I moved my wireless router from inside the cabinet with my computer to the top of the computer desk, which obviously vastly improved the wireless signal, and now I'm getting faster-than-realtime transfers from the TiVo to the computer -- assuming I'm saving the file on the computer in TiVo's MPEG-2 format. Transferring non-MPEG-2 video files from the computer to the TiVo is still taking a long time, as my computer desperately tries to transcode the video file and play music out of a 28,000-track iTunes library and run a web browser and a few other programs that are living in the background and taking up valuable processor time -- all with a mere 400 MHz processor and 704 MB of RAM. (How do you like that second number? That's a result of the computer coming with 64 MB of RAM six years ago, and then me adding 128 MB pretty soon afterward, and then me adding 512 MB after a precipitious memory price drop about a year later. Obviously, one does not have to add memory in pairs in this particular Macintosh model.)