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2011-01-17
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Try the Onion Router from the Tor project. Google it if you want to know more about the Tor project.
You can use it on the n900 by installing the Tor Status Area Applet.
Works like a charm.
You can use it on the n900 by installing the Tor Status Area Applet.
Works like a charm.
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2011-01-17
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while you can use tor & it's possible to set a country specific endpoint (so you appear to have a UK ip address), I'd be surprised if you'd get sufficient throughput to stream iPlayer.
what I do is to run openProxy on my UK PC and ssh into it when abroad - that way, I get a d/l speed at the foreign location which is nore or less as fast as my UK broadband upload speed - more than enough to watch iPlayer.
what I do is to run openProxy on my UK PC and ssh into it when abroad - that way, I get a d/l speed at the foreign location which is nore or less as fast as my UK broadband upload speed - more than enough to watch iPlayer.
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2011-01-17
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Thanks n900user259....checking this out now...
IP hiding shouldn't affect speed that much should it, desktop users seem to be able to hide their IP and still stream hula.com etc without issue ?
IP hiding shouldn't affect speed that much should it, desktop users seem to be able to hide their IP and still stream hula.com etc without issue ?
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2011-01-17
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Well, it's the way that you're IP is "hidden" that will affect speed. When using the onion router your connection will be routed through the Tor network and that will indeed have impact on speed.
Answering your initial question I focused on the IP-hiding part, not the part about being able to use iplayer. Sorry about that. Are you skilled enough to try the suggestion made by Pigro?
Answering your initial question I focused on the IP-hiding part, not the part about being able to use iplayer. Sorry about that. Are you skilled enough to try the suggestion made by Pigro?
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2011-01-17
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ahh i see, well playing vids is not so much a problem, just nice to be able to hide ;-)
Problem though, installed, all working etc, however the https://check.torproject.org/ fails and i do not appear to be hidden.
I did not put in a bridge IP which i assume i dont need to.
Any ideas ?
Problem though, installed, all working etc, however the https://check.torproject.org/ fails and i do not appear to be hidden.
I did not put in a bridge IP which i assume i dont need to.
Any ideas ?
Originally Posted by n900user259
Well, it's the way that you're IP is "hidden" that will affect speed. When using the onion router your connection will be routed through the Tor network and that will indeed have impact on speed.
Answering your initial question I focused on the IP-hiding part, not the part about being able to use iplayer. Sorry about that. Are you skilled enough to try the suggestion made by Pigro?
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2011-01-18
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desktop users who are streaming video with a proxy are likely paying for a commercial (=high bandwidth) proxy service, rather than the free (=low bandwidth) tor network..
nope, you don't need to worry about the bridge ip. Probably a dumb question, but - once tor was installed, did you actually enable it (via its status icon)? It is inactive until you specifically turn it on. Likely not the issue, but thought I'd mention just in case. If not that, I'd suggest posting for help on a tor-specific thread, where someon more able to diagnose/fix your issue may be lurking :-)
BTW - I have in the past managed to run iPlayer on my N900 via tor (on a WifI connection from abroad) - but not for any length of time, and with plenty of buffering - however there's no reason why you couldn't use the download feature of iPlayer with tor to get around that. The one that stumped me was the 4OD (channel 4 UK) player - it is a horrendous bag of spanners (to enforce the mandatory watching of the embedded adverts) an while proxying to a UK IP will get the replay started, it craps out following the intro with an error that is (superficially) unrelated tot the proxy, just says that the session has timed out ... but restarting doesn't help and I can't find any way around it. Oh well, just have to go out and have fun while abroad instead of watching UKTV on the TV out in my hotel room :-)
nope, you don't need to worry about the bridge ip. Probably a dumb question, but - once tor was installed, did you actually enable it (via its status icon)? It is inactive until you specifically turn it on. Likely not the issue, but thought I'd mention just in case. If not that, I'd suggest posting for help on a tor-specific thread, where someon more able to diagnose/fix your issue may be lurking :-)
BTW - I have in the past managed to run iPlayer on my N900 via tor (on a WifI connection from abroad) - but not for any length of time, and with plenty of buffering - however there's no reason why you couldn't use the download feature of iPlayer with tor to get around that. The one that stumped me was the 4OD (channel 4 UK) player - it is a horrendous bag of spanners (to enforce the mandatory watching of the embedded adverts) an while proxying to a UK IP will get the replay started, it craps out following the intro with an error that is (superficially) unrelated tot the proxy, just says that the session has timed out ... but restarting doesn't help and I can't find any way around it. Oh well, just have to go out and have fun while abroad instead of watching UKTV on the TV out in my hotel room :-)
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If you buy a niche, highly modifiable smartphone and proceed to mess it up by blindly screwing around, don't just blame the phone, also blame yourelf.
n900: "with power comes responsibility".
If you buy a niche, highly modifiable smartphone and proceed to mess it up by blindly screwing around, don't just blame the phone, also blame yourelf.
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2011-01-18
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nope, i have it enabled, and the little onion icon up top is present too, its just i get a socket not found etc type error when going to the check page per instructions.
Ill try again now using corporate wifi incase it was something to do with my provider.
As i say video would be good, but its more to just be able to visit sites that lock me out.
Cheers
Colm
Ill try again now using corporate wifi incase it was something to do with my provider.
As i say video would be good, but its more to just be able to visit sites that lock me out.
Cheers
Colm
Originally Posted by Pigro
desktop users who are streaming video with a proxy are likely paying for a commercial (=high bandwidth) proxy service, rather than the free (=low bandwidth) tor network..
nope, you don't need to worry about the bridge ip. Probably a dumb question, but - once tor was installed, did you actually enable it (via its status icon)? It is inactive until you specifically turn it on. Likely not the issue, but thought I'd mention just in case. If not that, I'd suggest posting for help on a tor-specific thread, where someon more able to diagnose/fix your issue may be lurking :-)
BTW - I have in the past managed to run iPlayer on my N900 via tor (on a WifI connection from abroad) - but not for any length of time, and with plenty of buffering - however there's no reason why you couldn't use the download feature of iPlayer with tor to get around that. The one that stumped me was the 4OD (channel 4 UK) player - it is a horrendous bag of spanners (to enforce the mandatory watching of the embedded adverts) an while proxying to a UK IP will get the replay started, it craps out following the intro with an error that is (superficially) unrelated tot the proxy, just says that the session has timed out ... but restarting doesn't help and I can't find any way around it. Oh well, just have to go out and have fun while abroad instead of watching UKTV on the TV out in my hotel room :-)
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2011-06-29
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Hi,
Did anyone find an easy way that worked to either hide your IP or to get a UK IP address for watching the various UK IPlayers?
I have found a couple as below but none as good as IPlayer.
TV Player works but there's very few channels.
TV catchup seems to have a lot of channels but again it's UK IP address dependant.
SPB TV is also good but the channels are rubbish lol
Also are we anywhere near having silverlight for maemo so we can watck Sky Player?
Any Ideas?
Anyone?
Did anyone find an easy way that worked to either hide your IP or to get a UK IP address for watching the various UK IPlayers?
I have found a couple as below but none as good as IPlayer.
TV Player works but there's very few channels.
TV catchup seems to have a lot of channels but again it's UK IP address dependant.
SPB TV is also good but the channels are rubbish lol
Also are we anywhere near having silverlight for maemo so we can watck Sky Player?
Any Ideas?
Anyone?
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2011-06-29
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- get a uk proxy
- silverlight is a microsoft tech. You can forget about having it on N900.
- silverlight is a microsoft tech. You can forget about having it on N900.
Could not find any thread for this, but is there any current app or is anyone making an app to hide the ip of your internet connect.
for example expatshield will allow you to set your ip to UK to allow things like bbc iplayer to work
Any ideas
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