The IKSlinger (also known as simply the "Slinger") is a special device available for FTA testers using genuine provider supplied satellite receivers, like those used by Dish Network, Bell ExpressVU, DirecTV and others. This special device enables these receivers to receive codewords to open channels for viewing that are received over the Internet directly to the IKSlinger which is inserted into the receiver. The IKSlinger has both a sever and client mode, enabling you to not only receive codewords from a public IKS or Private IKS server, but also configure your own Private IKS server for use by your own close personal friends or family.
IKS or Internet Key Sharing is a process where codewords required to decrypt a transmission are supplied from a public or private server to a client over a private network or the public Internet.
I heard it is dangerous to use IKS because they will find me and sue me?
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If your ISP tries to look at the Slingers' traffic all they see is gibberish since data between the Slinger and the online server is encrypted. If they somehow manage to get to the offshore server they will find all data on it encrypted as well. If they try to log traffic to that server they may find the IP addresses of those connecting to it but with an IP address alone they have nothing. With a million unsecured wireless routers in existence there is no way to prove that the owner of that IP address is actually using a Slinger. Even to identify a user from an IP address involves courts and a lot of money for lawyers. Multiply that by thousands of IPs and possibly hundreds of ISPs and you soon realize how slim the chances are to even obtain the identity of a user based on IP addressing alone. Even if the identity of the owner of that IP is established, a successful persecution of that user is slim, expensive and logistically a nightmare.
All the effort they may put into obtaining an offshore injunction against a host becomes an exercise in futility if the people maintaining the key server move that server from host to host every few months. By the time they gather all the paperwork, do all the legwork and such the server would have moved and they would need to start from step one. Not to mention extorting end users based on IP address wont fly.
Of course this is not a 100% percent guarantee. Only death and taxes are certain in this life. However people who bought from busted Canadian dealers like dishmonkey for an example or sent moneys for the now busted ROM10x's memberships with PayPal of all things exposed themselves in a million times worse way in the past and to date not one of those people have been sued.
Make no mistake Internet Key Sharing is close to impossible to circumvent. The providers are already ratcheting up scare mongering campaigns to intimidate would be IKS users. Add to this onslaught by idiots are dealers and FTA makers who have no IKS solution to sell at the moment but whom are working on one and want to discourage people from buying from the competition in the interim and soon you find a ton of morons spewing garbage. They will hypothesize you to death having no problem classifying a 1 in 10000 chance as Clear and Present Danger. In any case if you want no stress and no chance whatsoever of any kind of repercussion from your actions in this hobby there is a way for you to achieve just that: GO AND SUBSCRIBE TO CABLE OR SATELLITE TV.
What do you need to get started using the IKSlinger with the public IKS receiver?
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These are the prerequisites for a minimal client setup.
A satellite receiver and dish aimed at the provider's satellite(s);
A ROM 102 card EEPROM file that is married to your receiver.(Public numbers and flash is fine).
*This is what seperates the men from the boys folks! If you are not an experienced plastic tester comfortable with JTAGs - LEARN BEFORE YOU BUY!!!
An IKSlinger and a PC to program it;
A home router connected to a cable or ADS modem or any other Internet connection that connects to your home router
A 9V power supply and a mini USB cable for the IKSlinger.
Slinger drivers - install both driver executables from the IKSlinger/Drivers folder. The software will not run without these drivers;
Do Slinger clients get PPV, Porn and Special events?
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If you meant to ask if Public Slinger Clients get those channels the answer is yes for the porn with 4 or 5 porn channels open and PPV is now open on PVRs that support VOD (Video On Demand)
You get what the shared out card gets. If the public server people purchase a special event you are also able to watch it.
Same goes for special events. If they buy a PPV fight you will be able to watch it too. I am told when they do so they will post to the effect so that you can either record or view it on your PVR or tune to it and watch it if your IRD is not a PVR.
Does the IKSlinger work on Nagravision 3 Encrypted Channels?
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Yes, if you paid attention and read the FAQ and the instructions you'd see that it is running on Nagra 3 subscribed cards sharing them out to Slinger Clients. If and when they turn off ROM102, 103, S0x, 206 cards and of course all FTA receivers the Slinger systems will not even blink and keep working.
Will the Slingers work with my FTA receiver? Can I watch both Dish and Bell on one receiver at the same time?
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No. You must use a Dish Network or Bell factory receiver. Nor can you get both Dish and Bell on the same receiver at the same time. It has to be one or the other.
Do I need a slinger unit with every receiver that I have in my house?
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Your answer is the same if you substitute the word Card in the place of the word Slinger in your question. Of course you need a card (Slinger) in every receiver, without cards (Slingers) no receiver will work
How do I know if my receiver will work with the slinger?
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For a list of supported receivers please refer to the latest Slinger program where you will see the list of the supported receivers on the very first page
Will this work in conjunction with my basic subscribed IRD to give me addional channels?
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It is either your subbed card or the slinger. You would need to have a ROM 102 or 103 married bin with your receiver. It is easier just to get a second receiver and use that with the Slinger keeping your sub as a backup.
I have mobile broadband connected to my PC and a Belkin Router to my PC for the other computers to connect to the internet, will the slinger work this way?
Of course. As long as you have a dish pointed at the Dish Network satellites and you got a Dish Network receiver and you got the married BIN that belongs to that receiver.
I have a 722 modded and have the privide bin i have been runnind it as so clean the bin then add teir's then spoof it to 240/241 how do i patch this to the slinger i have just the clean bin and i have it with teir's added what way to patch this?
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There is no need to edit a thing just load your married BIN into the Slinger. There is no need for any tiers and if you got tiers or blockers in the BIN they are ignored anyway. The only thing gets checked is DT08 or SK info and time zone.
QUESTION:
I'm considering using a dual tuner receiver like VIP622. Will I need TWO Slingers devices?
Will the card being shared in slinger take and process the tiers and other updates when sent by Dishnetwork or Bell ?
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No if you read the Slinger Server how to you will see that you must stream the subscribed card you use if you are serving it once you near the tier expiry dates. This is only for those who want to serve their own cards, not just for simply accessing the public server.
I have had my card done for along time, I am sick of the guy who does it for me. What do I need to get to keep me and some of my close friends going?
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You need your married BIN from the ROM102 card you must be using, a Slinger and a permanent internet connection preferably through a home router. (Private Setup Only)
When installing a slinger can my receiver stay with the same software on it? Example DP 510 receiver with software version p364, or do i have to let it update?
Can I shut off some one if i have a sub card in private shared?
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Yes, you simply change the password on your private Slinger channel you serve and forget to tell him, or you can block the persons IP address or provider at your router to prevent them from connecting to you.
Will a new ROM 240 / 241 bin ( and a matching married TSOP on the IRD that's used ) be required to replace the ROM 102 / 103 bin ( and IRD with matching married TSOP ) that's currently required in order to get the Slinger to work after the switch to N3 ?
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No need or possibility for a ROM24x dump but if you got your ROM102 married BIN and TSOP you use that with the Slingers.
I run st19 with MAXMEL and real AUX. I have DN4900 with SK modded TSOP and married 102 image (cor file) using SK and running wide open. I do not have the original TSOP or original ROM102 image. Can my cor and TSOP be used as-is with Slinger after N3?
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Yes. Rename your cor file to bn102 and load that to the Slinger. You are ready to go. Will work on the N3 stream too.
So a server needs to be on 24/7 ?. I can have some channels to watch only if the owner of the server is watching TV or is willing to leave his server on?
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If you or your friends or family are serving a subscribed card out to each other it has to be in a slinger and constantly serving for your clients. If you use the free public IKS server then they are responsible for keeping the subscribed card in slingers on their end.
If you or your friends or family are serving a subscribed card out to each other it has to be in a slinger and constantly serving for your clients. If you use the free public IKS server then they are responsible for keeping the subscribed card in slingers on their end.
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Yes but those receivers wont be getting HD channels any more.
If you have a married ROM102 or 103 BIN for your receiver then you can use that BIN in the Slingers. All cardless receivers have cards in them except the card is built onto the receivers' motherboard. If you removed and glitched or glitched and read your ROM102 iCAM from the board direct you have the BIN needed already. All the latest cardless receiver firmware enables the card slot on those receivers and you can use the Slingers in those receivers.
I have a receiver that I have used withr romcode and it has worked very well. I don't have a married card for it. Will this still work with slinger and if so are there any modifictions or is it just plug and play?
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Of course you have a married card for it since you are using Romcode. Remove Romcode from the card then read it with Nagra2Edit 2.58 and save the BIN. That is your married ROM102 (or 103) BIN you will use with the Slinger.
What is an SK and where do I find it on my IRD TSOP?
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Secondary Keys are used with newer receivers to negotiate a session key. You find them by backing up your TSOP with a JTAG programmer and opening the backed up image in the GenDT08sk program. You only need them if you want to set up your own Slinger Server. If you only want to watch TV you can use the Slinger Group's IKS channel and don't need that SK at all. Read the instructions please.
How many times will you have to update the keys? Is it once a day, a week, or hours apart. Just wondering for dial up, how much time will be tieing up the phone?
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Once the initial negotiation between the Slinger and the online server is complete the server sends a new key (Control Word) to the Slinger every 15 seconds or so, When you change channel the Slinger contacts the server telling it that the channel has changed and the server will send CWs for that channel every 15 seconds. A continuous Internet connection is a must.
If I have accessed a public server and a baseball game I want to watch is blacked-out can I access another server that is showing the game?
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If the subscribed card they share out has that channel open so shall you. If the subscribed card has something blacked out at the server end you will also be blacked out. Now hopefully they will have several different area subscribed cards enslaved in this system so that at least one has those keys. I would like to see how that works myself so I am only guessing here.
Because Dish Network uses spotbeams for most local programming, securing locals on the public server for everyone would be next to impossible, so at this time local market programming will likely not be available.
When does support run out? will it be available for life ?
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While no guarantee can be made on how long the official public servers will be avilable, everyone can always revert back to a private shared system between friends in the event the public servers are no longer available. The team supporting the IKSlinger do intend to provide support for as long as possible.
I have a 9200 PVR subbed to bell . What do I need to share this with friends and relatives? Do I need to change any thing in this receiver? My friends have the public no’s in there receivers?
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With any and all Slinger server setups you must know your Box Key and IRD# or the SK if your receiver uses the secondary key to set up a server to serve your sub to family. Please read the server instructions. Your friends will be fine with public numbers in their receivers but they must make sure their receiver's firmware is up to the latest.
Since a sub card might lose its tiers if removed from the married receiver, how often would you have to re-insert a shared private card back in its married receiver?
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If you look at the Slinger software there is a feature in it which allows you to read tier expiry dates. What you'd do is set up your Slinger server, insert the sub card and boot up, remove the Slinger from the network, hook it back to the USB cable and in the Slinger software under the Cam Editor tab click the "read expiry dates" button. It will display the tier expiry dates from the previous session. When you get within a week at the soonest expiring tier stream the card overnight.
What DirectTV receivers will work with Slinger and what else will be needed?
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At this point it is not certain there will even be DTV support. They are talking about it but I think they want to finish Dish and Bell before they try to tackle that problem.
How many channels can one share server support, is there a limit?
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There is no limit. As many as the shared "our card" has. If you share out your card setting up your slinger as a server then all your clients will get access to all the channels you subscribe to. The limit is the number of clients one slinger server can support. I am told it is about 40 clients in a private setup, but it could likely be more based on server and network performance. If you plan to access the public slinger server then the limit thing is their problem not yours and they got to add more subbed cards at their head end as load grows. In all instances the number of channels you see on the clients' end is the same as the number of channels on the server end.
My Slinger does not work. It is doing this and that and I need help. Where can I ask support questions?
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If you need help with it, the best thing for you to do is READ READ READ. After you have read so much that you understand it better than we do, you can discuss and request help from our FTA Forums and Live FTA Chat
When you post you MUST be as specific as possible. In your post make sure you provide the following info:
The mode you are trying to use the Slinger for example: Server or Client
The exact problem description for example: I get a blinking orange LED and black screen on the TV with header info only. OR. I get CAM ID S0000000 on the sysinfo screen of my receiver. Etc...
Be as long winded as possible, include everything you can think of. It will cut down on the time to fix you up not having to go back and forth asking you to give details about this and that.
The exact make and model of your home router for example: Linksys or Dlink and the model number.
How do you access the Internet and what ISP: Tell us if you use DSL or Cable and if you use Roger's, Comcast or Sympatico etc...
What exact steps did you take to program and connect your Slinger: Did you configure Static or Dynamic IP etc...? Be as specific as possible.
