Hello, thank you for replying so quickly. Well, that is the thing, it never does even out; When I first turn it on, it says Optimizing at the bottom, then it shows the name of my SB and says Streaming. But the video and audio continue to stutter. I tried several times last night and I even changed the encoding to custom and upped the fps of the video. I went up as high as my availalbe bandwidth. The video got smoother but the audio was still choppy.

Am I correct in that I need to keep my cable box on all the time? When I use it with my actual TV and turn everything off with the remote, the cable box has a light that comes on called ByPass. Then when I turn it on to watch TV that goes off. I have been leaving the cable box turned on (so that light called ByPass is now off) so that I could use it with SB.

There is no actual remote for my model of cable box, which is a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3100. So I am just using the remote for the Scientific Atlanta Explorer (no number). Could that be the reason, that the remote is not correct? But when I click the icon at the bottom of the screen for the little TV with the "R" on it, everything becomes very quickly smooth and perfect and my channels change very quickly. I was hoping I could just leave it in that mode.

I just tried this again now; after rebooting my router, same thing. It is almost as if my controls are backwards from what they should be. When it says Streaming at the bottom, the gauge at the right showing the streaming kbps goes up and down, varying greatly. But when I click on the Control Mode icon, the video/audio is very smooth and the Slingstream gauge is evened out also - staying within several hundred kbps.

One last thing, should I have BOTH the RCA composite cables AND the S-Video cable attached to my cable box to the Slingbox? I do have both connected, but this problem also when I only had the composite cables alone attached.