Originally Posted by PTravel

Yes, it actually works, within the limits of what it is.

When I travel, I set up a wireless router in the hotel room, so that I can use my laptop anywhere. My connection is wireless router to hotel wired-ethernet to my home router/gateway (via DSL) to a hub to the Slingbox. In most locations I get reasonable, but sub-broadcast quality. The Slingbox folks have developed software specifically tailored for the application, and it works pretty well. The video is buffered, sometimes by as much as 7-seconds, so freezes and drop-outs are rare. It does, however, make controlling the Tivo a little more difficult. As with any temporal compression video codec (like mpeg2, which is used for DVD), the more motion in the picture, the more data most be sent and the more likely that video quality will suffer somewhat. I find it is more than adquate for my daily fix of the Colbert Report and the Daily Show. If I was watching a heavily visual show (Lost, for example), I'd probably go to ABC's website and use their Flash download. Overall, I like my Slingbox a lot, and find that I use it quite a bit when I'm on the road, particularly if my wife is with me.

Originally Posted by auh2o

I can't seem to use Sling when connected at work or via VPN. I have Cisco VPN software and I use an address in the Automatic Proxy Confuguration URL in my browsers (when connected at work only).

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by auh2o

I can't seem to use Sling when connected at work or via VPN. I have Cisco VPN software and I use an address in the Automatic Proxy Confuguration URL in my browsers (when connected at work only).

Suggestions?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by RichMSN

For the person having problems, do what you can and then call the tech support line and they'll walk you through it. Easier than banging your head off the wall -- I do that for my day job.

Originally Posted by Pat89339

The firewall on my company's office servers block all the alternate ports I've tried so far, so I've just given up watching anything from there.

Originally Posted by LAChargers

I can watch mine in the network but not remotely. I bought it because I am leaving internationally tomorrow but can't set it up.

I have a Netgear router WGT624 and the website walks me through the setup.

The settings for the slingbox are:

Service/application: Slingbox
IP Address: 192.168.0.237
Start Port: 5001
End Port: 5001
Enable TCP


I turned on uPnP on my router and it says it can detect automatically.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you...

Originally Posted by ScottC

The IP is the IP locally, not the remote IP. First try connecting to the remote IP (go to www.whatismyip.com ) or try connecting using the FinderID instead of the IP.

Originally Posted by ScottC

1) Open the Slingplayer and select "add new slingbox". Then first try using the FinderID method, enter an alias and enter the Finder ID of the box. Then try to connect.

2) If 1 fails, edit the connection you made and try the "direct connection" by entering the IP you found for your connection.

Originally Posted by LAChargers

Sorry for all of the questions. I tried changing the IP address from the 192.168.0.237 to the IP address I found. Now I can't connect anymore... I might have changed it wrong. Any way to reset it?