I am still debating what to move my TV service to now that there is no price advantage for Cox (HOA used to subsidize) and I got a flier from Dish stating they provide a Sling Link for free. VERY limited info on what this can pass from the router.

Anyone have any experience with these?

 

It looks like a glorified powerline ethernet adapter. (Ethernet over your home electrical wiring).

I don't have experience with the SlingLink itself, but I have a set of Actiontech powerline ethernet adapters and they work. Real world speed isn't anywhere near as advertised, as they were advertised to be capable of 85 megabits per second. Through my tests, I couldn't get any more than 20 megabits, but that's plenty of bandwidth for communication to/from the Internet and pulling HD video from my file server...etc., and then 20 megabits is pretty consistent.

It works. The only caveat is that you can't connect them to a surge protector or anything that cleans/conditions electricity (they won't work if you do).

 

So you can access music, video and picture files from your PC on the TV?

How about web browsing?

 

All the SlingLink does is bring a network connection to another room without having to physically run an Ethernet cable.

Think of it as an Ethernet switch or hub, except the "uplink" uses your home electrical wiring instead of an Ethernet cable.

 

Right, so the "Sender" is my desktop PC and the receiver of the data is ultimately the DVR box Dish provides? What can I send to the DVR box from the PC?