Thanks Peter.

Well the tests definitely worked, and I havent even opened up the firewall for several months - so nothing changed inbetween ! But the block was there in the logs - I picked it only 'cos I knew the IP address the time update was using.

With the "fix", can you tell me where my understanding needs "adjustment" please.

The emuProxy are a method of altering data that goes via the web so that an ISP's proxy will pass it ?

So the tclient entry you gave me tells the TiVo not to use emuProxy at all by specifying a particular IP address, right ?

But I already know that my ISP (TPG) uses a proxy.

Does this mean that TPG's proxy just happens to work with OzTivo ? Might I otherwise need emuProxy ?


Ive just read a lot about transparent proxys, and TPG (and others) and seen loads of workarounds . . . so Im just trying to understand what is being worked around.

If there's a post that explains the essence of what's going on, that might do the trick. I just hate putting in a fix (to anything, car, PC, wife etc) if I dont understand how and why it works . . . .