GEOSATpro Receivers Officially Supported by Slingbox
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You don't fly. Airports, where you can waste hours of time, is a prime location to access your slingbox via the airport free wifi on your full screen PC.
Where on planet Earth have you found free wifi at an airport. My many trips from 2001 to 2008 the cost to connect at ANY airport was sky high. I never connected at any airport due to the crazy cost.RT.
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My local airport has free wifi. I see it all the time on the billboard with the prices to various places.
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Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Tokyo in public areas. Most airlines' lounges have free wifi.
I dont know what slingbox is or what it does but anything added to a new FTA model that's not out there in the market is a plus!! Good Job!!
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Almost all airports have free wifi now.
I guess the Slingbox would also be a great way to show people what FTA satellite has to offer when you are away from home.
I was down by PDX, in the driveway and got WiFi. We do not fly very often so I can not say. If there is a hotel at the airport, I have logged onto some hotel WiFi from 1 1/2 blocks away... I am quite sure my speeds would not be high enough for slingbox here, I wish it were high enough for streaming.
No, actually Gorgenet. I could get Comcast for $80/mo. but that would be dial up. Satellite says they will give me service - but you can not get VOIP on satellite. Gorgenet piuts the VOIP on priority, so at least I am supposed to have a telephone!
of course there is a catch. I have a SB HD Pro but there will will be no HD from the MicroHD for the SlingBox. I believe the MicroHD only ouputs HD thru the HDMI and the SlingBox has no HDMI input. So it's limited to the composite connection only.
Bandwidth out is only about 40KB/s so I guess a slingbox here is not going to go much farther than the local network. My local WIFI is wireless G so would almost be worth while getting one for setting up the dish etc... the Slingbox that is... the Micro-HD is a no-brainer, will have one on order once they are available.
An HDMI to Component adapter will provide the component connection. Cost approximately $4 - $7 on Ebay.
Just happen to be at a Hampton tonight and no problem streaming from any of my dishes to the computer here
I read this weekend that the Optibox line of FTA receivers (Gekko, Anaconda, Raptor) also now support the Slingbox.
I am not finding the Optibox on the Slingbox site. Maybe it has been built as a custom that a user has created?
The GEOSATpro had also been available as a custom device built by a customer for several years, but not available through Slin Media and available to every device.
The GEOSATpro had also been available as a custom device built by a customer for several years, but not available through Slin Media and available to every device.
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