September 15, 2006 6:39 PM

I am also remote and getting this error

"Unable to connect to Slingbox. Please check your network Firewall and router settings. Error 0x93200005"

I found disabling the following Startup Item made it work for me. (goto start=>run=>msconfig and click ok then on the startup tab disable the following  if you have it.

That startup Item is 2portalmon in c:\program files\2wire\2portalmon.exe and the location was hklm\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

October 17, 2006 8:30 AM

same error here... although i dont get it after 5 minutes, but when the stream starts. in fact, when i try to connect from outside the networ i get either this error, before a connection to the box has been made:

"Operation failed
Error: 0x9234006D"

or, sometimes this, after it made a connection and showed "pending" and right after "Starting stream" (but before picture gets through):

"Unable to connect to the Slingbox. Please check your network, firewall and router settings.
Error: 0x93200005"

Then again, sometimes it works without problems. Each of the 3 scenarious may happen multiple times within 30 seconds even, every time i try to connect - in no particular order - it's almost like rolling dice.

My router is a good ol standard Linksys WRT54g, v4 i think (cant check, since im 8.000 miles from home ;-) ). However - I think this problem just started, when I switched to Charter Media. Since they have about every friggin incoming standard port blocked, that servers use (21, 80, etc.) I wonder if they may have blocked some range that the box uses. I dont have this problem on the local network. I am quite network savvy myself, however - this scenario is a bit beyond me... although apps like remote desktop software and ftp for example, experience the same funkyness, when trying to get through to my workstation, acting a s a server. funny enough, it also seems random. the firewall i'd like to rule out, as its specifically set to exclude these programs from the block list.

If anyone has an idea wtf this might be caused by, I'd be more than happy to find out!

Thanks. rock on.

P.S.: I have cable and the box is connected to a box - though i really doubt that this has any effect on whats going on there.

February 17, 2007 7:10 PM

I just a bought a sling box pro and I get it instance. The odd thing is that I am sitting on my home network and I can ping the router via the DHCP address and it finds all the info like the ID, mac address and so on but if I just use the ID to find the box it just flips out and finds nothing. This is not the way I excepted this to work for a first time user.

December 31, 2007 12:29 AM

sling3g said: Have you tried switching ports?  It is not unusual for ISPs to block common ports.  The Slingbox default port may be on their block list.  My ISP is known for blocking some common server ports so I did not even try 5001 and started right from the beginning with a random high port number (which works fine).  Use some random number over 10,000 for example.

How do I tell SlingPlayer to use the different port number?