Hello,
I live in Spain. My Dad, in the UK, is now a proud owner of a Slingbox PRO. He has an ADSL connection with a wireless router from TalkTalk. This connection works fine - I know, because I have been over a few times with my laptop. Thing is, my Dad doesn't do computers.
The setup is quite simple, in theory. He has a coax cable coming out of the wall that is connected to a Digital Terrestrial antenna. The cable is free for me to use and the router is sitting in the vicinity. All I want on Spain is the Freeview UK stuff. No cable.
My older brother is at hand, but it also no real nerd.He could plug the box into to the router and the TV cable into the box, but I believe there is some configuring to do which might mean accessing the router's firewall. Not sureif there is a standard login/password for the talktalk box.
What is the best way to go about this, apart from my having to fly over and do it myself.
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Mooresville, NC, United StatesHave them load logmein.com or another remote control software on a computer at their location and you can do the setup yourself.
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ryandh said: Have them load logmein.com or another remote control software on a computer at their location and you can do the setup yourself.Thanks for the reply. That would be a possibility, yes. My question was more of a technical nature: I mean, do you need to log into the router to make firewall changes, or does it run out of the box?
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Mooresville, NC, United StatesIf UPNP is enabled they might be able to set it up without doing any technical setup. Some setups will also actually work without forwarding the port with some of Sling's recent changes too. I guess it depends on the equipment but there's no set list of what works and what doesn't. The default is plan on having to do port forwarding.
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