To use the Slingbox outside of your local area network, you may need to forward ports through your router. This guide will show you how to do just that. The first thing you need to do is open the SlingPlayer Setup Wizard.

We are looking for the Remote Viewing page that is displayed above. Go ahead and complete the pages of the wizard until you find the above page. Make sure the Check this box to watch your Slingbox outside of your home network checkbox is checked. Then click the Next button at the bottom of the page.

You should now be on the Router Configuration page. Put a dot into the Manual (advanced) radio button. We are going to manually forward the ports on your router, so we do not need to use UPnP. Go ahead and click the Next button at the bottom of the page.

Now you should find yourself on the Manual Network Setup page. This page is asking for an IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway. Go ahead and fill in these boxes now. Then click the Next button at the bottom of the page.

Now you should see the Port Settings page. This page has one Use port number box on it. You can use the default port of 5001, or you can change it to whatever port you want to use. This guide assumes that you used the default port of 5001. If you used some other port, you will need to take that into account as you follow the remainder of this guide. Once again click the Next button at the bottom of the page.

You should be looking at a window that displays the options you just setup. Go ahead and leave this window open and continue following this guide.

Open a web browser like internet explorer or Netscape. Enter the ip address of your router in the address bar of your browser. In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the ip address of your router. By default the ip address should be set to 192.168.1.1.

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default both the username and password are admin. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

Click the Applications & Gaming link near the top of the page.

You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click Single Port Forwarding or Port Range Forwarding.

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. SlingBox requires you to forward the 5001 ports. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Single Port Forwarding or Port Range Forwarding menu.

You should see another page of settings that need to be entered into one of the blank lines on your routers Single Port Forwarding or Port Range Forwarding page. Go ahead and enter those settings now.

When you're finished, click Save Settings near the bottom of the screen to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!

Now that you have finished forwarding ports on your router, make sure you complete the slingbox setup wizard. Once the wizard has been completed your new slingbox settings should take affect.