No, you don't. That's what your FinderID and the SlingFinder service are for. Your IP is reported to SlingMedia's servers. When you attempt to connect, SlingPlayer looks up your FinderID and current IP at SlingMedia. Whenever your IP changes, the servers at Sling are notified.

If you are having problems setting up remote connections (have you tried it), it's probably because the Speedstream modem is also set up as a router. One thing you can do is have Frontier put the modem in "Bridge" mode. That would be the easiest and best. They should be able to do that for you.

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Putting the modem into bridge mode, will not affect anything.

Here's something for you: See what the WAN IP is on your Linksys. If it begins with something like 10.0, 192.x, 127.x, or 169.x, then your DSL modem is acting as a router.

Bridge mode is best and like I say, your DSL provider should be able to do that.

If you are comfortable going into the DSL modem yourself, you might be able to figure out how to do that.

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OK. What you need to do then is set your Linksys router up to connect via PPPoE with the username and password you probably got from your ISP. So right now, the modem is doing all the connection login and so forth. You need to make the router do that when in bridge mode.

There is an alternative method that will also work. If you go into the modem's settings you should be able to set up a DMZ host. Put the WAN address of the Linksys router into this and enable it. What this will do then is direct all internet traffic w/o any firewalling to the Linksys. You then can control the portforwards and so forth from the Linksys. Since you are able to get into the modem, that then might be easiest for you, particularly if you don't know your username and passowrd for the PPPoE login.

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