I've travelled 6,000 miles to Ireland from California (for the 2nd time) to setup a Slingbox. When I return to the U.S. on Wednesday, I will have travelled a total of 24,000 miles - FOR NOTHING. You could say that I have, literally, gone to the Ends of the Earth to get this wretched rotten thing working.

I am now sitting here in my parents house, looking at a BROKEN Slingbox (I think). It will not get an address from my router. In fact, it will not get an address from any (of three) different routers I've tried. It sits there. The network light blinks. Then the network light goes off. I even went out and wasted another 100 Euro on another router today, just to be sure. I can't take it back. I'm out of time. Totally out of time. It's Monday night - Tuesday really - it's 2AM. I have one more day here. Yes, I've tried the "Reset" button - about 40 thousand million times. And I've tried resetting the routers (yes, routerS - plural).

I've spent the whole last week here setting up a new computer for my parents, a new network, wiring the place, getting all the TV cables and jacks organized. I even got the high-speed internet installed in Dublin - just TRY doing that yourself - the broadband "service" in this country is a joke. It took me months to get a reliable service with a decent upload speed.

And there's my useless P.O.S. Slingbox, sitting there with the network light just OFF.

I personally think the NICs in the Slingbox are of poor quality. Looking at the forums, this does not seem to be an isolated incident. This should be ROCK SOLID. People are thousands of miles away sometimes.

What a waste of time and money. I'm so depressed I can't bear it anymore.

Guess I should "bring it back" for a replacement? No problems - I'll be back in California on Wednesday!!! What's a few more grand anyway, and more days or weeks of travelling, getting time off work, and wasting time...