thats why i said from day one it was a crock of shit and hundreds of members have rushed out and bought vpn services and such likes, it's not going to make a blind bit of difference.
Watch what happens around 12.30 Saturday when Swansea and MUFC meet, and then again Sunday around 4.00 when Spurs and Chelsea meet, the whole thing will go into meltdown again and those who've spent their money on vpn's will realise they've wasted it.
I can't imagine the Sunday lunchtime game will suffer as it's Huddersfield V Newcastle and not many will be watching
Pablo would you care to tell why are you so strongly against vpn? Surely you are not doubting that it works (e.g. see trickpaul's post above) if/when your isp is blocking you accessing banned sites, which isp's do, and it is super easy for them to do.
If your reason is that vpn doesn't work for some, it is not because it fails to circumvent their isp, but that the problem was with the source (e.g. the source was reselling / accessing sources further upstream that was blocked e.g. by their isp's which they did nothing to circumvent, or a source just got overloaded).
The point is, if everybody has vpn, it is practically impossible for streams between them to be messed about short of cutting wires, or shutting vpn providers down!
I was musing earlier regarding why nobody has been talking about using dns servers that do not belong to their isp. Since I don't watch football and indeed have no (need for) iptv, I have not and couldn't tried it. But I would have thought if anybody like trickpaul e.g., who could prove unquestionably that his 3pm stream failed only because it was blocked by his isp (because the moment he turned his vpn on it worked fine), and if he could watch his stream on e.g. vlc on a pc, then it should be fairly easy for someone like him to make sure the pc use e.g. google's dns server, and see if it works. Just for academic interest, like...
Because all recent routers from virgin, bt and sky have their own dns server address hardwired / locked down and therefore can't be changed by settings within the router, I imagine it can be somewhat challenging technically for many to make their variety of devices use public dns servers. This is also why using a pc for testing is probably best.
The reason I am mentioning all this, is because some above are voicing / hoping for the iptv providers to "do something" their end to make the problem go away without the viewer lifting a finger. Having thought about it, it seems to me this is wishful thinking that has zero prospect of success, and in case anybody disagrees, please give a cogent justification.
Once an isp has decided to redirect an unwelcomed server address to a bit/byte bucket, all an iptv server can do their end, is to spend money to put their streams on different addresses; but then viewers will also need to (pay and) be coordinated to change their "access key", wouldn't they? It would also of course just be a matter of time, perhaps days/weeks, for the isp's (who likely have pretended that they are "users" to catch the servers) to catch on to the new addresses. Why would any iptv server or indeed user want to play such a costly game?
Frankly, for the above reasons, I don't see any viable, sustainable means for you guys beyond vpn, and I don't even watch the stuff. :rolleyes:
Cheers!
