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Eircom Zytel + Port Forwarding for a slingbox

  • 11-02-2012 1:49pm
    #1
    DavisBXL
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭


    I dont see any previous threads on this 'new' Eircom modem and how to set it up to allow a slingbox to broadcast outside of the LAN, so I'm going to ask for help from anyone who knows how.

    Eircom lumped us with this cheap as chips looking Zytel 660HW a while back after our old one broke. Im not in a position to buy a different one right now. The slingbox works itself, but im presuming port forwarding is blocked on the new modem. It may sound like I know what that means, but I haven't the foggiest.

    Logging in to the Zytel admin page within a browser is fine, but I cannot get the supposedly 'easy' slingbox setup service to play nice with it: i.e. slingbox software prompts me to log in to zytel which constantly fails (it requires a username Im not aware of, despite knowing the password - no success with using default usernames).
    So I tried manual setup within slingbox, but it doesn't behave as it says it will in the help video (instead of seeing a 2-frame browser window - one with the Zytel admin page and a second side frame with the correct slingbox settings to be copied in - I just get the Zytel admin page on its own...basically back to square one).

    Ive tried changing this myself manually as admin, under NAT > Port Forwarding. But the suggestions on portward.com don't work because Zytel won't let me enter user-defined 5001 port forwarding with a server IP address of 0.0.0.0. - it gets stuck and says IP format error !

    Does anyone have any experience with this? It's driving me nuts!

    Thanks a million


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  • #2
    xsiborg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    dave, enter the IP address of the slingbox, which usually defaults itself to 192.168.1.254... ;)

    EDIT: that page is RIDICULOUSLY old, the new firmware in the slingbox will allow you to do a proper manual setup, and if i was you, i'd press the reset button on the router first and i think the default password then is 1234, oh, and have you checked if you're running the latest firmware on the router?


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