As great as it is, I want to dump my high speed Internet connection. They keep raising the price and I find I'm just reading news and discussion boards, so I plan on using cheap dialup and free wireless access in my area.

Since my PC and Tivo will just be using the regular telephone, I wanted to hook them up together with a crossover cable and be able to transfer files from the Tivo to the PC and access the Tivo via telnet and FTP.

I have searched the discussions here and I understand that you can just plug them directly together with the crossover cable, but I don't have a DCHP server program running on either. So I guess I have to set up some kind of static I.P. between them. What's the best way to do that?

Is there some DCHP server program built into XP Pro that I have to turn on or is that only on a server version of XP? My setup works fine now with a router doing the DHCP for my PC and the Tivo. I notice that transfer speeds are limited to about 1.75 mbps with this setup.

I think I can manage using the net_install program to set a static I.P. address on the Tivo. I just am not too sure what I need to adjust on the PC side to make this work as I want.

Any tips? Is there a tutorial out there? Can I use the router without the high speed internet connection somehow to handle the DHCP?