Dish Remote Access / Sling

JFaber99 said:

Log into sling(dot)com and you will have a web based sling player. If your on a work computer you will still need rights to install the plug-ins. But if you have rights and use the web based version your software (Singplayer) won't stick out like a sore thumb on their audits, but your bandwidth usage will. If your company doesn't monitor or your on a home computer the Slingplayer is a better peice of software.

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Camdog916 said:

ISo basically it can't find the internet from my work which sucks cause I am on the net all day long at work. I guess they just block it some how.

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Camdog916 said:

I can't access my sling box from work. Every time I launch sling player it says "Slingplayer can't connect to sling services, so some features ma be limited. You can still use slingplayer within your home network." So basically it can't find the internet from my work which sucks cause I am on the net all day long at work. I guess they just block it some how.

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BuddyBoy said:

Unless your employer is totally irresponsible, they likely don't allow all types of outgoing traffic. You need to find out which destination ports are allowed, and use one of those to get to your Slingbox. For instance, my employer only allows outgoing traffic to ports 80(http) and 443(https), and even then, it filters some sites (patent web sites, P2P (Bittorrent) sites, and sites hosting spyware/viruses are blocked). I use port 443, and configured my Slingbox and firewall to open those ports, and I can get at my Slingbox from work no problem.

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