engadgetHD.com: TiVoToGo & MRV HD Review (How Fast Are Your TiVoToGo Transfers?)
Ben Drawbaugh has posted a wonderful review of TiVoToGo and MRV (multi-room viewing) on the Series 3. Overall, the review is rather positive however, Ben did say that his transfer speeds are rather slow.
Granted, the transfers were pretty slow — in fact, they were about twice real time — and our understanding is that the hardware is the bottleneck, so upgrading to a gigabit network probably won’t help.
My transfer speeds aren’t as slow as what Ben is experiencing. For example, a 30 minute HD shows takes around 43-45 minutes to transfer. I don’t know why there is a difference between what I’m experiencing and what Ben is. At first I thought it was because both of my TiVos are wired but than I noticed that Ben’s TiVos are wired as well. Whatever the case may be, I’m happy that my transfers are faster :).
How fast are your transfer speeds? Are they more in line with what I’m reporting or are your recordings transferring at a speed similar to what Ben is reporting?
November 10th, 2007 at 11:31 am |
My MRV speeds are horrible and take several hours. I have two wireless bridges (one at each TiVo) and a suspect cheapie router. I may need to “borrow” a SlingLink or two from work and see if that helps.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:31 pm |
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November 10th, 2007 at 4:37 pm |
My transfers are in line with Ben. It takes forever. I love my Tivo and everything about it. This was the feature that sold me on the tivo and I am just not very happy about it.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:17 am |
What’s your setup look like? Are your TiVos wired or are they wireless?
November 11th, 2007 at 8:18 am |
I’d be interested to see what kind of speeds you get if you were to run an ethernet cable to you TiVos. That’s how mine is setup and I haven’t had any issues.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:42 pm |
I have a wired 100 mb connection and it takes about 20 minutes to transfer 1 hour of SD video. That calculates out to about 10 mbps, which is horrible.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:27 pm |
I use a wireless connection and my transfers take as long as the program length in minutes. I’m thinking of digging up an old computer to dedicate to TIVO transfers so I don’t tie up my personal computer for so long. I record everything at medium quality.