When you say "Slingbox does work", can you be more specific? The question was about having the Slingbox
inside on the Etisalat network, viewing stuff on it from
outside on the Internet. We know it works in the opposite direction, or if you have both Slingbox and Player on the same network.
If it's a NAT connection, you can't get in from outside without making changes. What IP address would you enter in the Slingbox Player? Etisalat's NAT setup (as my friends had) means you have multiple households on the same IP address, and no access to make the changes that the Slingbox Player requires. So, if I was in that situation, I would need to know that I was not behind NAT that I have no control over.
If unsure, a quick way is to compare the IP address that your connection has (run "ipconfig" or check your broadband router) with the address that other sites think you have (e.g.
here). If they look totally different, you're behind NAT.