Slingbox with DM7025: some problems

[shumifan50]

This might not be the right place for this post - please move if required.

I bought a Slingbox Classic on fleabay. It works fine on my local LAN, but I want to be able to stream F1 racing to my mate in NZ, which is why I bought the Slingbox.
Problem:
I can't get the SB to take my network settings.
The remotes are for E1 boxes only - no E2 remotes in Slingbox list. (not too important as have web interface).

Setup:
Tenda router supplying DHCP server.
Cisco837 router to connect to internet.
Netgear Gigabit switch.
Slingbox classic with latest firmware updates and player plugged into netgear switch. Cisco and Tenda connected to netgear switch.

The problem:
I go to 'setup internet viewing' in the setup assistant and change the IP, gateway, DNS etc on the SB. When I hit next it then tries to check whether the internet setup works - this fails and which ever option I then take causes the settings I have made to be discarded.
I have no free ports ion the Cisco to plug the SB directly into it and a temp test 'borrowing' a port made no difference.
I have set up what I think is a DHCP server on the Cisco, but the SB will not use it/it is not working. I am not an IOS expert, so it might well be the DHCP server is set up incorrectly.

Any help greatly appreciated. This weekend is the next race and I would like to help my mate in NZ. (They broadcast F1 on sub TV only in NZ).

 

[td03-5]

Hi @shumifan50,


It's some time now since I set up my Slingbox Classic but I don't remember carrying out the setup you are trying. I think I remember that the Slingbox setup has some sort of uPnP or 'set the router up for you' type of settings. I ignored all of these!

If your Slingbox Classic has a LAN IP (Which I assume it must have as you say it works over the LAN) then all you need to do is set up Port Forwarding for incoming requests on Port 5001 to be routed to the Slingbox LAN IP. You will also need to ensure that the Slingbox always gets the same IP allocated by the router DHCP server. I use 'Address Reservation' in my Netgear DG834G.

Then, when remote, you enter your DynDNS Domain Name or Fixed ISP IP into the Slingbox Directory. At the bottom of the panel Check the 'For remote connection........etc.' box and enter DN or fixed IP in box below. Leave port as 5001.

Hope this is of some help?

Best wishes, John.

 

[shumifan50]

That is what I expected, however, I didn't have a spare port on the Cisco(internet) router, so the slingbox was connected through a switch and this seems to confuse it when it decides which gateway to use. It seems to always get it wrong.

Thanks for your thoughts though. I finally got it working bushuffling some connections and setting the Cisco up as the DHCP server. What also helped is that I still had the Classic CD and installed the player from there and it allowed me to control the network setup directly without trying to be clever.

 

[td03-5]

Hi @shumifan50,

Glad you've got it sorted. Mine is a simple single router system but so long as you know the IP of the Slingbox however its connected then the static port forwarding from the internet connected router should work. All IPs on the network would have to be allocated by the one DHCP server in the internet connected router though (I think!).

Best wishes, John.