Slingbox Solo no longer working with new Airport Express router

Help! I'm at the end of my tether trying to get my Slingbox to communicate with the new Airport Express I've just bought. Here's the deal...Obviously, as AEXP only has one Ethernet Port (under advisement) I had to go and buy a 5 port Ethernet switch. Cable modem connects to 1 port of the switch. AEXP connects to another port. Slingbox connects to 3rd port. Network light on Slingbox flashes incessantly and Slingplayer software tells me to makes sure the "Network Router the Slingbox is connected to has the correct Port Forwarding settings."
I have tried (via google) but cannot make sense of this. There should be no firewall obstacles as i am using MAC filtering and have added the MAC address of the slingbox to the AEXP settings. I know that Slingbox does work as it worked fine before with my Belkin router. Please can anyone help? I have called slingbox for ages and they are unable to help. Here's hoping someone here has brains and the patience i don't have! Kind Regards.

identitytheft, Welcome to the discussion area!
Sorry but you need to replace the Ethernet switch with a router which has more than one Ethernet port.
Since the AirPort Express (AX) only has a single Ethernet port it can not properly share an IP address to Ethernet clients.

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