Arrrgh!! Live stream outside uk?

mr tommo · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:38

Hi guys,

Currently in Thailand and its driving me crazy trying to watch the olympics over here.
Firstly, no opening ceremony.
Secondly, they seem to love the worst Olympic sports. Seriously I've had enough of watching judo(dressing gown grabbing?) and table tennis. Bizarrely, one channel decided to show a full 90min repeat of Newcastle v Stoke city from last season the other day for no apparent reason and cut away from the Olympics. Haven't seem GBR get a single medal yet.

I spent god knows how long watching the men's gymnastics tonight, the first 5 rounds. Then it got to the final all important round 6 and cut away to bring us the badminton!

I've got my iPad and wifi. It's 1:30am here and I simply can't get to sleep at all so I'm open to suggestions. Tried the obvious like sky go, iplayer, tv catchup, Justin tv and all of the ant be used outside the uk. Justin tv works but can't seem to find anything on there hat resembles a live feed.

Am I right I thinking the football starts any minute now?

The_One · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:42

bbc website has all the olympic events on live feed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/

Jokester · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:42

BBC will block you outside the UK.

The_One · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:43

Jokester said:
BBC will block you outside the UK.

go through a uk proxy?

Robbo · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:43

Use a VPN service. VyprVPN are good.

mr tommo · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:48

Indeed..

Even tried paying a £2.99 subscription to Eurosport player and that won't load outside the EU (the name should have given a big enough hint

)

mr tommo · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:51

Robbo said:
Use a VPN service. VyprVPN are good.

Interesting, looks exactly what I need... $14.99 a month though, is there any cheaper alternatives as I leave on Saturday.

Robbo · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:54

Most VPN services should work okay with the BBC site, though not all work with TVCatchup for example.

The_One · 1 Aug 2012 at 19:56

mr tommo said:
Interesting, looks exactly what I need... $14.99 a month though, is there any alternatives as I leave on Saturday.

cheaper alternative

http://www.myvpn.pro/packages.php

NZB · 1 Aug 2012 at 20:02

Expat shield should do the trick http://www.expatshield.com/

mranderson · 1 Aug 2012 at 20:13

Slingbox maybe?

mr tommo · 1 Aug 2012 at 20:22

Ah ha! Giganews have a free 14 day trial so just spentnthenkast 15 mins signing up. Got to wait 15 mins now apparently.

Thanks for the help, if his doesn't work I'll try the others

mr tommo · 1 Aug 2012 at 20:57

Imgivenup, not authenticating either of them.

The good news.. They've gone over to the football for the second half. Result!