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Hi folks,
Can anyone shed some light on obtaining a VPN router in this part of the world? The TV selection out here is pants and my wife misses her dose of Downton Abbey. We have a VPN on our devices, but it's obviously clunky to set up to the TV etc.
I've bought an Apple TV and also a Firestick, but I was dismayed to realise that there is literally nothing available out here. Hence, the need to get a VPN router so that our devices and my newly acquired kit all automatically stream off a VPN enabled router.
Has anyone procured something similar? Where did you get it from/what were the pitfalls etc?
Cheers
Can anyone shed some light on obtaining a VPN router in this part of the world? The TV selection out here is pants and my wife misses her dose of Downton Abbey. We have a VPN on our devices, but it's obviously clunky to set up to the TV etc.
I've bought an Apple TV and also a Firestick, but I was dismayed to realise that there is literally nothing available out here. Hence, the need to get a VPN router so that our devices and my newly acquired kit all automatically stream off a VPN enabled router.
Has anyone procured something similar? Where did you get it from/what were the pitfalls etc?
Cheers
never used a router but been through plenty of vpn providers. du and etisalat actively search for people using vpn's and they throttle your bandwidth if detected, rendering it useless for streaming.
using tunnel bear at the moment which has no noticeable drop in speed. trial it for $5 a month then its $40 for a year and supports 5 ios devices. i don't have any tv subscriptions but use a mac mini hooked up to the tv for all media duties. either iplayer, netflix or good old torrent piracy [not illegal or enforced here]. thinking of getting the new apple tv with the touchpad remote with the mac as house server to make it all a little slicker.
another way would be to get a slingbox setup from the uk and tap into it from here. no vpn required so fast internet on each end should see you right.
using tunnel bear at the moment which has no noticeable drop in speed. trial it for $5 a month then its $40 for a year and supports 5 ios devices. i don't have any tv subscriptions but use a mac mini hooked up to the tv for all media duties. either iplayer, netflix or good old torrent piracy [not illegal or enforced here]. thinking of getting the new apple tv with the touchpad remote with the mac as house server to make it all a little slicker.
another way would be to get a slingbox setup from the uk and tap into it from here. no vpn required so fast internet on each end should see you right.
shirt said:
never used a router but been through plenty of vpn providers. du and etisalat actively search for people using vpn's and they throttle your bandwidth if detected, rendering it useless for streaming.
using tunnel bear at the moment which has no noticeable drop in speed. trial it for $5 a month then its $40 for a year and supports 5 ios devices. i don't have any tv subscriptions but use a mac mini hooked up to the tv for all media duties. either iplayer, netflix or good old torrent piracy [not illegal or enforced here]. thinking of getting the new apple tv with the touchpad remote with the mac as house server to make it all a little slicker.
another way would be to get a slingbox setup from the uk and tap into it from here. no vpn required so fast internet on each end should see you right.
Interesting, I use a VPN on an iPad and have ZERO issues streaming SkyGo, iPlayer etc on Du's 8mb package through it.using tunnel bear at the moment which has no noticeable drop in speed. trial it for $5 a month then its $40 for a year and supports 5 ios devices. i don't have any tv subscriptions but use a mac mini hooked up to the tv for all media duties. either iplayer, netflix or good old torrent piracy [not illegal or enforced here]. thinking of getting the new apple tv with the touchpad remote with the mac as house server to make it all a little slicker.
another way would be to get a slingbox setup from the uk and tap into it from here. no vpn required so fast internet on each end should see you right.
A neighbor was talking about a DNS on the router (whatever that is!) as a better option as I've also just got Apple TV and UAE Netflix is pony.
The other option is a dns based service like unotelly. You could then setup your TV to think it's in the UK and use iplayer etc. directly on the TV.
I also have an android box running kodi and use addons like UKTurk for other live TV and obviously there are plenty of addons to watch movies and TV shows too.
I have tried another option, setting up multiple satellite dishes to pick up channels from accross Europe and the Middle East using something like a dreambox but this got expensive and finding a server that would unlock the channels that wouldn't shutdown suddenly got harder to find too. the kodi box now gets used far more in my place.
I also have an android box running kodi and use addons like UKTurk for other live TV and obviously there are plenty of addons to watch movies and TV shows too.
I have tried another option, setting up multiple satellite dishes to pick up channels from accross Europe and the Middle East using something like a dreambox but this got expensive and finding a server that would unlock the channels that wouldn't shutdown suddenly got harder to find too. the kodi box now gets used far more in my place.
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