movieguy711 said: so, just so I get this straight, if I have a PC that is connecting to the internet through my home network router and then I take a crossover cable and run it from the ethernet port on the back of that PC and run it to my Slingbox, (assuming all of my other settings and port forwarding is correct...I'll deal with that later) then my Slingbox should be connected to the network, right?

movieguy711, so I assume you are connecting wirelessly on the laptop and plugging in the network cable on your laptop to the Slingbox?

This should work, but you may want to consider a bridge or modified router to do this. I use a WRT54G, with DD-WRT in bridged mode and it works great.

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May I ask you why you want to connect the slingbox via your computer and not directly to the router? In my opinion that is the source of your problem, since presumably you use internet connection sharing to do that. However ICS is nothing else than your computer pretending to be a router, so if fact this means that your slingbox is behind two routers (i.e. double NAT-ed). No wonder the remote viewing does not work. I would suggest you simplify your setup - connect slinbox directly to your normal router and port forward TCP port 5001 to it. This should make your remote viewing work. Once you test it and verify it works, buy yourself a wifi bridge/adapter so that the slingbox can be placed anywhere in the house.