Thanks JohnScott. It has been a steep learning curve and you know, I thought I knew a bit about computers. I will explain the lot so far...
I have NIS 2009 on Vista Home Premium. My PC is hooked to a Lynksys 3102 ATA, the Linksys ATA is hooked to the ADSL phone line. The ATA is then hooked to the wireless NB6Plus4W ADSL modem. The modem is hooked to the PC and wirelessly to the TiVo.
I now fixed my PC IP address 192.168.0.xx as per http://www.portforward.com/networking/static-vista.htm and fixed the primary and secondary DNS server addresses as well.
(I don't understand gateways, IP's, DNS, DHCP or ports very well)
I then went to the > advanced > Virtual Server > Port Forwarding menu of the NB6Plus4W and port forwarded all of the TiVo ports to my PC's fixed IP address.
I then went to the > advanced > Router > Application menu of the Linksys 3102 ATA and port forwarded all of the TiVo ports to my PC's fixed IP address.
I then went to the > Internet > Settings > Smart Firewall > Advanced Settings > Configure > General Rules > Configure menu of NIS 2009 and allowed local and remote TCP and UDP communication to and from any computer for all of the TiVo ports.
I then ensured that windows > Task Manager > Services... > Bonjour Service was 'started' and had a startup type of 'automatic'.
I still could not connect. I changed the DMZ settings on the ATA and modem to forward all ports to my fixed IP address.
I still could not connect. I decided to disconnect the Linksys ATA to isolate that from the equation. I couldn't get the internet back on line though and reversed this action. This is when my daughter yelled out that there was a message on the TiVo saying "Congratulations...blah, blah"
I had applied all changes as I went but I had not restarted the ATA or the modem. When the internet was disconnected / reconnected, it must have restarted the system, applied the firewall rules and the portforwarding. I am not sure which worked.
Disconnecting the internet to get it to work seems a pretty basic thing that I should have tried on day 1. I am now not certain that all of the other port forwarding and fixing the IP address means anything at all.
What do you think.
Thanks for the help JohnScott. I know you have put some thinking into this as well and I appreciate it.
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