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Slingbox sucks

December 24, 2009 on 6:57 pm | 5 Comments

I bought a slingbox early this year. Watch and control your sky/cable box over the internet from anywhere in the world. Great!

After a couple months of using it, it started to play up, not connecting to the network and such like. Usually a reset would fix this.

About 9 months on and the box now refuses to connect to the network and won’t even reset. Before contacting Sling Media for support, I take a look around online and found forums full of people with the same problem. A hardware issue that means replacing the unit. Sigh, not ideal. After leaving it plugged in (not working) for a few weeks, I came back and now no lights come on. The unit is dead.

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