54G access point into some weird
state; I couldn't connect wirelessly from my laptop either
when the problem occurred, but unplugging the WUSB11 from
the TiVo caused the problem to clear up after a few minutes.

FWIW, this wireless setup had worked flawlessly for months
before the version 7.1 software came out. And I remember
some other people reporting having the same problem I had,
coincidentally with their getting the 7.1 upgrade download.
So I assume there was some kind of bug in the WUSB11 driver
in 7.1 that was causing the TiVo to misconfigure the WUSB11.

I eventually gave up and figured out a way to hook up the
TiVo in question via a hard-wired network connection. But
now I'm finding myself potentially facing the issue again,
because I may be helping my mother connect her TiVo wire-
lessly to a broadband link, and I don't want her to run
into the same kind of trouble I had earlier this year.

So . . . did TiVo ever fix this bug? Or is it still out
there? If you had this problem, did you try calling TiVo
support; and if so, what did they say to you about it?

Rich Wales richw@richw.org http://www.richw.org