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[Darren King]

Have you tried forcing a daily call yet? I think what Peter eluded to is run the update script to load on a fresh copy of the files in question and see if that now restores a successful call or not.

[Donaldovitch]

It worked!
I had not realised that I did not have to make more adjustments to TiVo.
This morning I found that TiVo had made the daily call on its own, and that everything is back to normal!
As expected, I will have to fine tune channel 11 (win-nsw), but other than that everything appears to be back to normal.

I sincerely thank all who have had the patience to work through this with me.
I have personally learned a lot, and I admire your persistence in the face of ignorance
Not sure if this has helped your knowledge base, but it sure has mine!

Cheers
Do M (donaldovitch)

[petestrash]

Sorry, have been away from here for a couple of days.

Glad to see it has been resolved. Looks like your ISP has finally excluded minnie from the proxy.

If only they would have done this at the end of March, would have saved a lot of hassles for you.

Peter.

[Donaldovitch]

Yes, I rang my ISP (Hotkey) again and the respose was again quite vague.
They seemed bemused that someone would ask about about a proxy, and could only give me the same standard reply, that they did not use a proxy, but if they did it would be on port=80 (althought the website quotes 8080).

In retrospect it would have been better if I had contacted them in (email) writing with a clear explanation of my requirements for connecting TiVo.

Maybe a standard statement of "ISP requirements for OzTiVo" would be a useful tool for us newbie / novices.

Again, many thanks.
Don M
(donaldovitch)

[petestrash]

I used to have a quote in one of the transparent proxy wiki's explaining what to ask the ISP, but that seems to have disappeared.

I'll add something again.

Peter.