I have Virgin Media broadband and all the sky sports and TNT channels as part of the package for a property in the UK.
I spend a lot of time in Ireland and unfortunately when I try to use the sky sports app on my phone in Ireland, it won’t allow me to watch anything because it knows where I am and states that the service is not accessible in that country.
Would anyone know how I can get around this? I thought that is what a VPN was for but I tried it and didn’t work. I log I to the VPN, choose a UK server but it still doesn’t work. The app works fine as soon I am back in UK.
Tbh I’m not sure what a VPN does but it was suggested to me previously but maybe i should be using some alternative method for try and either hide my location or make it thinks I’m still in UK.
Any advice appreciated, thanks.
You can use “BCE Premium TV” and you don’t need any VPN
A VPN creates a secure tunnel between your machine and another network. The intended purpose is to connect a machine remotely as if it were locally connected on that network. Eg. for a remote worker to access local resources as if they were plugged in to the company network. These days VPNs are advertised as a way to “hide your IP address” or bypass regional restrictions. All your network traffic passes via the VPN servers, so any connection to eg Sky Sports streaming server appears to come from the VPN endpoint in UK, and not your laptop in Ireland.
Streaming probably won’t work because the services are detecting that you’re using a VPN to bypass their terms of service. There’s not much you can do about that, other than to try other VPN servers/services in the hopes of finding one that the streaming service doesn’t block. Probably you should talk to Virgin Media to see what their options are, you obviously don’t want to violate their terms of service (see Rule 8). It may end up being their product simply isn’t suitable for your use case.