I've been using my slingbox since 2005 and it works great.
The box is in Calgary and I'm in Tokyo.
Having a good upload connection speed for the slingbox is probably the most important consideration.
The latest versions (2.0) of the windows slingplayer software are buggy and messy.
I find the connection speed is much more important for the recent versions than it was with previous versions.
I have a newish PC (i7 CPU) and still had trouble with slingplayer 2.0.
I have reverted to using slingplayer ver. 1.5 becuase its very stable and can connect even on a slower speeds.
If you have trouble with slow connection speeds try the older slingplayer versions.
I got slingplayer 1.04 to run on a 10 year old Toshiba Portege laptop and it works great.
Older slingplayer versions don't have the latest bells and whistles but it works well - the new version doesn't work as well for me.
|