Mr. TiVo come here, I need you

The TiVo I got for my birthday has turned on, booted up, and started to play nice with my cable box. (Thank goodness, the cable box supports a serial-port input for channel changing -- no infrared dongles for me.) But even though this new generation of TiVos supports wireless broadband access, it has to be set up with a good old 20th century phone line. Blame the previous owners/remodelers of my house, but there is only one phone line in the place, and it's nowhere near the TiVo. So I'm now watching the TiVo talk to the mothership via about 50 feet of phone line dangling across chairs, sofas, and bookcases clear across the house. Oh well, either I'll get the wireless figured out or train the dogs not to trip on phone lines.