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June 3, 2006 06:53 PM

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tvspy

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I will be selling my Slingbox on eBay this week. It works great, I just don't use it as much as I thought I would.

My question is this:  I updated the firmware bios on my slingbox and have been using the new version of the sling player. When I sell my Sling, will the new user be able to use the old version of the sling player that came with the Slingbox when I purchased it.  I have the original cd and don't want the new owner to have problems since I updated the firmware on the Slingbox and he's trying the old software with the new firmware.

 Is this going to be a problem.

 Thanks

 

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Brandon C. Avatar
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June 3, 2006 8:36 PM

tvspy said: I will be selling my Slingbox on eBay this week. It works great, I just don't use it as much as I thought I would. My question is this:  I updated the firmware bios on my slingbox and have been using the new version of the sling player. When I sell my Sling, will the new user be able to use the old version of the sling player that came with the Slingbox when I purchased it.  I have the original cd and don't want the new owner to have problems since I updated the firmware on the Slingbox and he's trying the old software with the new firmware.  Is this going to be a problem.  Thanks   
I don't know offhand but how about doing a uninstall of the player you have now and installing the CD and see what happens?

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June 3, 2006 9:20 PM

I believe you can downgrade the firmware too..  I think you'll need to delete all the newer firmware files from the program files\sling media\slingplayer directory for it to use an older one but it should work.

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June 4, 2006 4:47 AM

How transferrable are slingboxes - surely it must be major disadvantage that someone knows your finder id- obviously there is a password that can be changed but you can't change the Finder ID? 

Would this worry anyone else..?  Sure it probably doesn't matter that much...

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June 4, 2006 12:56 PM

 

One thing for sure that you should before selling a used Slingbox:

Factory-reset the box by pressing and holding the reset button for 7 seconds.

 

this reverts to earlier firmware, purges the settings like IP address etc..

 

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grendell Avatar
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June 4, 2006 1:46 PM

How does the Finder ID work? Especialy if your ISP does not give a fixed IP address?

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June 4, 2006 2:54 PM

grendell said: How does the Finder ID work? Especialy if your ISP does not give a fixed IP address? GUndecided

 

I assume the slingbox polls slingmedia's servers and they keep a database of the current IP address against the finder ID - hence the ability to find the slingbox.. if that makes sense..

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June 6, 2006 1:17 PM

Thanks

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