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bbc i player help
Reet dudes
We are still ina holiday rental,and from wednesday we are in another rental for 15 days until our long termer is ready! Any way,how in simple steps or bullets can we watch bbc iplayer on our lap dog,cos im fed up with watch indy jones on dvd all the bloody time lol We have a wireless internet here,but have a hard wired internet wednesday onwards!! cheers jase |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8112164)
Reet dudes
We are still ina holiday rental,and from wednesday we are in another rental for 15 days until our long termer is ready! Any way,how in simple steps or bullets can we watch bbc iplayer on our lap dog,cos im fed up with watch indy jones on dvd all the bloody time lol We have a wireless internet here,but have a hard wired internet wednesday onwards!! cheers jase I'm no techy whizz, I paid for a programme to hide my ip, I think the website address is www.hide-my-ip.com and then I select a UK IP address and Voila ! I can watch iPlayer and ITV Player, I'm all up to date on my Corrie, Eastenders, X Factor, I'm A Celeb, Spooks... God I think I might watch too much tele.... :unsure: Aussie tele just doesn't do it for me! :p Other people download from www.thebox.biz or www.UKnova.com but I'm not into file sharing and I get scared that downloading will zap all my internet (probably unjustified!) so I stream the programmes and with our telstra package there's no buffering and I bought a lead that plugs into my laptop and into my TV so I can watch the iPlayer and things on the TV :thumbsup: |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Louiseh86
(Post 8112363)
I've just watched the first episode of Top Gear (new series) on the iplayer :)
I'm no techy whizz, I paid for a programme to hide my ip, I think the website address is www.hide-my-ip.com and then I select a UK IP address and Voila ! I can watch iPlayer and ITV Player, I'm all up to date on my Corrie, Eastenders, X Factor, I'm A Celeb, Spooks... God I think I might watch too much tele.... :unsure: Aussie tele just doesn't do it for me! :p Other people download from www.thebox.biz or www.UKnova.com but I'm not into file sharing and I get scared that downloading will zap all my internet (probably unjustified!) so I stream the programmes and with our telstra package there's no buffering and I bought a lead that plugs into my laptop and into my TV so I can watch the iPlayer and things on the TV :thumbsup: I dont know what you mean by 'no buffering' as the player is generally the thing that does the buffering. |
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Your a angel lou,just gonna try it now :thumbsup:
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Louiseh86
(Post 8112363)
I've just watched the first episode of Top Gear (new series) on the iplayer :)
I'm no techy whizz, I paid for a programme to hide my ip, I think the website address is www.hide-my-ip.com and then I select a UK IP address and Voila ! I can watch iPlayer and ITV Player, I'm all up to date on my Corrie, Eastenders, X Factor, I'm A Celeb, Spooks... God I think I might watch too much tele.... :unsure: Aussie tele just doesn't do it for me! :p Other people download from www.thebox.biz or www.UKnova.com but I'm not into file sharing and I get scared that downloading will zap all my internet (probably unjustified!) so I stream the programmes and with our telstra package there's no buffering and I bought a lead that plugs into my laptop and into my TV so I can watch the iPlayer and things on the TV :thumbsup: Does it suffer from stopping and starting all the time while your watching it unless you have a great internet connection? cheers Jazzys |
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What lead is needed for lapdog to tv to stream iplayer?
I have tried downloading merlin for da boss,but it says 6 hrs till downlaoded:rofl::thumbdown: |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by CosmicBertie
(Post 8112909)
Streaming will zap your bandwidth too, you still download the video, you just watch it there and then. Downloading will allow you to watch it more than once without having to download it again.
I dont know what you mean by 'no buffering' as the player is generally the thing that does the buffering. The buffering thing was when we were on a smaller package the stream would stop/start all the time but we went up to the next size package and it works great now.
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8113590)
Your a angel lou,just gonna try it now :thumbsup:
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8113855)
What lead is needed for lapdog to tv to stream iplayer?
I have tried downloading merlin for da boss,but it says 6 hrs till downlaoded:rofl::thumbdown:
Originally Posted by jazzys
(Post 8113836)
Is that just a one off payment?
Does it suffer from stopping and starting all the time while your watching it unless you have a great internet connection? cheers Jazzys |
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I use whatsonthebox.net that hides my ip but I have had problems with shows loading. See my thread asking for computer help below.
I have also used the box which was pretty good although I have found that bit torrent is much quicker than u torrent. Bit torrent takes about 40 minutes to download an hour of x factor or I'm a celeb but u torrent took hours and I mean hours! |
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Or don't bother with any VPNs, Proxy packages, downloads and just use www.filmon.com - which is still free for the time-being and does, for the most part, work flawlessly.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Louiseh86
(Post 8113917)
I watch most things most nights and haven't used up my internet yet (been doing it for about 6 months now) we're on a 25gig package thing with Telstra.So far so good! :thumbsup:
So how much is the annual fee then? Jazzys |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by jazzys
(Post 8114370)
What speed internet connection do you have, ADSL, ADSL 2, 2+, Naked etc etc.
So how much is the annual fee then? Jazzys It was about $30 USD a year I think :) Well worth it in my opinion, it has been used daily since April. |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8113855)
What lead is needed for lapdog to tv to stream iplayer?
I have tried downloading merlin for da boss,but it says 6 hrs till downlaoded:rofl::thumbdown: I personally wouldn't use any kind of torrent as its generally too slow for me. |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8114367)
Or don't bother with any VPNs, Proxy packages, downloads and just use www.filmon.com - which is still free for the time-being and does, for the most part, work flawlessly.
And a few programs now and again wont kill our tineret amount? |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Louiseh86
(Post 8112363)
I've just watched the first episode of Top Gear (new series) on the iplayer :)
I'm no techy whizz, I paid for a programme to hide my ip, I think the website address is www.hide-my-ip.com and then I select a UK IP address and Voila ! I can watch iPlayer and ITV Player, I'm all up to date on my Corrie, Eastenders, X Factor, I'm A Celeb, Spooks... God I think I might watch too much tele.... :unsure: Aussie tele just doesn't do it for me! :p Other people download from www.thebox.biz or www.UKnova.com but I'm not into file sharing and I get scared that downloading will zap all my internet (probably unjustified!) so I stream the programmes and with our telstra package there's no buffering and I bought a lead that plugs into my laptop and into my TV so I can watch the iPlayer and things on the TV :thumbsup: For US programmes (well, House and 24 and Mythbusters for me), I use www.eztv.it. Not as fast as thebox, but fast enough. Then just plug a netbook with a vga cable into the tv. No stuttering or stopping. And you can watch them repeatedly, burn them to DVD whatever. I suppose its horses for courses, streaming would be fine for something like Corrie, I mean you wouldn't watch it more than once. But something like HIGNY or Mythbusters, you probably would want to view again. JTL |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8115393)
I just joined this,but probaly down to our poor wireless connection we cant view it,but i take it in general we can watch live tv ok?
And a few programs now and again wont kill our tineret amount? |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by CosmicBertie
(Post 8114721)
I personally wouldn't use any kind of torrent as its generally too slow for me.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by MarkMC
(Post 8120286)
I found the opposite. VPN slowed the connection down too much to stream the show. 1 hour show was taking 2 hours to download from the BBC or 30 minutes from a torrent. I've stopped paying the VPN subscription in favour of the free torrents.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8120296)
VPN only needs to be active at the start of the download. Set it going and then turn off the VPN and you'll get full speed.
I never stream'd much anyway, mostly set a few things off downloading then watch at my leisure during the week. |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by MarkMC
(Post 8120315)
I never stream'd much anyway, mostly set a few things off downloading then watch at my leisure during the week.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by MarkMC
(Post 8120286)
I found the opposite. VPN slowed the connection down too much to stream the show. 1 hour show was taking 2 hours to download from the BBC or 30 minutes from a torrent. I've stopped paying the VPN subscription in favour of the free torrents.
My main beef at the moment is that even though peer-to-peer is legal, the big companies/isps deem it to be illegal, and are on the lookout for p2p users. They are more likely to shoot first and ask questions later when you're broadcasting to the world all the downloaded music/movies/games you have. Where as an SSL enabled http/nntp download tends to stay under the radar. YMMV though. |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8120487)
Yea, same here. :)
While we're on the subject of wirelss and all that. I just put a wireless USB dongle on my Desktop, instead of connecting directly via the cable. But it turns out, my Motorola Modem or Bigpond don't like the laptop and the desktop connecting to it wirelessly at the same time. Whats that about. We've also got a netbook, and thinking back it used to say every five minutes that it had found the wireless network, so obviously it was getting kicked of every 5 minutes too. Is this serious? Does the bigpond motorola wireless modem only handle 1 wireless connection? JTL |
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So Hutch,do i just click onto film on,and it should work coolio?
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by JCSUPERMOTO
(Post 8120923)
So Hutch,do i just click onto film on,and it should work coolio?
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Just downloaded hide-my-ip.com and is allowing me to acccess bbc iplayer. I am unable to watch the programmes as it keeps on buffering every couple of seconds, I have tried to download the programmes but it says they are only available to people in the UK. My new IP address is a UK one so I don't understand why it does not work.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by buchanan
(Post 8164919)
Just downloaded hide-my-ip.com and is allowing me to acccess bbc iplayer. I am unable to watch the programmes as it keeps on buffering every couple of seconds, I have tried to download the programmes but it says they are only available to people in the UK. My new IP address is a UK one so I don't understand why it does not work.
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8166560)
You've just hit on why I never recommended it myself in the past. But in answer to your question I guess you wait until the HideMyIP people introduce a new UK server for you to connect to and then hope that the BBC don't detect it too quickly.
rob |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by robwyatt
(Post 8204409)
you want to try something a bit more stable like the one i use (uktvaccess), 16 mps, 4 quid a month.
rob Updated to add - ROFL @ their FAQ, "We do not endorse the use of this service for any activities illegal under UK law or the law of the country you are resident in." This despite their home page which is one big advert for circumventing British copyright law. :lol: |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8204571)
Speaking for myself I don't use any of them these days, but I note that uktvaccess is a VPN service like many others and as such as every bit as susceptible to IP range blocking as HideMyIP. Only reason many of these VPN companies manage to hang on to their IP range for so long is because they're tiddly companies that don't generate that much traffic. ;)
Updated to add - ROFL @ their FAQ, "We do not endorse the use of this service for any activities illegal under UK law or the law of the country you are resident in." This despite their home page which is one big advert for circumventing British copyright law. :lol: |
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Looks like I've lost my account thebox, and I want the see what the new day of the triffids was like. Guess I'll have to wait until it appears on another site ;(
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by datamile
(Post 8204628)
Looks like I've lost my account thebox, and I want the see what the new day of the triffids was like. Guess I'll have to wait until it appears on another site ;(
user: turkishliving pass: qww223 IP: 213.175.212.52 set up info is at www.uktvaccess.com/setup.htm rob |
Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by robwyatt
(Post 8204620)
Got to admire their sense of humour for that. Nice page you have, by the way.
Originally Posted by datamile
(Post 8204628)
Looks like I've lost my account thebox, and I want the see what the new day of the triffids was like. Guess I'll have to wait until it appears on another site ;(
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Re: bbc i player help
Originally Posted by Hutch
(Post 8205064)
Ta. Out of interest why are you letting your VPN account lapse?
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