Slingbox

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chef replied

5 May 2009, 13:07
dongle on german account as my uk dongle costs £1.50 per Mb when used outside of the uk. Address is required (but no proof needed), no german bank account as it's pay as you go 4.95€ per 24 hrs usage.

My router in the uk has a 2Mb upload speed, I'm averaging around 500-750 kb/s download on the voafone usb dongle, picture quality is perfectly acceptable.

I also get a perfectly reasonable picture on my Sony Ericsson Xperia phone with just a 3G signal.
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BoredBloke replied

5 May 2009, 09:13
Originally posted by chef View Post

yup, I set mine up 2 weeks ago and it works perfectly fine even on a standard usb vodafone dongle. No more crappy german tv

I thought the data throughput limits on those things were really low. How much data does it use? I'd imagine lots
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expat replied

5 May 2009, 09:10
Originally posted by chef View Post

yup, I set mine up 2 weeks ago and it works perfectly fine even on a standard usb vodafone dongle. No more crappy german tv

Dongle on UK account or German account?

If former, how much does it cost for usage in Germany? If latter, I suppose one needs German address and bank account?
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chef replied

30 April 2009, 09:36
it hardwires to your video inputs i.e sky, dvd, HTPC, bluray etc. then connect it either wired or wirelessly to the router, i have mine wired but it works wirelessly aswell..

see here
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Ken Dodd replied

30 April 2009, 09:01
wiring

Been considering a slingbox but need to know how it is wired:

Does it hard wire to sky and the broadband router, or is it wireless?

If it needs to hardwire to both it may not work for me - sky is downstairs and router is upstairs.

An explanation would be gratefully received.
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cojak replied

27 April 2009, 09:49
Is that one of those "net bombs" that a Times article was on about?
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chef replied

27 April 2009, 09:10
yup, I set mine up 2 weeks ago and it works perfectly fine even on a standard usb vodafone dongle. No more crappy german tv
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BoredBloke started a topic Slingbox

27 April 2009, 07:31
Slingbox

I took the plunge and bought one this weekend and I must admit I'm impressed. Worked pretty much out of the box. Sod this iplayer malarky - even if you drop the bitrate down to like 300k a sec it's still watchable. I was quite suprised that in the cr@ppy hotel I'm staying in, my slingbox worked fine but Skype struggled (tried to use skype before I connected to my slingbox)
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