McGarrett - not sure if this is helpful but I used to get freezes after every 5 or 10 minutes and was never able to diagnose the problem.
The freezing has however stopped, since I upgraded to the latest version of the player (1.0.4.107).
I think this is an issue with my wireless bridge, but....
I have successfully configured by Slingbox and am using a Linksys WET54G wireless game adaptor bridge. I receive a beautiful feed for about 5 minutes and then the picture freezes. When I look at the Linksys bridge the Power and Ethernet lights are on as normal but the "Wireless G" light is glowing steady as opposed to a slight flicker which is the normal operation.
I doubt it has a cache, but it's as if the bridge fills up OR somehow the Wifi signal coming to the Slingplayer on my laptop freezes up. I have to unplug the power to the bridge and relaunch the Slingplayer and everything works fine for about another 5 minutes when it happens again. Seems like when the stream gets up into the 1200-1400 kpbs range is when it locks up. I have upgraded the slingplayer and have checked the VMR9 box. as instructed.
The bridge is over a year old. Wondering if anyone knows if this would be a Bridge issue or is there a configuration on the Slingplayer that I have overlooked?
Thank you very much for your input!
McGarrett
I doubt it has a cache, but it's as if the bridge fills up OR somehow the Wifi signal coming back to the Slingplayer freezes up. I have to unplug the power to the bridge and relaunch the Slingplayer and everything works fine for about another 5 minutes when it happens again.
The bridge is over a year old. Bridge issue or is there a configuration on the Slingplayer that I have overlooked?
Thank you very much for your input!
McGarrett
Thanks, Michael. I'm using 1.0.4.107 and still have the issue. We'll see if anyone else has any ideas.
I've just about had it with this technology. The hours I've invested in trying to get this to try to work as advertised has gotten ridiculous.
McGarrett,
I would recommend eliminating the wireless bridge from the equation. Can you directly connect the Slingbox to your router or switch for testing purposes? If the freezing stops, you have a problem with your wireless bridge.
Mind Over Matt'er - Technology musings, opinion, and more straight from TechLore's head geek.
McGarrett -
Could the bridge in question have somekind of power-save feature enabled.
Are you using WEP or SSIDs for your connected devices.
Also, like Matt suggested, eliminating the bridge completley by connecting directly to the router would at least hone down where the problem is originating from.
Sling On!!
Thanks for the replies.
Yes it will connect directly to the router so it probably is the bridge. I don't have WEP enabled and the SSID I'm using is consistently just the name of wireless network. Should I be doing anything different with the SSID?
My next step I guess is to try out a different bridge. I'm currently using the Linksys WGA54G (a Sling recommended bridge) which really only has a simple admin set up to identify the network.
McGarrett
I used a D-Link DWL-810+, pictured here in my official Slingbox review from last July, with great success for quite a while. I'd highly recommend it.
However, if you're tired of dealing with wireless, I recently reviewed Sling Media's SlingLink, and found it to be simple and painless to use. since you've already verified that it works when connected to your router, then there's no question the SlingLink will nicely.
Mind Over Matt'er - Technology musings, opinion, and more straight from TechLore's head geek.
Try upgrading the Firmware on the wireless adapter. I was having the same problem (with the same wireless bridge) and it seems be working fine now after the upgrade.
Thank you all for your suggestions. As it finally has turned out it was a bad bridge. Bought a new one (same Linksys model) and all is well.
I'm now finally in the Slingbox era.....
Thanks again!


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