Eti
slut? Paging Dr. Freud..!
I don't know much about the Slingbox, but I do know that Etisalat are not friendly to odd uses of their internet connections. You can't talk to machines on their network from the wider Internet - they use NAT to give users an "internal only" IP address, so anything you connect up there is not actually
on the Internet. (That's how it was on my last visit, to friends a year ago, and I have no reason to believe they've relaxed anything.)
Unless you can find someone in Dubai who has one up and accessible, I'd be wary about buying one. There are some reports that people can "sling"
out of Dubai to Slingboxes in e.g. the USA, but that's a different question.
Edit: I've just looked at the Slingbox remote viewing setup instructions. They talk about making home NAT router changes (port forwarding) to allow access from the Internet - but on Etisalat broadband, it's
their router, you have no control over it. In other words, I think you're out of luck. Hey, Dubai's not a democracy, you know...
