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Slingbox SOLO w/ ASUS Wireless Bridge streaming TiVo Series3
Zatz Not Funny!

I agree. I do not think this is an issue with your Slingbox. Where are you trying to connect from? The error you are mentioning could be an issue with your home modem or router, OR you are at a location that limits bandwidth and your connection is being dropped because you are using to much in such a short span of time. The later can happen in hotels, at work, wireless connections away from home, or with some ISPs who limit bandwidth.

Jake

Actually in Slingbox's defense, I wouldn't say their setup is faulty, but actually really good.

Your problem could even go as far as your internet provider may not allow for third party (slingbox) systems to utilize a large amount of bandwidth for video streaming. When you are watching your MLB through the major league ticket, you are viewing it through your main ISP, not a second ISP just for the video streaming (which is what the slingbox does).

Maybe check to see if there is a port-forwarding issue. On my DSL router/modem from my slinging spot, I had a similar problem and it was a port forwarding issue. The only difference was, I was not able to connect remotely until I did the port forwarding.

All port forwarding does is assign a specific port in your router to be designated for a device. Basically how you would need to tell your firewall that a program is ok.

Slingmedia.com has a ton of information, step-by-step instructions on walking you through this. That is my suggestion, I could be wrong. But good luck because I know once you get it going you will be really satisfied with your slingbox.

From my experience, it works or it doesn't work. If it works for 5 minutes then your setup at home is ok. If it stops working, send the box back to the dealer and claim a new one. Eventually try to connect from a different remote computer (with a different ISP if possible - eventually ask a friend to try from his PC) as a test, but I doubt it will work.

MitchG said:

jfitzpa503 said: This is strange. You mentioned you have Bellsouth DSL. Please tell us how your network is set up. What is the make/model of your modem provided from Bellsouth? How old is that device? Do you have an additional router? Are you using any wired- or wireless-bridges, hubs, switches, etc.? You are correct in assuming that you do not have to adjust any settings away from home. Another question is, have you tried to connect to someone elses Slingbox while away from home? Have you called Sling support? The Slingbox is an awesome product, works as advertised and is amazing. Most do not have the same issues as you report. I hope we can all assist in resolving your issue.

Here is what Sling support told me on a help chat. Does this expaination mean anything to anyone?  Tech says he got same error as me (0x93200005) after the same 5 minutes I was getting the error.  Says I will need to be at home to configure my router manually with the IP address that the router will assign to the Slingbox under the DCHP Clients List and with port 5001 and protocols TCP/UDP and after that I run the network setings wizard.  Tells me it is crapping out after 5 mnutes because of the MTU size of my home location.  I could have sworn I already tried this, but who knows.  I thought when the wizard said your god to go, you were.  Guess not.

What it sounds like the Sling support suggested was going into your modem's settings and changing the port around.  I am assuming that all you have attempted to do is run the slingplayer/slingbox setup wizard.  Yes, this is all you should have to do, BUT, some modems (from your provider) does not allow for certain types of access to the internet.

 Just as jfitzpa503 suggested, put up some details about your modem, like the model number and what type it is.  

 What I am guessing is that you will have to log into your router, and setup the 5001 port to be connected to your slingbox.  If I am mistaken and you have already tried this I apologize, I am making the assumption a based on your statement of "I thought when the wizard said your good to go, you were."

Most likely you will either log into your router by going into your Internet Explorer (Firefox, Safari, what have you) and type either "192.168.1.1" - which is the standard home address for a modem.  OR, (in the case of some modems/routers) you will have to type in something like "router.login.com" or something, followed by entering in an Admin and Password.  If you have never done this before, chances are that your Admin is named "Admin" and your password is named "password" - I would call your service provider prior to doing so just to make sure.

From there, you will have to search for something like, "Port Triggering," Options, or even viewing what labels are on your network.  Since your modem sees your slingbox, because you can connect at home, there should be some sort of ISP designated to the slingbox (as well as a Mac address), from there you can usually go into some sort of "details" section even to access the information that will setup remote viewing for you.

To me what is sounds like is the Port Forwarding issue, because the Slingboxs has a parameter of ports it uses to send out its signal, where some modems automatically are configured to block those ports unless told otherwise, for security issues.

I hope that information helps.

Oh ok the Westell modem, I actually use the same DSL modem, only it is through Verizon.

This will help you out: http://support.slingmedia.com/get/KB-005344.html

Enter in that you have a Westell, and depending on the model number, those step-by-step instructions should get you to where you need to be. You will need the username and password to log into your actual Westell modem.