lynnmcl

Hi Forum guys n gals,

Have just came across this on the net, Does anyone have any further knowledge of this service, Does it work, How easy/hard is it to set up?

Might be of use if it actually works and you only go over to Turkey a couple of times throughout the year.


Thanking you in advance ;-)

Lynn.

http://alan.blog-city.com/remote_tv.htm

Martyn

Hi Lynn

Never heard of it through Skype. If you search for sling in the search facility at the top then you will pick up all the slingbox threads although this sounds something different. Paul Smith is a member on this forum and may be able to help you further with this.

superbob

slingbox is a device which streams TV over a broadband connection to anywhere in the world (eg UK to turkey). Can be connected to SKY or cable, but comes with freeview anyway.

A free PC based alternative is Orb, does much the same but requires a host PC to be left on.

Skype is a VOIP internet phone service.

jnj

We are relocating to Turkey next year and the slingbox looks great. We will set it up on our daughter's sky system. Will it affect what she watches, ie will we be able to watch Sky News in Turkey, whilst she at home in UK is watching Sky Sports? for example.

Karyn UK

You can only watch what is being watched on the sky box you are streaming from. You can change the channel though and that really annoys my daughter when I do it from Turkey!

Slingbox is not the easiest thing in the world to set up and it can be moody and a lot depends on the router you are using. I get reasonable streaming at 340-360 kbps in Turkey via an airties modem. I mainly use it to watch the news.

I would imagine that the only way to watch a different Sky channel to the one your daughter is watching is to pay for her to have sky multiroom (£99 for the box and £10 a month subscription) and then run the slingbox through her second sky box. Having coughed up for the Slingbox and the SKy multiroom you are better of getting Digiturk, its cheaper.

K

no-nem

I would certainly agree with Karyn, by the time you have fannied around with 'gadgets' that may or may not be suitable, go and get digiturk.

superbob

the slingbox has an internal freeview tuner, so watching these channels will not affect your daughter SKY.
If you allow the changing of SKY channels (not freeview) it obviously will. Best bet is a £10 multiroom subscription and sky box off ebay (under £30)

superbob

whats the dish size to get SKY News from it's various satellite transmissons?

PAUL SMITH

Guys and Girls,

You can use an additional Sky box for connection to your Slingbox if you wish by running it independently from your dish with the use of a twin output LNB (if you have Sky Plus, there will be 2 ports free) The Uk version of the Slingbox does have a Freeview receiver DVB -T tuner built in and unless you don't have Digital reception problems this is a good choice. Note, not everywhere has complete Freeview coverage like where I live near Banbury, Oxfordshire so a Sky connection will work in this case.

I have one set up here and it works fine BUT... streaming paid programming is not permitted by BSkyB. It's only Free To View channels from a Freesat Sky box system.

Regards
BSkyB registered accredited retailer and installer.