Originally Posted by back seat
I got a sling box 2 weeks ago and love it - so now that I am going to keep it I want to configure it properly and unfortunately that means I need a Wireless Bridge, because the 50' Ethernet cable doesn't work well with the room decor.
I purchased a Motorola Wireless Bridge (WE800G) and it is on my network (Linksys Router), but I can figure out how to get the port forwarding to work.
The Router IP is 192.168.1.1
The Wireless Bridge's IP is 192.168.30.1
How do you set up Port forwarding? Argh?
Therein lies your problem. You have the Wireless Bridge on a different "network". If your subnet mask is set to 255.255.255.0, 192.168.30.1 is effectively a separate network from 192.168.1.1. The fix is to make sure you have nothing on 192.168.1.30 and set THAT as the IP for the wireless bridge.
Now that you've done that, you're only part of the way there. You need to set the IP on the Slingbox (DO NOT use DHCP). The bridge is 'transparent'... you'll set up port forwarding to the Slingbox IP whatever that may be. The easiest thing to do (although not the most secure) is to make sure uPnP (Universal Plug'n'Play) is turned on on your Linksys box and then set the Slingbox to negotiate uPnP. It'll then set up port forwarding on it's own. Failing that, we need the model number of your linksys router to tell you how to set it up. It's NOT that hard and better to do it manually than to use uPNP.