Posts Tagged ‘stupid network’

Pants on fire

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Slingbox: YOU MUST HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION TO PROCEED WITH INSTALLATION
Yoshi: Um… I AM on the internets.
Slingbox: NO YOU AREN’T, LOLS
Yoshi: This icon in the corner? That is my network. It says I can has internets.

Why does my Slingbox think I am a liar? All I want to do is tap into my replacement Slingbox so I can finish configuring it. I should be able to just do this LAN-only, but noooo, they want me to log into my (Also it forced me to patch, but because SOLO-series use different firmwares, it appears to be safe from the dreaded brickware on the Pro units. Just to be safe, I’m doing mine first before I add in mother’s.)

Argh, finally it lets me in. All seems well, now I just need to beat mother’s wireless bridge into submission. @_@