One of the beauty's about the Slingbox is it's ability to stream video around your WIFI network, and more potentially accessing it remotely via some router changes.

Router Settings

So, first off log into your router with your internet browser...

http://192.168.1.1

Enter your admin username + password and get into the system.

Now first off you need to put the Slingbox into the DMZ (demilitarized zone), basically in front of the firewall so that you can connect to it remotely in cyberspace.

So with a belkin router, click [firewall], then [dmz]

Now add a static ip entry for your slingbox, like...

public ip : 82.23.44.92
static ip : 192.168.1.237

So in the first line of the DMZ screen it will show your router's currently assigned IP address, on the right it will list static ip's assigned to devices within your network that you want out in the open.

Because the Slingbox uses the default IP of 192.168.1.237, we set the first line to : 192.168.1.237 or 237

Hit save, now you need to setup a port for the slingbox.

So click [firewall], then [virtual servers]

Now add an entry for your slingbox's internal port.

lan ip address: 192.168.1.237
protocol type: TCP
lan port: 5001
public port: 5001
enable: tick this

make sure the entries are correct and you've ticked [enable], click [set] and you're done!

Your Slingbox is now available online.

So open your slingbox software, click [get info] and tick [access remotely], enter your router's ip address (from the DMZ screen, public ip or in this case 82.23.44.92) and the port 5001, click [save] and sit back and watch TV from your slingbox anywhere in the world.

Further Note

You can also apply this to other devices such as if you are like me and buy an ICYBOX NAS enclosure with a BitTorrent tool in it, by putting it in the DMZ it then has free access to the internet and you can load up torrent files into it and leave it to download them for you.

Nothing illegal mind, for me it's Fedora 9.

;-)

Take care,

Leopard HowTo

First in [Finder], press [command] + K to open the [Connect to Server] box.

Then type your network share's ip address, e.g.

smb://192.168.1.99

Now click [Connect], and you're off.

Belkin Router Problems + Finding the Box

Now recently I got a new ICYBOX IB-N4220-B NAS Enclosure which I now have running as a RAID 1 Array for my own networked WIFI storage, was a bit of a pain with my Belkin router.

Reason being when hooked up there's no real way of testing to see which IP address it's set to on bootup, the supplied CD comes with a tool the find it but that only works on Windows, and didn't work on Vista.

So I hunted around, apparently when it starts up it chooses any IP address in the network starting at 192.168.1.1, and because my Belkin Router had a default setup set to 192.168.2.1 it couldn't find itself.

So setting the Router to 192.168.1.1 meant the NAS drive could then work more happily with the router, picking the next obvious IP down the line, being 192.168.1.2

Finding it's IP then was dead easy, accessed the Router by typing...

http://192.168.1.1

Then logging in, navigating in the menubar, clicking 'DHCP Client List'. From there it listed all the devices currently connected to the Router, one was my MacBook, the other the NAS drive.

So using that I accessed the NAS drive with...

http://192.168.1.2

Logged in and then set it to use a particular IP all the time so I could always find it.

Then used the above commands in Finder to hookup the drive to my MacBook.

Job Done!

Decided to push the envelope a bit more and give my experimental web apps a little bit more power under the hood, 512mb can be a strain.

So today we're running under a 1GB Slice from SliceHost + nightly backups.

Big difference.

P.S.

This is for my mum, she like Mr Walken. cool cat.