How to watch BT Sport/Amazon Instant abroad

[Cyder]

Chaps, I'm out in Japan for the next few months working and would like to be able to access the BT Sport website to watch some rugby and Amazon Instant for some films/TV while I'm here.

Clearly neither company is keen on me being able to access their services while I'm abroad but knowing anything is possible on the internet is there any easyish way I can get around the system in order to be able to watch them?

Thanks

[Bushman1]

Google VPN

[Bushman1]

Google VPN

[gpo746]

One potential solution if you want to connect several devices etc is this:
An Open VPN routers in conjunction with A private VPN account . Such a router can cost from around £325 on e bay and the VPN subscription costs you around a fiver a month (this being similar to a mobile phone type 30 day sim only deal)

[LordGrover]

unlocator may be worth a look.
I've started using it to watch US content in UK but I think it works as you require.

[SS2.]

To circumvent any regional 'issues', I've used Hola! the last few times I've been out of the country.

Seamless.

[extraT]

highly recommend tunnelbear, $5 or £3 per month, connects to a varity of servers across the world, which you can select (obviously UK), 100% encrypted traffic. Works seemlessly with Iplayer, 4Od, sky GO etc...

[simoncrouch]

zenmate for chrome is what you are looking for. Free, loads in to chrome and you can use the setting to state where you are out of a list of about 5, one of them is London, set it to that and you should be fine. I use it all the time on New York to watch Hola.

[Cyder]

Thanks for the advice guys I'll have a go with some of these ideas and see what works best, free ones first of course!

[thegun86]

Hey guys,

This article seems to make sense. https://www.reviewsfire.com/tech/watch-bt-sport-ab...

Basically, BT Sport has started blocking some VPNs. BBC iPlayer does the same.

...So you need a VPN that opens no servers when their old ones are blocked.

Hope this helps!

[RammyMP]

I’m thinking of getting an Amazon Fire Stick and putting iptv on it. There are outfits that you can get a subscription for €3 a week up to €50 for the year.

https://enjoy-iptv.com

[boxst]

Depending on your router and internet speed at home, then you can also just set up VPN on that and then TV apps think you are at home and so do other sites like the national lottery.

I have an ASUS RT-AC5300 on which I've installed OpenVPN. I can also recommend NordVPN that I use to 'pretend' I'm in other countries.

[Troubleatmill]

This was answered last week.

Have a looks here.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...


Look for my post on owing the guy a virtual beer.

[BigTZ4M]

The absolute cheapest and most reliable way of ensuring you don't get blocked is to setup a Raspberry Pi with a VPN server at home. When you are abroad you connect back to it from whatever device and the streaming services think you are coming from your home. A £40 Raspberry Pi and this http://www.pivpn.io/ would be enough.

The problem with that is it needs a fair bit of technical know how to get it going.

Next easiest with the same reliable results would be to setup the VPN server on your router. It's still a bit of a techie thing to do and most routers won't have this feature. I think you're looking at custom firmware like DD-WRT on Asus and Linksys routers to be able to do this unless you go for high end solutions like pfSense or a virtual router on your network. If none of this paragraph makes any sense to you then don't attempt it.

Both the above options are achieving the same end state as the AlwaysHome recommended earlier - appearing to be in your home when away from it. I don't know that product but I suspect it is a lot easier to implement and looks quite elegant on the face of it.

And finally you have the option of just routing through one of the internet based VPN providers as mentioned a lot in this thread. By far the easiest to install but comes with the caveat already stated that content providers are starting to clamp down on their use and blocking them. In this model you will not look like you're coming from home but from a server somewhere in the UK. This used to be enough as streaming sites did a simple geo check as to which country you looked to be in but now some sites will block it and some won't. Netflix in the US is notorious for blocking them because it was the best way around getting your Netflix client to serve up the tastier US content rather than the more restricted UK content.

[LordGrover]

^^ Yep. I've given up changing servers on Netflix now. You used to be able to set and forget for a few months, but then they were lasting just days or weeks... A right faff.