VPN & F1TV

[Sammo123]

Afternoon,

I'm looking to get rid of my Sky F1 subscription and move to the F1TV app using a VPN. I've looked at NordVPN as they seem to be the highest rated service, but I'm a bit stuck on what I'm supposed to be buying and how it'll work once I've bought it. They offer the basic VPN and offer my own VPN as an extra. Do I need that or is it not required for what I need it for?

I've downloaded the F1TV app onto my Amazon Firestick so I'll be able to watch the app through that, but how will that link to my VPN?

This is all alien to me so nice simple language would be appreciated

[Shadow R1]

It might be worth asking if that's how others are doing it.

Some of the streaming services have hard baked in the location, meaning the vpn wont do anything for it.
Netflix was the first to do this, although I suspect people will have found a way round it by now.

I can't say for F1, as I don't know anyone using it.

[geeks]

If memory serves (and it's been a while since I looked into this) you do need more than just a VPN you will also need an account and a payment method registered to a country that the pro version of the subscription is available in. I think there is a DNS spoofer you can use to run the F1TV stuff once you have it setup so less of a need for a VPN (Control D is the one that was suggested to me a while back)

[mark_1974]

I've not tried it with F1TV, but generally I found that NordVPN wasn't the best for watching TV services that are not available in different geographic areas. It was a bit hit and miss as to whether it would be detected as a VPN - particularly bad for getting iPlayer when abroad, but also for Canadian services from the UK etc.

[Teppic]

geeks said:

If memory serves (and it's been a while since I looked into this) you do need more than just a VPN you will also need an account and a payment method registered to a country that the pro version of the subscription is available in. I think there is a DNS spoofer you can use to run the F1TV stuff once you have it setup so less of a need for a VPN (Control D is the one that was suggested to me a while back)

From what I can gather, you download, but don’t subscribe to F1TV Pro immediately. Then use the VPN to spoof the country that can get the full package, THEN open the F1TV Pro app and subscribe and use Apple Pay or Google Pay to pay for the subscription which should get around the payment method being registered to a country where it is available.

If I’ve got that wrong then please could someone post how to go about it, but I’m sure when I asked the question before in an F1 thread I was told that this is the best way to do it.

I’m yet to try this myself, but I’ll be giving it a go soon and then hopefully kissing goodbye to Sky.

[eeLee]

ExpressVPN might work better for streaming. You might also find a SmartDNS service is good for you when streaming and avoid the VPN overheads.

Given my location, nobody comes looking when I use my freestreams live1 solution so I don't bother with anything else.

[parabolica]

mark_1974 said:

I've not tried it with F1TV, but generally I found that NordVPN wasn't the best for watching TV services that are not available in different geographic areas. It was a bit hit and miss as to whether it would be detected as a VPN - particularly bad for getting iPlayer when abroad, but also for Canadian services from the UK etc.

Complete opposite for me; I use Nord whilst here in Romania and I’ve never encountered a blocked service, including iPlayer which I was using just last night - as long as I have my location set to the UK. I did notice things like Sky F1’s YouTube channel doesn’t show up unless you are spoofed to the UK.

[Bollah]

F1TV & NordVPN user here.

NordVPN has the following package - https://nordvpn.com/pricing/ If you don't need any of the features, then go for the standard package. Have a look on cashback sites as there is always a deal to be had with NordVPN.

For the F1TV what I found helps is:

• Sign into VPN and connect to country where F1TV is allowed.
• Register on F1TV with your email address
• Go to Play Store (I'm Android) and install F1 TV app
• From there you can pay using Google Pay
• Now you can watch any race live / catch up when connected to VPN

Plus you get to choose the commentary, so if you don't want to hear Crofty anymore, then you can listed to Buxton & Palmer

[geeks]

Bollah said:

Plus you get to choose the commentary, so if you don't want to hear Crofty anymore, then you can listed to Buxton & Palmer

Christ thats a choice, a bit like being asked if you would rather be punched or kicked in the bks!

[J2daG1990]

Well for this weekend at least you catch watch it on Channel 4 in the morning at a decent time because of the crazy time difference!

Not getting up at 6am to watch it live

Just avoid any news articles in the morning and Social Media