Slingshot Global Mode announced

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#841696 22-Jun-2013 20:11

Global mode seems to have totally broken my ability to torrent.

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#841701 22-Jun-2013 20:22

Huh. Ever since I enabled it, ive been maxing my line on the CallPlus cache alone. Before, I would get better speeds from the states. Not sure if related at all though.

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#841730 22-Jun-2013 21:20

I've not seen the cache connect in a very very very long time. Off global mode and am getting the ususal not very good but its peak times speeds.

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#841949 23-Jun-2013 14:18

For those who have a fairly modern Samsung TV, and a degree of bravery, you can hack your TV and change the country setting so that you can get the Netflix / Hulu / HBO apps working on it.

The website wiki is wiki.samygo.tv

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#841956 23-Jun-2013 14:41

sarahot: For those who have a fairly modern Samsung TV, and a degree of bravery, you can hack your TV and change the country setting so that you can get the Netflix / Hulu / HBO apps working on it.

The website wiki is wiki.samygo.tv

Don't need to be brave, it's just a setting which you can set back if you wish. Works great btw, but you will loose the TVNZ on demand App.

Just press, FWD, 2, 8, 9 RWD from within the SmartTV interface and set region to US, update DNS settings and you're away.

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#842158 24-Jun-2013 08:05

Have you tried Mediahint from mediahint.com. It's an extension that intergrates with chorme and Firefox browser toseemesly get past the geo issue for Netflicks, iBBC etc. no need for Globle mode or slingshot

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#842169 24-Jun-2013 08:44

Or for that matter hola.org. Either as a Windows client or Chrome/Firefox extension.

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#847023 29-Jun-2013 07:30

i my exp - neither hola nor media hint were as fast as global - kinda blown away at how much content is available even via hulu free - doogie howser even got a look in the other night : )

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#847070 29-Jun-2013 10:32

driller2000: i my exp - neither hola nor media hint were as fast as global - kinda blown away at how much content is available even via hulu free - doogie howser even got a look in the other night : )

dont you find the ads annoying though? I'm much happier paying 8 bucks for netflix and getting no ads.

Plus Hulu free isn't available on any device other than browser.

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#847619 1-Jul-2013 10:38

Anybody had any luck using this with ITV Player?

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#847647 1-Jul-2013 11:46

NonprayingMantis:
driller2000: i my exp - neither hola nor media hint were as fast as global - kinda blown away at how much content is available even via hulu free - doogie howser even got a look in the other night : )
dont you find the ads annoying though? I'm much happier paying 8 bucks for netflix and getting no ads.

Plus Hulu free isn't available on any device other than browser.

hulu free via xbmc + turn adds off in add-on settings = happy camper :)

hulu add-on attainable via bluecop or the super repo

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#847675 1-Jul-2013 13:00

expression: Anybody had any luck using this with ITV Player?

Not working for me. BBC iPlayer not working either (on the whole, seems to work very occasionally). Wonder if it's a UK thing? Will try 4od and others when I get home.

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#848028 2-Jul-2013 07:26

insane:
sarahot: ...

...but you will loose the TVNZ on demand App...

Not if you have an e series telly

http://www.eyeondemand.com/2013/05/03/how-to-combine-multiple-country-apps-in-a-single-samsung-smart-hub/

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#853715 11-Jul-2013 09:47

Alfiegerner:
expression: Anybody had any luck using this with ITV Player?

Not working for me. BBC iPlayer not working either (on the whole, seems to work very occasionally). Wonder if it's a UK thing? Will try 4od and others when I get home.

iPlayer was working fine for us yesterday, but 4oD and ITV give "service not available in you area" and "this video is not available to play in your region" errors respectively.

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#865990 25-Jul-2013 16:14

I have been running the global mode for a few weeks now. Prior to this i had a subscription VPN service that worked well with Netflix. Although the global mode works fine for me it is eating up a lot more GB than i experienced with the VPN connection.

Has anyone else experienced this? Before we never touched the 50gb we have a month, now 1/3 of the way through the month and its pushing 30gb

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