Well I have had it since posting this thread and it works fine. The complaint I had about the caller ID has been fixed and now they show the name and number.

I have it set on the highest quality setting and I have road runner for my ISP. I currently have the unlimited plan but I probably could get by with the 14.99 one. Time warner sent me an ad for their VoIP service and they want 40 dollars a month for unlimited calling good freaking lord who would pay that.

For the series one tivo there is a hack you can to to make it connect via the serial port connected to a pc.