I was just on a cruise for the past week. I brought my
laptop along and patched into the ship's available WiFi
connection.
I met a couple that also brought their laptop along on
their vacation, but for entirely different reasons....
....they wanted to watch their cat at home.
They told me about a device called
Slingbox which
allowed them to plug in their videocamera at home and view
the feed from any Internet connection thousands of miles away.
When I got home I looked closer at this product and was
intrigued to find that it did soooo much more than what this
couple was letting on.
I could actually watch and control my Tivo programs or any
other media hookup to my home system while away with my
laptop as long as I had an Internet connection.
This thing looks absolutely cool and I am very close to
purchasing.
One question to anyone that owns this device...
It looks as if you need to have your slingbox device near
your router in order to hook it up via ethernet cable.
This is not the case with me. My wireless router is
in another room.
What do I need to hook up to the slingbox ethernet
plug to transmit the signal to my wireless Belkin router
in the adjoining room?
