End to Sky tv in Spain

[beanbag]

audi321 said:

Rather than pissing around with VPNs (which is extremely complicated if setting up your own, and unreliable or expensive by using the others) why aren't you guys using www.filmon.tv? Should work fine with 3mbps connection?

Can someone test it who is in Spain?

It works

I use it to stream BBC / ITV to my Apple TV through AirPlay.

[dtmpower]

eybic said:

We have a decent fibre optic speed at home, how would my Dad "tap into" our connection as above?

What router do you have ? Can you setup a port forward ? Do you have a static ip from your ISP ?

Do you have a spare old pc that you can install Ubuntu on ?

What devices would your dad be using ? Windows ? iPad ?

[eybic]

dtmpower said:

What router do you have ? Can you setup a port forward ? Do you have a static ip from your ISP ?

Do you have a spare old pc that you can install Ubuntu on ?

What devices would your dad be using ? Windows ? iPad ?

It's a BT Homehub
Don't know
Don't know
No
Windows PC

[dtmpower]

eybic said:

dtmpower said:

What router do you have ? Can you setup a port forward ? Do you have a static ip from your ISP ?

Do you have a spare old pc that you can install Ubuntu on ?

What devices would your dad be using ? Windows ? iPad ?

It's a BT Homehub
Don't know
Don't know
No
Windows PC

Not tried it , but given the above it might be a good starting point:

http://www.howtogeek.com/135996/how-to-create-a-vp...

[eybic]

Thank you, I'll take a look.

[dtmpower]

eybic said:

Thank you, I'll take a look.

Then your dad will make a pptp connection to your pc, and then if setup correctly all his network traffic can go down the 'vpn tunnel' and appear that he is connecting from your network.

[audi321]

dtmpower said:

Then your dad will make a pptp connection to your pc, and then if setup correctly all his network traffic can go down the 'vpn tunnel' and appear that he is connecting from your network.

And if you get this working I'll be amazed! Seriously.....stop messing about and just use filmon.tv

[beanbag]

audi321 said:

dtmpower said:

Then your dad will make a pptp connection to your pc, and then if setup correctly all his network traffic can go down the 'vpn tunnel' and appear that he is connecting from your network.

And if you get this working I'll be amazed! Seriously.....stop messing about and just use filmon.tv

Or.....if he lives on the costa, just get a VPN router. You can buy a pre-configured one with a years VPN service for €150 from Y-Internet. Just plug that in, and it'll all work.

[dtmpower]

beanbag said:

Or.....if he lives on the costa, just get a VPN router. You can buy a pre-configured one with a years VPN service for €150 from Y-Internet. Just plug that in, and it'll all work.

Looks good

[mickrick]

Thanks for the replies

I think I´m going to give it a go with filmon tv.

Thanks again,
Mick.

[audi321]

beanbag said:

Or.....if he lives on the costa, just get a VPN router. You can buy a pre-configured one with a years VPN service for €150 from Y-Internet. Just plug that in, and it'll all work.

€150/year or something much easier for free.....mmmmmm let me think about that one

[rdjohn]

Did anyone on Costa del Sol have a huge drop in Internet speed last night?

Our Movistar 3Mbps dropped to 0.65Mbps, but is back to 2.5 now, so no TV streaming from 8pm onwards.

[beanbag]

audi321 said:

€150/year or something much easier for free.....mmmmmm let me think about that one

There's no such thing as a decent service for free when it comes to VPN's and TV streaming services. They need to make their money somehow.

With regards to the suggestion, the point I'm trying to make is if a VPN router is used, there is no need to connect PC's, laptops or configure every device to connect to iPlayer. You just configure the router, and connect to it wirelessly as you would do anything else and it will just work.

No messy configuration. No bulky equipment or cables.

Combine the VPN router with a NOW TV box as I do, and you have a perfect iPlayer streaming service.

[dtmpower]

beanbag said:

Combine the VPN router with a NOW TV box as I do, and you have a perfect iPlayer streaming service.

A perfect solution as long as the vpn service has adequate bandwidth. I've found most UK domestic adsl is too slow for uploads, but if you have a friend/family on cable or fttc and they are happy to let you piggy back you get far better download bandwidth using the domestic upload than you do using a commercial paid for vpn service, for the exact reason you've mentioned, they squeeze the bandwidth/number of connections to the limit.

[beanbag]

dtmpower said:

beanbag said:

Combine the VPN router with a NOW TV box as I do, and you have a perfect iPlayer streaming service.

A perfect solution as long as the vpn service has adequate bandwidth. I've found most UK domestic adsl is too slow for uploads, but if you have a friend/family on cable or fttc and they are happy to let you piggy back you get far better download bandwidth using the domestic upload than you do using a commercial paid for vpn service, for the exact reason you've mentioned, they squeeze the bandwidth/number of connections to the limit.

If you live on the costa del sol, the VPN service provided by Y-Internet is from HideMyAss which is generally very good. You get a slight drop in performance but I average about 3.5Mbps which is sufficient for SD live viewing and of course when I plug it into my Sky Ondemand, I can download whatever I like overnight in any SD or HD format.

[mickrick]

Filmon tv working great! Have the app on the ipad and iphone. No cables, just open the app, choose the channel, and automatically starts on the apple TV.
Gutted I wasted the money on a new sat dish and HD sky box though. Grrr!

By the way, we got buggered about so bad by Movistar when we moved house, after 6 weeks they still couldn´t get us a land line, so we cancelled the contract, and went for wireless ADSL with ibred.
After the initial call to ibred, we had ADSL and telephone installed within a week. 30€ a month for landline and 4gb. Cheaper than duo with Movistar, and more gigs.

Movistar still chasing us for the bill we pulled back, for the time we had no line. We had 4 lines with them for over 11 years. Crap service, and rude with it.

[skylimitsme]

beanbag said:

VPN is no problem. I highly recommend Hide My Ass or StrongVPN. The latter have EXCELLENT customer support.

Your real problem is a decent ISP in Spain. Unfortunately Movistar dominate the market and are in a word...st.

We use Satellite internet which works well when it's working but the reliability is very poor in bad weather. There are then cable options which are better but limited to built-up areas like cities.

Good luck!

Hidemyass has privacy issues. Better use any no log vpn: http://www.vpntips.com/hidemyass-alternatives/

[M3DEV]

I bought an XBMC box off Ebay for around £90.
Plugged it in and have all UK TV through FilmOn and other suppliers and Sky Sports and Movies.
This using Movistar landline and broadband.
Once purchased it costs nothing.
There is a guy in Estepona who will provide and setup for you for Euro 170.

[M3DEV]

Just to add, we have watched BBC and ITV all night with no buffering at all!

[mrskytv]

You can use a UK VPN ROUTER in Spain it plugs in existing router and fools them in to thinking you are in the UK access iplayer, 4ondemanD etc, this is handy if you have a sky+hd box.

The mag250 iptv box is the best option this is a great demo video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsVzEztwOyw