skybluestu

Might be of interest to some but i came across this site which gives you a UK IP address which allows you to access BBC I-Player and the like.
Be careful thought coz the daughter blew most of the months Broadband allowance watching eastenders !!

http://www.expatshield.com/

sorry if its old news to some

Rachelb82

I have been looking at internet packages to get an idea of costs and was shocked and slightly worried that they have internet allowences, i do alot of downloading in the UK, lots of American shows, does no-one do unlimted downloads?

skybluestu

Rachel
No one does unlimited downloads, we are on a 40MB per month for about $100with telecom. This limit was no problem for video skyping and the kids downloading US programs every night as the download size for the shows was not that large. The only problem came when the daughter watched all the episodes of eastenders she had missed which with video streaming from i-player was in excess of 20MB on one day!!

Justcol

we get 20gig a month and its plenty.

Wooly_Cow

Not true....Slingshot do

http://www.slingshot.co.nz/Default.aspx?p=264

...and many ISP's zero rate both certain content like You-tube and i-Sky and downloads at night (in the early hours)

simonsi

Couldn´t get expatshield to work going with a pay-proxy service instead. Even get to watch on the tv via the Wii

shirl

Great link thanks, I got expat shield to work, connected my laptop to the TV and hey presto got a picture BUT NO SOUND FROM TV!!! Help what do I do, not up to date on this technology stuff, sound still coming from laptop. I am running windows 7 on a gateway machine and tv is a flat screen lcd panasonic but the picture is dull, any suggestions greatly appreciated in normal speak please!!!

I also am a member of UK NOVA www.uknova.com which is free but hard to sign up to as limited membership. I download lots of programmes from there to burn if it is a series I like or watch and discard on laptop. However, you have to keep re-seeding stuff which is only fair but it takes up a lot of my 20g broadband. I may consider that slingshot when my contract runs out if I am still watching bbc i-player. Thanks for the link by the way and no I didn't know about it