I wonder if the makers of Slingbox are reading this thread...

These discussions about "managed switches" and "port forwarding" and "assigning static IP addresses" all point to a product that's not quite ready for mass market. Sure people in the IT industry know what these are, but this is just too complex for the regular people.

By the way, i am in IT, know what all this stuff is, but don't want to purchase a product that requires this amount of support and hand holding. I get paid good money to deal with these issues during the day - I don't want to deal with them "for free" in my off-hours. I want it to "just work."

Imagine if it took these types of gyrations to get your Wii or Xbox connected to the internets.