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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:15 am
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Originally Posted by mickeyjaw
If you are using a corporate laptop with remote access then you probably already have one. Log into your corporate network and voila! It will look to the BBC like you are in the office...
Not so great if your head office is in Paris
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:19 am
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listening right now using the BBC feed via the BBC website
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:23 am
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Challenging. I looked on through work (costing me another £5 to get my token on my phone) but when I try to log in to BBC the connection page is unavailable.

The youtube link is blocked both directly from the air and also via VPN

Just trying to download Hola.

Here's lunch (at the Oval) to give some breathing space
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:24 am
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Cook 37 not out at lunch and England 68 for 1 (Jennings got 23. Moeen in at number 3
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:24 am
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Originally Posted by fotographer
listening right now using the BBC feed via the BBC website
In a plane????
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:26 am
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Thanks - I logged in through work (NHS so not really corporate) but still couldn't get through...
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:40 am
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Not even Hola works - I unblock BBC website through Hola and end up with a link to Lsten to TMS overseas which is the YouTube site which is blocked.

Fate is against me...
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 6:53 am
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Cook dropped on 37
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:07 am
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Try ExpressVPN, cost less than 10$/month and has a 30 days trial. They have gateways in all major countries and I never had a problem getting around any location content blocking using it.

https://www.expressvpn.com/

Happily paying for it since they offer great connectivity and speed, good customer service and support and if you choose to 100% anonymity.
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:27 am
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Not sure how they know, but some sites do. I frequently use VPN while in Israel. More and more American sites tell me to turn off the VPN.

Especially frustrating since my cable TV provider falls into this category. They used to let me suspend service. No longer, so I'll paying with zero access.

Did you find a satisfactory workaround?
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 7:47 am
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Originally Posted by awayIgo
Not sure how they know, but some sites do. I frequently use VPN while in Israel. More and more American sites tell me to turn off the VPN.

Especially frustrating since my cable TV provider falls into this category. They used to let me suspend service. No longer, so I'll paying with zero access.

Did you find a satisfactory workaround?
I did - 30 seconds ago. Thanks to fassy. Connection isn't great but I can hear the happy sound of TMS at 37,000 feet which is somewhat surreal... I'd rather be at The Oval though
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 8:02 am
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In time to hear Cook get 50....

More wine
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 8:15 am
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Originally Posted by InFF
In a plane????
no at home with talk sport thur the sonis and the cricket thru my computer
My wife does not understand how I can listen to both at the same time
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Old Sep 7, 2018, 8:24 am
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Talking
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no at home with talk sport thur the sonis and the cricket thru my computer
My wife does not understand how I can listen to both at the same time
Does it affect your typing listening to two things at once?

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Old Sep 7, 2018, 9:16 am
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Originally Posted by skywardhunter
If you use Chrome install an extension called "Hola" it's a simple VPN which is free and works for me
I'd recommend staying far away from free VPNs in general, and from Hola in particular. VPNs can see all the traffic between your machine and the rest of the internet – the domains you connect to at the very least, but literally everything you do on unencrypted connections. If you install a browser extension, they can potentially collect even more data on you, including everything you type into any website, encrypted or not. Running a VPN costs money (they need to relay all traffic between their users and the internet), so if they're not charging you, their business model almost certainly consists of selling your data.

Hola was involved in some particularly dodgy business practices a few years ago, including running a Tor exit node on your computer (if you don't know what that means, you're not the kind of person who should be running a Tor node). It's likely that they're still doing some or even all of those things.

Even if you're not doing anything particularly sensitive, I would at the very least recommend paying for a VPN (they're normally around $5/month).
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