slingbox?
 

has anybody tried this ? http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php would this be good in the rig?

Re: slingbox?
 

BEFORE you buy and gadgets that you think u may need during "down-time". Drive for a couple of months. You'll soon see you will have very little time for anything other than the essentials:
Driving
Sleeping
Eating
Showering
Working
A laptop with a wireless card is your best bet and many times will be your only friend. It has a MULTITUDE of uses on the road. You'll see.

we have a sling box. They work great , but alot of the connections you find out there are slow. Don't expect it to work very good at anywhere but a flying j truckstop. The problem with them is 4.95 for 24hrs is a misleading sales thing. Its not unlimited but measured in info bits, so the tv will work for about an hour? Most truck stops have a slow connection and it wont work at all. You will also need an unlimited wireless card from a phone company. And the only one who has true unlimited wireless minutes is sprint. The rest also use unlimited minutes as information bits, not a time frame.

sorry when I read my post even I found it confusing. You don't need (as in must have for it to work) a wireless card from sprint. It only works well with one of those. I don't think you will find fast enough Internet otherwise. If you have a sling-box and decent Internet speeds, you can not beat it. We love ours

Slingbox works very well for me. It is the best thing in the world.

Here is the solution I found. Thanks to my buddy who is a tech geek.

I am currently using Cingular for my cellphone provider. I bought this laptop card called Sierra Wireless 860 aircard on the internet ( www.unlockcellular.com ). It works perfect. I can connect internet and watch my TV anywhere also my Tivo programs thru my Slingbox (the best thing in the world). Connection is very fast over 1Mbps. You only need 300kbps speed to watch slingbox remotely.

The aircard is only $99, no contract required, which is good. It is only $59.99 a month for Cingular data plan. It is unlimited.

The aircard can also works with T-Mobile (the seller told me it is unlocked card). T-Mobile data plan is cheaper though only $29.99 unlimited. But I like Cingular better.

PM me if you have any question.

thanks for the reply still looking

SlingBox
 

SlingBox is okay but if you already have a laptop, and if you don't, you should considering it is a 100% TAX write off, then I suggest leaving your TV at home.

Most everyone I talk to always says they don't have enough storage space as it is. Throw the TV out the window and take a look into this. It's the best investment I have ever made for my truck, and I am writing it off on my taxes as well because it has news and weather for routing purposes.

Its Satellite TV for your PC with 4000 channels. And no, its not a membership or subsciption service that you have to pay monthly fees. I paid $99.95 for the software, downloaded it, installed it and started watching TV just like that.

I got News, Weather, Movies, Radio Stations, Educational stuff, Shopping, Kids programming, Sports ( I never miss a football game anymore because I'm not at home or the dang truckstops won't turn it on )

Anyhow, heres a link to the site.

Http://www.SatelliteTVOnMyPC.com

Oh yeah, almost forgot, I also got one of those $59.00 home theater systems from walmart on my truck with 2 tiny speakers and I put the subwoofer under my bunk. Hooked it up to my computer and it makes the movies sound awesome and the radio stations Rock!

Re: SlingBox
 

The poster fails to mention that most of the channels that you'll receive are crap. They also fail to mention the fact that you need high-speed internet to watch streaming video.

If anyone buys this, I'm going to hunt you down and pee in your fuel tanks!!!

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:shock: :shock: :shock:

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Yeah, I did forget you have to have a pretty good connection, but I've really never had a problem with just a wifi connection. As far as the channels go, well, I don't know about you but come football season I'm watching all the games no matter where I'm at and I dont have to pay for any sports packages. It was the main reason I ended up buying the software. I hate not being able to watch football in the truckstops cause they won't turn to the dang station.

Anyhow, call me stupid, but I know you have to have high speed connect to watch tv at the other end of the slingbox. Plus it's a pain in the butt to hook up if you are behind a firewall or a router at home. I just dont think they are worth the cash - yet, give them a few years. Some of those things sell for like $300 bucks depending on what model and brand you get.

GREAT!!!!! Ive been looking for some software which will allow me to watch 1000s of channels in other countries in a language that I cant understand. Ive heard Bulgaria has some great sitcoms!

ROFLMFAO!!!

Re: SlingBox
 

SPAM SPAM SPAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This guy is soooooo full of :dung:

THIS SERVICE SUCKS.... I KNOW I WASTED $50.00

If you enjoy news clips.... there is NO streaming video from any tv station it is all video clips of CRAP!!!

slingbox
 

we just got the slingbox and are quite happy with it finally we can enjoy the cable tv we pay for every month and were only home 4 days a month to enjoy it

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don't pee in my fuel tanks....I downloaded a cracked version of the software from demonoid.. and tried it for free.....you're 100 right--nothing but crap channels(if you could call them channels) and shitty hangup video(slow streaming speed)

Hey, I'm gonna get a slingbox---
can someone tell me---- can I watch one channel out here remotely(slinged) and what happens if my Wife changes the channel on the dishnetwork receiver back home?? other words can we watch different channels??? at the same time- without a remote control WAR or will I have to again pay an additional $5.00 for a seperate receiver-- which I could always mount anyway here n the truck and skip the slingbox.

yes you need a second box if ya dont wanna battle over stations

Well I got a slingbox and hooked it up last couple nights- in eager anticipation of of the upcoming start of Battlestar Galactica final season- can't say I'm very impressed with the remote streaming via Cingular/AT&T aircard GPRMS/EDGE- atleast right here in my own darn backwoods location-

seems a -80dBm(3 bars) isn't enought to keep the video from hanging up- pathetically - Guess I'll have to hope for a 3mbps( 3G) connection-- right place/right time.

an update on my slingbox connection via AT&T aircard with Wilson Antenna connected.

well with all 5 bars(signal) the slingbox works/plays video for me without hanging up....usually reads 150kbps-180kbps sometimes spikes to 200kbps- the resolution is low res- but you can makeout a pretty good general idea of what's going on.

On a side note-- with a LAN WI-FI connection-- it works awsome- with 1200-1900 kbps streaming speed.

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are you saying that with the tax write off it's free....!!

I was thinking, if it still doesn't work out very well for watching tv remotely- I might just bring it out on the truck with me and hook it up to a camera- and stream live video out to whomever wanted to watch me go down the road...or i should say--watch the mile posts go by.

Having a problem with mine-- I can't find it( remotely --via the internet) .. don't know why it suddenly quit working...guess I'll have to trouble shoot it when I get home.

Does anyone use TV tuner USB cards with ther laptops? If so how do they work?

After 10 months on the road, trying to watch TV on my laptop using my aircard (AT&T) once in a blue moon when I have a strong-enough 3G signal that it actually works, I finally broke down this week and ordered a Diamond ATSC HDTV usb tuner for my laptop. I go back out tomorrow for a couple of weeks and will try to remember to give a report on how well it works for me.

I had to get a Cardbus USB2 adapter since my Dell Inspiron is an older model that only has USB1.1 onboard, so that increased the price a little. Even so, the tuner (approximately thumbdrive form factor) plus adapter only ran about $100, and I don't have to carry yet another appliance in the truck.

I used to run a tv tuner in my truck. It worked fine, but most of the time I'm in areas that are lucky to have a telephone, let alone any tv channels I could pick up.

Besides, almost everything I watch is on HBO, Showtime, Discovery or History channels, so the tuner didn't help out.

The tuner did fine though. I had no issues with it. If your laptop is a little old, the picture may be a little jumpy. My laptop was a 2ghz AMD and the picture was perfect.

Got my sling box working again. Funny thing is- I was out on the road and called the little mrs. and was trying to trouble shoot the problem on the phone. I was accusing the (grown adult- child- still freeloading off us) of messing with the router-- as he often claims my Slingbox hogs all the bandwidth on our broadband. I remember specifically asking her to track down the ethernet cable and let me know if it was unplugged or something. I assumed she'd notice the fact that the cable was damaged where it got shut in the door jam repeatedly. But guess not! Anyway, I drilled a hole in the wall and passed it through there-- another somewhat better temp solution. But it works again!

I have one of those....too bad they don't make an income from blowing up terrorist :rolleyes:

and World of Warcraft, Halo, and all the others....and GuitarHero

Hey, just got an update of the Slingbox Software.. this Version 2 makes the image quality much better-- and since they've increased the slight delay ( so you can pause the "live" tv- rewind it- and all that-- the video streaming is improved as well. No more-- hanging up when you have a weak aircard signal- it's still not the greatest-- but a great improvement. :D

malakai

have you tried orb? check out the hardware requirements listed under download. it's not for everyone, but it's free. ;)