Sling's upcoming SlingLink Turbo leaked?

When you're slinging media across the home, there's no such thing as "too much bandwidth," and it looks like Sling Media is beefing up its SlingLink line of home wiring network products with the SlingLink Turbo. The new device ups the bandwidth from 14Mbps to 85Mbps, and while the original SlingLinks were primarily designed for a single Slingbox connection, the Turbo vision should be able to handle more general purpose home media networking tasks. The SlingLink Turbo was spotted by a SlingCommunity member on Amazon.com, with an expected ship date of February 27th 2007 for $149. The device is interoperable with existing PowerLine adapters, and has four Ethernet ports beyond the PowerLine link. As far as rumors go, this one looks pretty legit, but with a February 27th date on the books, we should know exactly how legit before too terribly long.

[Thanks TieGuy]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2007 4:30PM]

I understand Sling is going for that whole "signature look" thing, but can they manufacture at least one product that doesn't look like either part of a bicycle rack or something you would use to prop up a short table leg?

[ozbone Posted Feb 19th 2007 4:56PM]

I noticed that some of the major retailers are discounting the Slingbox AV from $179 to $149 so it looks like they're clearing 'em out to make room for this.

[brandonc1 Posted Feb 19th 2007 8:36PM]

"The SlingLink Turbo was spotted by a SlingCommunity member on Amazon.com"
First that was me http://www.slingcommunity.com/profile/252/

Second... Amazon just pulled it. Sling Media just make a call?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2007 9:17PM]

I have Directv and i'd like to finally buy a SlingBox for my laptop and desktop, should i wait for this new player or is it save to go with the latest SlingBox???

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2007 7:44AM]

Rick, I have 2 Slingboxes (Classic and Pro) hooked up to my DirecTV boxes, and everything is working great. I'm going through the Netgear WNR834B Wireless-N router and connecting via MacBook and Motorola Q.

[brandonc1 Posted Feb 19th 2007 11:45PM]

This is not a player, it's a Sling Link Network connection device.
See http://www.slingcommunity.com/ for more info.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2007 8:07PM]

When are they going to integrate WiFi into these things?

I can not understand companies that don't do this.