Hi

I live in Dubai, and have 2 slingboxes configured in the UK. One is in my home, and the other at my mothers house (about 20 miles apart!), both hooked up via the same ISP. She has satellite, I have freeview, and there is of course, an element of 'redundancy' built in.

The one at my house works fine. All correctly port forwarded etc. The one at her house does not.

It's fine on her LAN, and (strangely) fine when I connect to it via a VPN line routing through the USA. However, when I directly connect from Dubai, I get the connection (and I can, for example, use the remote control), but the streaming doesn't happen (it says 2kbs and provides no picture).

Her side of things is all correctly port forwarded and I switched her to a static IP. My router at this end is certainly not doing anything strange to block her, and neither is the software firewall at this side (I've 3 PC's, none of them work!). Both router and firewall pick up with the slingbox at my house, and both work with hers when it comes (painfully slow of course) via the VPN.

So - it must be that the ISP here (Du) is blocking streaming from the IP address that my mother is connected to. She has a static address of 80.xxx.xxx.xxx. At my house, its 81.xxx.xxx.xxx (we have different types of accounts, with the same provider). UAE ISP's do block some sites for cultural reasons but streaming from Northamptonshire?!

Do you think it could be anything else? I would love to fix this. I'd like to watch Sky Movies!!!

 Cheers

James