Why live Olympics YouTube streaming is blocked in South Africa

[daveza]

1. Google expatshield, install and connect.

Any downside ?

[mercurial]

There are tons of sites to stream from. No need to install anything.

[simmo44]

I think it's disgusting from Multichoice and Supersport. It just reinforces the decision to cancel that subscription.

[wily me]

Any downside ?

Tried to install it just now, not happy, it wanted to install network drivers and all kinds of things which failed, I had to uninstall. Will try again later.

[wily me]

There are tons of sites to stream from. No need to install anything.

Linky's?

[Keeper]

OK so how do we get around this? Surely there must be an easy way. Use a proxy hosted outside RSA, change your country in your Youtube/Google account?

I saw this thread about Navi-X for XBMC:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...Media-Overload!

They have Olympic channels there that work no problem!

[BlaQ_PhoeniX]

Any downside ?

It doesn't work behind proxied networks such as universities etc and if you browse with it, it puts little closable ads on top of your pages. If you only use it for the stream though the ads shouldn't affect you. Besides that it's painless to install/uninstall from my experience on win7 x64.

/offtopic but are you the same daveza from /r/rugybunion ?

[daveza]

Tried to install it just now, not happy, it wanted to install network drivers and all kinds of things which failed, I had to uninstall. Will try again later.

I tried and it seemed to work but it slowed down all other sites - removed.

[daveza]

/offtopic but are you the same daveza from /r/rugybunion ?

Nope - sounds like way too much hard work.

[[)roi(]]

Time for the Gov to put an end to this monopoly

[BlaQ_PhoeniX]

Nope - sounds like way too much hard work.

I meant /r/cricket -_- confused the two.

Anyway. Even though I am able to view the olympics on supersport I much prefer the features of BBC's iPlayer. Provides a lot of useful features while watching without disrupting viewing as well as providing PVR type functionality. Expatshield is the best free option I've come across for using iplayer.

[d7e7r7]

Not connecting. What "Internet address", "Destination" and "IP address"?

Thanx

It does work... the destination is either vpn1.xpdo.net or vpn2.xpdo.net... if you need help I can help you via teamviewer... pm me

[siraman]

Disgusted nonetheless by Monochoice.Yes,many pro's and con's have been put up on this thread regarding broadcast rights, business models and so on, but one, just has a lingering bitter taste that all business in RSA just want's to "RAPE" the living daylights out, of the hard working( some of us) and over-taxed small tax base South Africans(Yes...the telkom's,Voda/MTN's,Monochoice,etc etc) when it comes to to just "kicking it off" after a hard "taxing" day, without some monopolistic turd extracting it's "pound of flesh".

With that,thanx to some of the forumites for trying to give us the work around to some of these obnoxious restrictions, even though we are challenged(some of us) in the ways of "geeknology"(thanx guys),and, lest it's not known by some forumites who have "tonnes" of bandwidth to burn( few luckly ones) here's my 2 cents in case missed(slightly off-topic)..http://www.howtogeek.com/117528/how-...-in-the-world/ (I liked,and it worked a few weeks back and don't know if it's been "restricted".Later!

[mercurial]

Linky's?

There are two threads on Olympics that contains links and there is a thread on sports streaming links. Anyway, here are a few:

Www.sportlemon.tv
Myp2p.mu
Www.lshunter.tv

[TirNaNog]

Tried to install it just now, not happy, it wanted to install network drivers and all kinds of things which failed, I had to uninstall. Will try again later.

Right click installer and run as administrator?