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Monday, July 2, 2012

Thinking of Buying a SlingBox?

7:38 PM  High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting  

What is a SlingBox? 
Here is what SlingBox website has to say:
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Never miss your home TV shows regardless of where you are. With the Slingbox SOLO take your TV with you on the road. Easily connect the Slingbox SOLO to practically any one of your home theater sources and watch your standard-definition (SD) or high-definition (HD) TV shows, sporting events or special programs on your laptop, tablet, smartphone or connected device over the Internet from anywhere in the world.

EASILY CONNECT


Connect to one HD or SD source in your home theater, such as your DVR, digital cable set-top box or satellite receiver.

 

 

 

 

TAKE CONTROL

Take complete control of your TV via the web with the comprehensive and easy-to-use on-screen remote control and electronic program guide (EPG).

SIT BACK AND ENJOY

Watch your favorite shows in crisp SD quality over the Internet via
your Mac or PC laptop, tablet, smartphone or connected device—
from anywhere, anytime.
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What you need to install a SlingBox:
  • A router connected to the Internet with one available wired port.
  • The knowledge to assemble various stereo components together.
  • An understanding of wireless routers and the knowledge to forward a port.
  • The knowledge to extend wired networks.
Things you will need to get a SlingBox working:
  • Know where the infra red sensor is on the cable box.
  • Have a Plan B, if you cannot run a Cat5E cable from the wired port of the wireless router to the back of the SlingBox?
Plan B
  • Purchase a PowerConnect wired Internet adapter. Using your electrical outlets and the wiring that connects to them, you can plug an adapter into an electrical outlet near the SlingBox. A Cat5E cable can connect the adapter to the back of the SlingBox. The other adapter is plugged into the electrical receptacle near the wired router port. Another Cat5E cable connects the adapter to the wired router port. This completes the connection from your SlingBox to the wired router and then to the Internet.
  • Two Cat5E cables that are long enough to connect the SlingBox to a PowerConnect Adapter and from the wired router port to the other PowerConnect Adapter. The two 6' in length Cat5E cables that came with the PowerConnect Adapter will be too short. You will probably need 10' length cables.
  • The distance between the two PowerConnect adapters determines the data transmission speed. If the distance is further than two adjacent rooms, the data transmission speed may be too slow to support your SlingBox's needs.
Additional components you will need to buy to make your SlingBox work:
  • If you don't access your SlingBox from a web browser, the iPad and iPhone App will cost $30.
How long will it take to install a SlingBox?
  • It took me 2 hours from start to finish, but times may vary depending on your situation.
Carl Thorne
Expert Computer Consulting 



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