Longtime slinger
I have had a sling box since their first box, which I still have, and it works fine. Also have a newer Singbox HD Pro.
This product requires Internet/ wifi skills. From time to time you will have to configure your router to enable it to communicate with your sling box. But, the product works beautifully, and delivers full cable service anywhere you have web service. You can allow any friend, someone traveling perhaps in a remote, no tv available, location to access your box and watch your full cable offering. I recently did this for a law partner, while he was stuck in a remote rural Chinese town.
Even though you can now get other TV content over the web, including select cable offerings, nothing yet replaces sling box, as most of these others will be blocked when you are out of the US.
Gshenry about
SlingPlayer for iPhone, v3.8.44