Has anyone actually lost their TV signal yet?

[Miro]

Couldn't get Ch4, or More4 last night - breaking up terribly. Bloody Irish!

[gina59]

Irish version , last night really bad, ok this morning, then bad again this evening.

[satandpcguy]

Irish version , last night really bad, ok this morning, then bad again this evening.

Well it is on 2as north beam, and that beam does vary in reception during the day.
We on the Costa blanca, notice this a lot when even 23.4ms dishes can struggle to keep it 24/7!

[firsttango]

Wow 23.4mtr dish Jodrell Bank on the Costa lol

[Lyric]

Just about half the size of the Lovell telescope

[costakid]

if that doesn't pick it up nothing will.

[USINSPAIN]

At last managed to load expatshield without it asking for €4.99 but still cannot get onto BBC Iplayer
Had to load expatshield onto IE not Chrome

[firsttango]

Add Zenmate to your chrome browser and et voila iplayer et al

[Enrique]

Hi USINSPAIN,

Have IE as your Default Browser.........fire off IE when front page comes up, fire off Expat Shield from the short cut on desktop, this will load into IE , connect and get all the ads and stuff.

Fire up another Browser like Palemoon and type bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv in URL bar and you're good to go.

[Wicksey]

Add Zenmate to your chrome browser and et voila iplayer et al

But you cannot use the BBCiPlayer download program with that, can you?

[Enrique]

You can't download with Zenmate , just watch on-line.

Need Expat Shield and BBC iplayer downloads to download.

[alisonb]

I've been using the free trial of SmartyDNS, and it's working fine for me. Our provider (BB4S) provides a UK proxy, but it only lasts for 3 hours, then you have to start it again. Don't know why that would be - does it cost them something? So SmartyDNS is more convenient, as once it's going, it stays going

[Lyric]

And we think it works better too Alison

[USINSPAIN]

Thanks again BBC IPLAYER & ITv I PLAYER up and running wife is planning our future again

[Mowser]

If anyone in the Malaga > Frigiliana area is finding download speed problems with Movistar there should be a fix either late tonight or tomorrow. This also affects people in this area with other ADSL providers as they use Movistar cabling.

A technician came round again (3rd time) and having eliminated all other possibilities, he went to the Frigiliana exchange. He phoned me after an hour or so to say that the line from Malaga to this area is corrupt. He confirmed that speeds were fine in the morning and slowed down during the day to less than half the normal. He also said it had nothing to do with all the ex-pats streaming films!

I'll also post this on the computer thread.

[snorbs]

Have been using zenmate recently - really helps
However this morning I tried my first download from bbc iplayer and nothing happens
my status shows as online in the bbc iplayer downloads tool but nothing downloads
any ideas??

[MartinEB]

Enrique on Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:51 pm

You can't download with Zenmate , just watch on-line.

Need Expat Shield and BBC iplayer downloads to download.

snorbs on Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:28 am

Have been using zenmate recently - really helps
However this morning I tried my first download from bbc iplayer and nothing happens
my status shows as online in the bbc iplayer downloads tool but nothing downloads
any ideas??

?

[barry]

So I have given up with ZenMate and downloaded the trial of smartydns and it works fine, but I can't understand how to alter my router to get my Roku box to work. Has anybody done this who could explain it in an understandable manner please?

[Enrique]

Hi barry.
Find out the DNS settings that smartydns sets up (hint look at your Network adapter config), then login to your router and put then in.

For a more specific procedure Google your Router make and model .........

An Example...............

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/hom ... file_en_us

[Martin Page]

I've tried this with Smartydns and Unblockus - both work fine on the individual computers but neither will work with the router.
I was told by the 'help' that my ISP, Telefonica- land line, was using IP transparency (?) - But others seem to be able to get it to work ... just put the DNS information your given into your Routers DNS settings and leave everything else the same.