A very specific VPN question
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Through an unexpected twist I now need to get on sky including sports whilst working in Turkey, speaking to a couple of friends they tried Nord VPN but have struggled with it. Any views on the best way to watch it? (ive exhausted the find a bar, ask the place I’m staying for the night etc)
Can you clarify what 'on Sky' means? How, specifically, are you intending to access Sky?
To access a Sky account based in the UK via Sky Go for streaming - yes, it should work.
To access a Sky account based in the UK via recordings on your Sky box - no, it will not work (nor will any VPN as they use latency and other measures to check you are on the same network as the Sky box).
To access a Sky account based in the UK via Sky Go for streaming - yes, it should work.
To access a Sky account based in the UK via recordings on your Sky box - no, it will not work (nor will any VPN as they use latency and other measures to check you are on the same network as the Sky box).
CharlesElliott said:
Can you clarify what 'on Sky' means? How, specifically, are you intending to access Sky?
To access a Sky account based in the UK via Sky Go for streaming - yes, it should work.
To access a Sky account based in the UK via recordings on your Sky box - no, it will not work (nor will any VPN as they use latency and other measures to check you are on the same network as the Sky box).
Sorry, yes just Sky Go. To access a Sky account based in the UK via Sky Go for streaming - yes, it should work.
To access a Sky account based in the UK via recordings on your Sky box - no, it will not work (nor will any VPN as they use latency and other measures to check you are on the same network as the Sky box).
Nord was a problem for me. Sky monitor ip addresses and block sky go for traffic coming from nord and other vpn i believe.
Please note that we do not support access to Sky Go with Android and iOS devices, Smart TVs, TVs, and various other non-desktop devices
From
https://support.nordvpn.com/General-info/SmartPlay...
Please note that we do not support access to Sky Go with Android and iOS devices, Smart TVs, TVs, and various other non-desktop devices
From
https://support.nordvpn.com/General-info/SmartPlay...
I use this (backed on KS actually) - https://www.valevpn.com/ It is a slightly different service, as it creates a 'new' VPN endpoint every time you connect, and as it uses the IP address ranges from AWS, Azure and GCP (depending on which cloud it gets created in etc), it will likely be harder to block unless all of the ranges from those services are blocked.
I haven't used it for Sky, but it has been decent for me.
I haven't used it for Sky, but it has been decent for me.
A Raspberry Pi running PiVPN configured with a Wireguard server and connected to your home broadband, and then either a Wireguard VPN client on your iPad or phone, or even on a travel router such as those sold by Gl.iNet to connect to a smart tv.
Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
PF62 said:
A Raspberry Pi running PiVPN configured with a Wireguard server and connected to your home broadband, and then either a Wireguard VPN client on your iPad or phone, or even on a travel router such as those sold by Gl.iNet to connect to a smart tv.
Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
This is one of the ways if you don’t want to continually be chasing working vpn endpoints.Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
Or you can deploy a openvpn server on your home network.
Some routers now have the vpn service built in such as some asus models.
Alternatively you could try one of the new zero trust network options such as zerotier or trailscale, etc.
Captain_Morgan said:
This is one of the ways if you don’t want to continually be chasing working vpn endpoints.
Or you can deploy a openvpn server on your home network.
Some routers now have the vpn service built in such as some asus models.
Alternatively you could try one of the new zero trust network options such as zerotier or trailscale, etc.
I forgot all about Tailscale myself, which is daft since I use it. For instance, I live in Scotland and my Mum lives in Essex. I have Tailscale set up on her laptop so I can remote in easily if there is a problem, and it uses that connection to also back her files up to my network (which in turn gets backed up to an encrypted cloud service). Or you can deploy a openvpn server on your home network.
Some routers now have the vpn service built in such as some asus models.
Alternatively you could try one of the new zero trust network options such as zerotier or trailscale, etc.
As long as Tailscale is configured it to use the home network/server as an exit node, Sky Go should work using that as well.
Monsterlime said:
I forgot all about Tailscale myself, which is daft since I use it. For instance, I live in Scotland and my Mum lives in Essex. I have Tailscale set up on her laptop so I can remote in easily if there is a problem, and it uses that connection to also back her files up to my network (which in turn gets backed up to an encrypted cloud service).
As long as Tailscale is configured it to use the home network/server as an exit node, Sky Go should work using that as well.
I’m not a user but hear good things about it, the only downside in the op’s use case is he’ll need a 24/7 device to host the client. I’m not aware of any routers (bar pfsense) that can host a ztn client so perhaps a router with openvpn/WireGuard would be a simpler solution.As long as Tailscale is configured it to use the home network/server as an exit node, Sky Go should work using that as well.
Though all this depends on the op’s current broadband throughput.
Captain_Morgan said:
PF62 said:
A Raspberry Pi running PiVPN configured with a Wireguard server and connected to your home broadband, and then either a Wireguard VPN client on your iPad or phone, or even on a travel router such as those sold by Gl.iNet to connect to a smart tv.
Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
This is one of the ways if you don’t want to continually be chasing working vpn endpoints.Provided you have a decent home broadband connection with sufficient upload speed it works well with all the UK streaming services I have tried (although I don’t have Sky to test it) as you simply appear to be at home.
Or you can deploy a openvpn server on your home network.
Some routers now have the vpn service built in such as some asus models.
Alternatively you could try one of the new zero trust network options such as zerotier or trailscale, etc.
andy_s said:
www.homingsystems.com sorta does the same [links to your home network]. I used it for a few years but not recently. Handy if you struggle to get beyond '...running...' in the post by PF62, like me!
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