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Andy,
What exactly happened to your Slingbox?
-Jeremy
Oh My God!!! I live in the UK but have a SB at my condo in Kissimmee, near Orlando. According to the SB helpdesk it needs to be factory reset......so how the hell do I do that from 4000 miles away?? Is there anyone with a laptop with SPlayer installed who could go to my place (prop manager can give access) and do this for me?? I KNOW it's too ridiculous to be true, but sadly it is. PLEASE HELP!!!! Thanks, Andy.
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January 20, 2006 7:38 PM
Just stopped slinging last night...a dead stop..and I am almost 4000 miles away from it!! I CAN access my Linksys router remotely from here and for some reason when I checked its local DHCP client table...the SB had been assigned 192.168.1.3 which is miles away from the 192.168.237 that it had (and was a fixed ip as far as i knew) when I installed it. However, UPnP port forwarding was still set at port 5001 for 192.168.1.237...the original ip....so no connection!! When I changed the ip in the port forwarding to match the one the router "gave" the SB.....I could get as far as bringing up the password box.....which was better than the error message i got before....I almost thought I'd cracked it...but hey...neither my password or admin password now works...so STILL no connection!! Called support from the UK earlier today...and they recommended a "factory reset"....which I suppose clears everything out?? And of course....you can only do that from a local network....so for the time being I'm pretty stuffed.....true or false?
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January 20, 2006 9:13 PM
Can your prop manager go in and do the factory reset for you? It's just pushing a button.
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January 21, 2006 12:15 AM
it is a bit of a drive for me (i'm in deland, north of orlando) but let me know if nobody closer responds and i'll try to help you out with this.
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January 21, 2006 12:54 PM
Did you ever get someone to reset?
I remember how bad the TV was in the UK. There were only a couple of channels avail openair...BBC1, BBC2 and so on.
Are you guys still required to pay TV tax when watching TV over the internet via slingbox?
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January 22, 2006 3:23 PM
TV License. If you don't pay it, and they assume everyone does, they actually come and visit you and check to see if you have a TV.
February 4, 2006 12:08 PM
Cool. Just copy the slingplayer folder from your computer to a flash drive. That way even if they searched your hard drive they couldn't find anything suspicious. No tv, no tv software. no tax, thank you.
then as soon as they leave, you just stick your flash drive in the usb port and sling away!
Is it true that they used to (or maybe still do) drive around with a truck that could detect televisions by the electronic emissions?
louisw said:
TV License. If you don't pay it, and they assume everyone does, they actually come and visit you and check to see if you have a TV.
Cool. Just copy the slingplayer folder from your computer to a flash drive. That way even if they searched your hard drive they couldn't find anything suspicious. No tv, no tv software. no tax, thank you.
then as soon as they leave, you just stick your flash drive in the usb port and sling away!
Is it true that they used to (or maybe still do) drive around with a truck that could detect televisions by the electronic emissions?
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March 6, 2006 7:00 PM
ive been having a little trouble with this also. Ive removed any kind of equipment that can receive a tv signal (as i dont use it anyway) and just use my laptop .. if they want to search my laptop, they can bring me a ****** warrant ;) - know your rights when they come knocking, they cant inspect your premises without a warrant or permission. if your living in university accomodation they need to give some form of notification, and you can still refuse them access to your room on the day, you still have student tennant rights! (at least until they get a warrant - by which time you can uninstall any software) ...
also you only need a license if you have equipment which can pick up a tv signal, be it television, PAL etc .. (so dvd player, etc etc) ... a laptop has none of those (unless you use a tv card) so good luck to them. if the place you are slinging from has a tv license, your covered!
Even if they do have equipment for picking up tv signals, its not going to do much good, because there is no signal with slingbox other than net connection.
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March 29, 2006 4:00 PM
Oh gee honey, they've only got five channels and no MTV... we also have cable, satellite, and digital terrestrial. Think the UK's bad, try Australia - they didn't get cable or satellite until 1995!
Yup. If it's in the UK, somebody needs to pay it. I don't like the TV Gestapo, but I get commercial-free channels. In some other countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Italy) you have to put up with commercials AND pay a licence fee.
somms said:
Did you ever get someone to reset?
I remember how bad the TV was in the UK. There were only a couple of channels avail openair...BBC1, BBC2 and so on.
Oh gee honey, they've only got five channels and no MTV... we also have cable, satellite, and digital terrestrial. Think the UK's bad, try Australia - they didn't get cable or satellite until 1995!
somms said:
Are you guys still required to pay TV tax when watching TV over the internet via slingbox?
Yup. If it's in the UK, somebody needs to pay it. I don't like the TV Gestapo, but I get commercial-free channels. In some other countries (Ireland, France, Germany, Italy) you have to put up with commercials AND pay a licence fee.
August 17, 2006 5:06 PM
i live in australia and dread the day this might happen to me (and yes, tv over here is terrible)... still; i just loove how the thread is labeled, no slingbox? EMERGENCY! :)
-mp
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