moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD | Hmmmm....
Wonder what this will do to older Sling products and if they will be supported. |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
| As of right now it seems like it will be similar to the Dell / Alienware deal. EchoStar buys out Sling but it's yet to be seen if it will really change anything.
They did say they were keeping all of the Sling top-people in place, so as of right now i'm guessing there'll be very little change, if any. |
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Mechano
join:2004-05-30
Antarctica | reply to moonpuppy
Aren't they supposed to work by accessing the IP directly ?
I think you can bypass the servers if you have the IP or Dyndns in place...For future products....well, that may be another thing. |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC
| said by Mechano  :I think you can bypass the servers if you have the IP or Dyndns in place...For future products....well, that may be another thing. Huh? Slingplayers don't connect to any servers. They act as servers. If you're on the same LAN they directly connect. If you want to access it from the web, you need to open a port on your firewall and you access it via your WAN IP. |
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acs12798
join:2006-03-13
| Hes talking about the Slingplayer DNS server. You know your SlingFinder ID? You Slingbox reports its IP address to a server Sling maintains. The Slingplayer connects to that server, and finds your IP from that Server based on your Slingfinder ID. He is talking about the ability to connect a slingbox via direct IP, which is also possible. |
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