Online sports coverage from another countries website?....

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Jaxson

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#74995 11-Jan-2011 14:13

Hi all,

Sorry if this is blatantly in the wrong section, but I'm hoping those interested in TV coverage may be in the know.

Is there a way to fool a website into thinking you are from that country?

I'm looking for alternatives to satellite based F1 coverage (I refuse to pay SKY). The BBC show online content, but you need to be in the UK to view it. An example would be here at this track flyby type content http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8018747.stm

I've heard of proxy servers or similar but in my experience they have not been fast enough to work with video like I'd be trying to do here. What do other people do for this sort of thing?

Cheers.

Finch

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#426125 11-Jan-2011 14:17

I think you can hide your IP Address somehow. Theres a program out there somewhere, cant remember what it is called though sorry.

gumdigger

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#426129 11-Jan-2011 14:21

The programs that allow you to do this use proxy. And theyr slow

Jaxson

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#426131 11-Jan-2011 14:24

gumdigger: The programs that allow you to do this use proxy. And theyr slow

Yeah this has been my experience too. Like they will allow you to use a website that otherwise would be banned but it's only a last resort type thing as it's just sooo slooowwww to load sort thing. I just simply can't see that working for streaming video etc.

garvani

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#426134 11-Jan-2011 14:26

Purchase a VPN tunnel from the UK, you will get your required speed then.

jbard

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#426148 11-Jan-2011 14:47

Yeah VPN is the only way to go.

Jaxson

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#426153 11-Jan-2011 14:53

Thanks guys.

wpcnz

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#426158 11-Jan-2011 15:02

I've never got to the point where I've had to do this. Through sports streaming sites like ATDHE.net and myp2p.eu , I've usually been able to find a good quality stream for overseas sport

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Davy

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#426160 11-Jan-2011 15:11

Yes but it's still really annoying to see blocked out video segments on BBC, and *really* annoying when Pandora stopped working outside of the US.

Benoire

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#426174 11-Jan-2011 15:36

Jaxson: Hi all,

Sorry if this is blatantly in the wrong section, but I'm hoping those interested in TV coverage may be in the know.

Is there a way to fool a website into thinking you are from that country?

I'm looking for alternatives to satellite based F1 coverage (I refuse to pay SKY). The BBC show online content, but you need to be in the UK to view it. An example would be here at this track flyby type content http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8018747.stm

I've heard of proxy servers or similar but in my experience they have not been fast enough to work with video like I'd be trying to do here. What do other people do for this sort of thing?

Cheers.

I've been using UKiVPN and it works well for BBC content. I've only got 3.9mbps connection due to having string from my place to the exchange, BUT I get 2mbps throughput which is plenty for F1 and the normal BBC iPlayer content. I bought the year long package to all so get US, UK, Dutch etc which works fine.

Jaxson

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#426738 13-Jan-2011 08:54

Tried 'Expat Shield' which is like 'Hotspot Shield' and it didn't work.

Benoire

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#426743 13-Jan-2011 09:04

Benoire:

I've been using UKiVPN and it works well for BBC content. I've only got 3.9mbps connection due to having string from my place to the exchange, BUT I get 2mbps throughput which is plenty for F1 and the normal BBC iPlayer content. I bought the year long package to all so get US, UK, Dutch etc which works fine.

Further to this, it looks as if my local cabinet (circa 700m from the house) will be upgraded to ADSL 2+ over the weekend. If this does go ahead I can run a speedtest and also a BBC diagnostic test (effectively the same, but the BBC one is held on their servers rather than an ISP). I should be looking at 4-5mbps which is sufficient for BBC HD via UKiVPN. I'll update once I have tested!

vexxxboy

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#426753 13-Jan-2011 09:30

Jaxson: Tried 'Expat Shield' which is like 'Hotspot Shield' and it didn't work.

it works for me i use it to watch the BBC iplayer the only problem is you cant have Hotspot installed as well . so its one or the other and it works on the link above

Common sense is not as common as you think.

draculahowsby

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#427062 14-Jan-2011 10:15

i use hotspot shield for hulu,pandora but its only for the us i can stream in full quality perfectly

Disrespective

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#427487 15-Jan-2011 18:36

Benoire:
I've been using UKiVPN and it works well for BBC content. I've only got 3.9mbps connection due to having string from my place to the exchange, BUT I get 2mbps throughput which is plenty for F1 and the normal BBC iPlayer content. I bought the year long package to all so get US, UK, Dutch etc which works fine.

I use UKiVPN with TunerFreeMCE on my Win7 HTPC and it works well. I'm having quite slow speeds from the USA however. Might have to try a different server.