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The slingbox is a little deceptive where on the side of the box it says it can connect to your 802.11a/b/g home network. It is true but you need a wireless adapter to plug into your slingbox to make it wireless. Here is how I made mine wireless. First you need to update your WRT54G/GS with DD-WRT. One of the newest features available in the administrator console in dd-wrt v23 is wireless bridging. Here is the setup.

cable modem –> netgear

SSID: homenet

IP: 192.168.1.1

DHCP server giving out addresses 192.168.1.2 - 192.168.1.51

WRT54G running DD-WRT V23

IP: 192.168.1.52

On the WRT54G router login to Admin and goto Wireless tab.

Set the Wireless Mode to Client Bridged and set your SSID to homenet.

Goto Wireless Security and setup the same security as the netgear (WEP, WPA, none).

Apply all your changes and reboot the WRT54G.

It might take 30 seconds or so to get a connection.

Now you should be bridged wireless from the WRT54G to the netgear router in this case.

Next plug in your slingbox into one of the WRT54G LAN ports.

Since the netgear is the DHCP server and it is giving out addresses not in the range of the default slingbox address (192.168.1.237) I changed my slingbox IP address to 192.168.1.7 and setup my netgear to give the MAC address of my slingbox 192.168.1.7 everytime. On the netgear this is done under the LAN IP Setup tab.

Then I setup port forwarding on the netgear to port 5001 and IP 192.168.1.7. This is done under the Port Forwarding/Port Triggering tab.