TechnicalAdvice from furrners & Merkans pls

 

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41272.4 In reply to 41272.2 
Funny, I can reply to you as normal.  Perhaps I have become one with everything without knowing it, and can only be communicated with as part of the universal unity.  Doesn't seem likely though.

Jane's infinitely better half, Jose, is Mexican and I'm guessing if there was a channel with Beeb stuff on he'd know about it.  Furthermore I suspect Jane's tastes are for the less syndicated stuff - she's of artfag stock too.

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  milko     
41272.5 In reply to 41272.3 
Ta Milko.  Any more, anybody?

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.6 In reply to 41272.4 
quote: Manthorp
she's of artfag stock too.

Yet she watches TV? More pseudoartfag.

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
41272.7 In reply to 41272.6 
She's probably the one person in the UK (now in Mexico) who watches The Space

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.8 In reply to 41272.7 
There, it worked that time.

Is there "The Space" stuff on the bbc that you can't see on the website?

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 From:  patch  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.9 In reply to 41272.1 
If it's through the browser, Zenmate is a Chrome app that sorts that out. I doubt it would affect iPlayer, though.
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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  patch     
41272.10 In reply to 41272.9 
Patch: I'll tell her.
Smiffy: as nobody has ever spent more than five minutes in The Space, it's hard to tell. Total bloody white elephant.

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 From:  Matt  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.11 In reply to 41272.1 
Its not completely free of technical know how, as it requires you to change your DNS sever addresses*, but we very much like Unblock-us. We use it to access Netflix US, HBO Go, Showtime, AMC etc. from here in blighty and it all works wonderfully.

Full list of their supported services, including BBC iPlayer are here.

Being a DNS solution, it can be applied to your PC or to the entire network by changing the DNS servers in your router and requires no software be installed.

Free one month trial too.

* And log into their website if your IP changes, but that bit is easy.

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  Matt     
41272.12 In reply to 41272.11 
Thanks Matt, I'll pass on Unblock-us as well.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  Mizzy  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.13 In reply to 41272.5 
I'm not of furrner stock, but when I'm travelling I (and some of my collegues) use Proxpn.com, it gives me local breakout in multiple countries including the uk with bandwidth enough for streaming iplayer etc.

BBC haven't marked it as a bad IP yet but they probably will eventually get around to it.
 
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.14 In reply to 41272.1 
I used Hola last time I was in France and it was excellent for iPlayer.
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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  ALL
41272.15 
Thanks Mizzy & WmA - I'll pass them both on.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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Message 41272.16 deleted 22 May 2015 10:39 by 53NORTH

 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Manthorp      Al JunioR (53NORTH)     
41272.17 In reply to 41272.16 
He has a good point.

That and satbeams.com will give satellite footprints to see if they can actually pickup the signal in their area.

Then they'd need a big enough dish, box etc. Could well be too much hassle because it certainly wouldn't be like getting conventional broadcast TV.
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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  ALL
41272.18 
Ta both.  I think Jane went with Milko's suggestion, but I will pass it on - might beworth it in the long term.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951

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 From:  Jo (JELLS)  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.19 In reply to 41272.18 
If she uses Firefox, there's a MediaHint plug-in that works great for accessing iPlayer. She can download it from here, then just drag it into any open Firefox window. She will need to changer her privacy settings to "always use private browsing" otherwise it won't work properly. That's under the History option - change to custom settings and then tick the private browsing option. Of course, how well it streams will depend on her connection, but it does let you access iPlayer.
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)  
 To:  ALL
41272.20 
I've just been asked about Hola, but with the limit of my knowledge being that it's excellent for iPlayer in France, I'm not sure how to respond.

Any reasons I should recommend tunnelbear/zenmate/unblock-us/proxpn/mediahint/other instead?

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)     
41272.21 In reply to 41272.20 
I've been using Hola in Marrakech and it worked more or less fine.  Once in a while you had to load a new IP address, but generally it was great.

"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)  
 To:  Manthorp      
41272.22 In reply to 41272.21 
quote: Manthorp
I've been using Hola in Marrakech

I misread that as 'I've been using (a) hole in Marrakech', which in your case gave me no pause for thought whatsoever.

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 From:  Manthorp   
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)     
41272.23 In reply to 41272.22 
Tricky to find any hole in Marrakech that's not for hire.

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