Originally Posted by snap  In theory The Slingbox is a good idea, but in practice it's really only going to work if:
-you have a broadband connection with no or very high usage limit
-you have a second home in another country
-have friends, or family who are happy to have a second receiver in the house, using a large part of their upstream bandwidth
-a spare port on a twin or quad Lnb or a spare terrestrial aerial feed.
-a completely reliable broadband connection at the remote and receiving end |
It might be interesting to do some arithmetics and calculate the cost of the broadband services on the send and receive ends per month and the extra hardware needed and compare it to the cost of a rather large dish including installation in a fringe area in order to receive those channels.