Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
None of this should happen. If set-up well, your experience should be pretty much as stable as Amazon Prime or Netflix.
What are you using to stream?
Another firestick deal.
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What are you using to stream?
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Cinema HD through a decent (not free) vpn
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I've chickened out a bit on the whole Internet streaming thing, but am very happy with the Firestick's streaming of stuff on my server, over wifi. As it is, there's probably 10 years' worth of "films I really must watch some time" on there... 
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
And it's a new 4k Firestick?
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
yes.
Don't worry, overall it's good enough, but there are limitations. Or its my fault for not reading instructions
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Ok. Go with me on this. If you ask Alexa to put this in your basket. You get it for £24.99.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
I wouldn’t know how!
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Easy peasy. Once it's in your basket you can check it out online if you want.I wouldn’t know how!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
My Alexa cheerfully told me I was about to run out of coffee the other day. I checked, and she was right 
ruffneck23
front left
Black friday deals
Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (includes TV controls) | HD streaming device : Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo
Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (includes TV controls) | HD streaming device : Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Media Lounge is quite good on the Firestick , torrent based TV series and films. Need to download unlinked ( via downloader app) and enter the code 12341234 to get that and a whole range of other apps
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I realised earlier this week that my current F/S actually isn't the 4k one that you lot have all bought recently, but the 2020 version here.
I've upgraded to 4k with a Black Friday deal for £24.99, so my old stick is going spare. It's side-loaded with an up-to-date (October) Kodi build, and Cinema HD, and is only about a year old, so should be plug-and-play.
I'm putting it on the recycle thread too, but if anyone wants it just PM me. I'll post it on Monday.
I've upgraded to 4k with a Black Friday deal for £24.99, so my old stick is going spare. It's side-loaded with an up-to-date (October) Kodi build, and Cinema HD, and is only about a year old, so should be plug-and-play.
I'm putting it on the recycle thread too, but if anyone wants it just PM me. I'll post it on Monday.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I bought the posh one for £36 with newfangled 'Wifi 6' whatever the fuck that is. Works though, even though my bedroom is a bit of a wifi blackhole. Only need it to create, err, backup copies from streaming services 
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I bought the posh one for £36 with newfangled 'Wifi 6' whatever the fuck that is. Works though, even though my bedroom is a bit of a wifi blackhole. Only need it to create, err, backup copies from streaming services
It's the latest WiFi standard and useless unless your router supports it.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
It's the latest WiFi standard and useless unless your router supports it.
Fucking works though. Whereas my telly and Skybox fail miserably
paul mckenna
Bellend
Are there any expats here who've vpn'd successfully to beeb iPlayer? Have bought ipvanish but no dice. Apparently they are quite aggressive on their blacklisting of VPN providers
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Very difficult in my experience, a VPN that works one time often doesn't work the next. One of the problems is that often the VPN supplier doesn't change the proxy UK address frequently hence getting caught out and as you say a lot of dosh is invested in stopping vpns , mainly due to copyright/licensing agreements.
Ironsocket might be worth a try as at least you can contact them and they are good at responding, not used them for Player but for Dazn and some other football providers they've been very obliging in trying to fix the issue.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
I do it from sweden using a U.K. bought fire stick, but not with vpn. I use smartdnsproxy (.com) who you sign up to, then put their dns servers in the IP settings of the firestick and I never have trouble accessing iplayer, All4, ITV hub, etc.
Their setup tutorial will tell you their DNS setup needs to go on your router, so effectively all your traffic DNS requests goes via them. I haven’t done that, just added them to the firetv stick itself and it still works.
If you’re interested in signing up to them, let me know and I’ll see if they let me give you an intro code for a discount or somesuch. Or if it’s not time critical to you, maybe wait and see if they have a New Year’s sale on subscriptions. I know they were doing some discounts around Black Friday
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
TuneIn Radio is a really good one.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Thanks, will get! My work radio just died and will take ages to get warranty replaced and I chucked the cheapy home one last week because one of the cats pissed on it.
electroplated
off minehead
This is a bit of a rambling and vague query but I've been happily using an various devices over the years (Laptops with HDMI cable, Apple TV 2/3/4, Firestick, PS3/4, etc) to send content (from torrents/Netflix/iPlayer/IPTV/Prime/other) from my laptop or phone to the TV screen quite happily but have been roped into trying to get a mates ancient Nokia Android phone to cast YouTube and other web videos and music to their "dumb" TV and can't decide the best way of doing it.
I've got a spare old Apple TV3 or a Raspberry Pi 3B box (currently with LibreElec + Kodi) to give them to help but not sure what will be the best option as I don't have an Android device to test with and don't want to turn up there and have to do a load of testing and troubleshooting.
Any suggestions much appreciated!
I've got a spare old Apple TV3 or a Raspberry Pi 3B box (currently with LibreElec + Kodi) to give them to help but not sure what will be the best option as I don't have an Android device to test with and don't want to turn up there and have to do a load of testing and troubleshooting.
Any suggestions much appreciated!
Your question may have already been solved- but just to add I've got onto iplayer & Sky Sports using Surfshark. I'm currently in Greece.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Honestly just get a firestick and remove the Nokia from the equation.
electroplated
off minehead
Totally agree and I would recommend that but they are super skint and I'm just trying to get something working for them today with the hardware I have on hand - I don't mind doing all the fiddly techie bits for them to set it up I just don't know what software works best to mimic a chromecast/firestick that I can install on the Raspberry Pi - there seem to be several different ways of doing it.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
How do you value your time? A Firestick is 30 quid. Buy them one and save yourself several hours faffing
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I've found VPN addresses inexplicably sometimes work on my PC for player but not on the apps on a firestick or android tv.
Completely different news I got a months subscription to Setanta Khazistan/Ukraine , all EPL, La Ligue, Bundesleague , Serie A games live with that works with a VPN for less than £3 a month
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