Slingmedia magic
I’ve had 2 weeks of fiddling with my home network to get this wretched Sling Box working. The Sling Box takes your TV feed, bungs it out over the ‘net where it can be consumed when you’re on holiday or upstairs on the laptop. Very cool, but … what a nightmare.Amazingly, the Sling Box doesn’t have built in WLAN so you need to set-up a wireless bridge with an ethernet connection. I’ve tried the boxes I had lying round, the Apple Airport express, a Belkin base station which I tried to turn into a bridge, a D-link bridge that would bridge but not to ethernet, and finally a Belkin bridge with ethernet connection, which worked. Now, I’ve got an admittedly complex home network (apple wlan, and a PC wlan on different subnets), but this was an absolute mission, and I’m left wondering how anyone other than a network engineer could manage it.But what about the Sling box, well it works, it’s a bit glitchy, and jerky, but perfectly watchable, and with a full Sky remote, it’s v. impressive. £100 and no monthly, it’s a must buy.
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