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'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.... Aussie tele just doesn't do it for me!

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

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.

Your a angel lou,just gonna try it now

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

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

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!

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.

No problems!!

A HDMI cable, we got one from CD Wow for $30, I think you can get them cheaper off the net though

It's an annual fee, I think of it as my TV licence!! It doesn't stop/start either, it streams seamlessly... I wouldn't be able to watch it if it stuttered, it'd drive me up the wall!

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!

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.

What speed internet connection do you have, ADSL, ADSL 2, 2+, Naked etc etc.

So how much is the annual fee then?

Jazzys

Ooh I don't know... It's ADSL, I don't think its 2, 1500 something or other rings a bell but I'm not sure what it refers to! It was a standard home phone/internet thing with Telstra.

It was about $30 USD a year I think

Well worth it in my opinion, it has been used daily since April.

You'll need to check what outputs you have on your computer and TV. Modern LCD/Plasma screens should have a HDMI and/or VGA input, your computer will also depend on how old it is

I personally wouldn't use any kind of torrent as its generally too slow for me.

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?

Its www.thebox.bz (belize domain I think). Excellent for UK TV progs, and super fast, a 1 hour Top Gear downloads in about 7 minutes.

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

Depends entirely on your quota. You say you're on wireless, so I'd tread carefully because telcos like Telstra crucify you if you go over quota.