Getting UK TV outside the country

[Timothy Murphy]

I asked a satellite dish shop there (Arezzo), and the man there said I'd need a 2m dish, which would cost (with installation) a little over 1000 euro.

[Timothy Murphy]

I think the only British station Sky Italia broadcasts is BBC World Service.

[Timothy Murphy]

I wouldn't mind waiting.

Do you know any specific sites that do this?

[Andy Burns]

Look it up on a database to see which ISP in which country is responsible for routing it ...

Names really don't come into it, they know your address directly, that's all they need, they can look it up in static regional databases e.g. ripe.net

or use looking glass servers to consult dynamic routing tables to see where traffic goes to get to you

[Andy Burns]

Keep an eye out for which sites are appear on the news for being closed down for copyright violation each week, they'll be the ones ;-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Can't see why it should cost anything like that. Of course mounting it could be expensive. Could it go in the garden?

[Lobster]

I know someone living in the US who's been using one to watch UK telly for years with no problems - don't know the details I'm afraid other than his Mum in Yorkshire has a gizmo attached to her TV (so probably a bit dodgy, then). So, not much help I'm afraid other than presumably yours ought to be able to work?!

David

[The Other Mike]

once, google comes up with good search results.

[The Other Mike]

If the satellite is visible you must have really good eyesight :)

[Bill Wright]

There's a very big price range for dishes of that size. Some of the cheap ones are very flimsy.

Bill

[grimly4]

Forget iplayer - as you've found the proxy solutions aren't all that good, even if they work. Join

, sign up and donate ?10 to get you started with some download credit and fire away. Keep seeding and you'll build up some more credit. Alternatively, if it's documentaries you want, go to

[The Natural Philosopher]

IP addresses.

In general IP addresses are dished out regionally more or less.

If for no reason more than this provides some reasonably efficient routing blocks.

[The Natural Philosopher]

This was SKY UK's satellite.

[Dave Liquorice]

For the geostationary jobbies yes, but look up on a clear night (away from light pollution) an hour or so after sunset and there are plenty of LEO ones to spot.

[sm_jamieson]

Web proxy solutions are not good. However, VPN solutions are fine and work = well with iplayer.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

So how much does a decent enough one cost?

[grimly4]

The footprint's excellent in RoI; I use a 1m dish, but a 60cm is just about adequate for a lot of the southernmost part. However, the OP already knows this, as he has asked about satellite coverage before and knows the answer - I think he's set up now. The question was how to access UK tv on the internet.

[Dave Liquorice]

Does here, mind you it has to be really chucking it down, like 2 or

3" per hour and coming from the direction the satellite is in. More than about 3/8" inch of solid ice over the face of the dish kills it as well. The "signal condition" shows 9/10 as strength and quality of 8/10 or better...

[grimly4]

or or

Knock yourself out.

[The Natural Philosopher]

..which reminds me of an amusing story from my Marconi Elliot GEC days..

...big radar dish, going to important customer..being demoed on trails.. of course it had de-icing, a lovely petal shaped loop of nichrome embedded in the dish..and my friend was the junior engineer in charge of making the dish move up and down, and round and round, and for the piss de 'resistance', switching on the de-icers...which after the manager failed to tell him to switch them off, started to bubble and rip into the fiberglass the dish was made of...Oh dear.

Never mind. In those days the taxpayer paid for ot all in terms of 'defense contracts'

Similar to paying all these 'outreach organisers' today, except that we got to develop interesting technology, instead of large buttocks.