Irish proxy - Watching RTE in US, UK or anywhere Outside Ireland
I have had a few emails asking me if it is possible to use an Irish proxy or VPN program to watch other channels. Basically they want to know how can I watch Irish TV in UK or Europe. So I thought I'd try a few out, the one I'm trying here is accessing a station called RTE player which is an Irish TV Channel.
I normally use Identity Cloaker to access this channel, as RTE recently updated the flash player it uses for RTE player which blocks just using a simple Irish proxy.
Identity Cloaker is a VPN based service, and one of the few that will allow you to watch RTE in UK or anywhere outside Ireland. Can you Watch RTE in the UK or US ? Well first of all I had to test it, I tried to access RTE from the UK first without an Irish proxy but it didn't work too well. Here's the screen I got.
As you can see it detected that I wasn't trying to access from the Republic or Northern Ireland by my IP address and so blocked my access.
Not a great surprise, seemingly everything you do online nowadays is tailored to your location and crucially your IP address.
Although this is very annoying if you happen to be living or working abroad. The person who asked me to access this was a student from Ireland studying in the US, she just wanted to watch the Late Show on RTE.
Anyway now I have a chance to access the same page after connecting through one of Identity Cloaker's Irish VPN servers.
Here's the program, it's very simple and is not much more than a little drop down box that sits in your Task bar. This is the PC version here, but the Mac version is very similar. You simply select one of the Irish proxies and select connect.
Of course if I'm just surfing anonymously, which country is not that important, but to bypass the IP restrictions of most media sites online you have to select the right country.
So for BBC you need to choose a UK server, Hulu and all the US stations need a US server and so on. The network is growing fast so you have access to a lot of the worlds media now with this program. In fact they now have servers in the following locations Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italian, Dutch, Japan, USA, UK to name just a few - plus unlike many companies you get access to all of them for your subscription.
Many companies just let you have access to one country and charge extra for access to the others. However if you want to watch RTE then you'll need a company who has an Irish IP address list. There is some incredible content available over the world through these connections - try checking out the US TV channels, the Canadian or Australian there are loads of fantastic content.
I actually use the French servers a lot as my kids can practice their French by watching their favorite shows on M6 Replay (the French Media Player). Others are the amazing Pandora, the online jukebox which is restricted to the US.
Anyway here we're just concerned with using the Irish proxy in order to connect to the RTE player web site.
You'll need to restart your browser when you connect through a proxy server or VPN.
So I select an Irish proxy and restarted my browser. You can see the change straight away, what you see is decided by your IP address, my home page has switched to Google.IE and all my search results would now be based on Irish results.
This would happen whilst I was connected to the Irish proxy by default. But what I wanted to check was if I still got blocked from the RTE Player web site. Well I went to the RTE player web site and it worked straight away, here's the same web page as above when I accessed via the Irish proxy server.
Here you can see I was able to access the RTE player with no restrictions because it believed I had an Irish IP address like this. If you're outside the country and not using some Irish proxy or VPN then you'd get the international version which allows limited access.
Just as I can watch BBC Iplayer, ITV, Channel 4 by choosing a UK server or Hulu, NBC and Pandora selecting a US Server. Here's a method using an Irish proxy well actually a VPN.
Once you see how easy it is to use and the amazing shows that you can stream from all across the globe it will open up the internet so much more. You will never get blocked based on location at all, just as long as Identity Cloaker have a server for it. They're definitely the best choice for an Irish server.
Try it out, the subscriptions are monthly and you can cancel whenever you like. Most of the other TV proxy companies are charging more than they do for a solitary country -
Identity Cloaker is a VPN based service, and one of the few that will allow you to watch RTE in UK or anywhere outside Ireland. Can you Watch RTE in the UK or US ? Well first of all I had to test it, I tried to access RTE from the UK first without an Irish proxy but it didn't work too well. Here's the screen I got.
As you can see it detected that I wasn't trying to access from the Republic or Northern Ireland by my IP address and so blocked my access.
Not a great surprise, seemingly everything you do online nowadays is tailored to your location and crucially your IP address.
Although this is very annoying if you happen to be living or working abroad. The person who asked me to access this was a student from Ireland studying in the US, she just wanted to watch the Late Show on RTE.Now Using an Irish Proxy
Anyway now I have a chance to access the same page after connecting through one of Identity Cloaker's Irish VPN servers.
So for BBC you need to choose a UK server, Hulu and all the US stations need a US server and so on. The network is growing fast so you have access to a lot of the worlds media now with this program. In fact they now have servers in the following locations Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Italian, Dutch, Japan, USA, UK to name just a few - plus unlike many companies you get access to all of them for your subscription.
Many companies just let you have access to one country and charge extra for access to the others. However if you want to watch RTE then you'll need a company who has an Irish IP address list. There is some incredible content available over the world through these connections - try checking out the US TV channels, the Canadian or Australian there are loads of fantastic content.
This would happen whilst I was connected to the Irish proxy by default. But what I wanted to check was if I still got blocked from the RTE Player web site. Well I went to the RTE player web site and it worked straight away, here's the same web page as above when I accessed via the Irish proxy server.
Here you can see I was able to access the RTE player with no restrictions because it believed I had an Irish IP address like this. If you're outside the country and not using some Irish proxy or VPN then you'd get the international version which allows limited access.
Just as I can watch BBC Iplayer, ITV, Channel 4 by choosing a UK server or Hulu, NBC and Pandora selecting a US Server. Here's a method using an Irish proxy well actually a VPN.
Once you see how easy it is to use and the amazing shows that you can stream from all across the globe it will open up the internet so much more. You will never get blocked based on location at all, just as long as Identity Cloaker have a server for it. They're definitely the best choice for an Irish server.
Try it out, the subscriptions are monthly and you can cancel whenever you like. Most of the other TV proxy companies are charging more than they do for a solitary country -
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I had a lot of spam comments when I enabled anonymous posting I must have lost your question then - please accept my apologies !
Ok you have a few options to solve your problem. You can relay the proxy but only if you use the VPN mode and use something like Netcat to create a relay.
But I think you have simpler options,
1) there is a Beta version of IDC for the MAC. It's based on an application called Tunnelblick - works well but you need to set it up manually. If you want to try it - I have the files and instructions drop me an email using the contact link above and I'll send you them. I'm pretty hopeless with MACs though so for support you'd better ask Identity Cloaker themselves
2) If you're mainly interested in the UK servers for Iplayer you can use the proxy directly from any browser. You won't get the encryption and SSH tunnel but it works just fine for BBC Iplayer.
Just select any of the Identity Cloaker UK4 Proxy IP addresses and use port 4040 and you'll connect straight through.
Hope that helps :)
Well you can download content from BBc Iplayer just using Identity Cloaker, you just need to use the VPN mode and the download button on the Iplayer screen (proxy mode won't work for this)
I'm not sure that you'll be able to save RTE content at the moment, it's only currently offered in a streaming format.
Don't think Nero Liquid would help you in this instance.
Hope this helps.
I added a video to the post above to show how you can access RTE Player outside Ireland.
Didn't notice that show though.
Thanks for the heads up.
But it seems to be working for me - streaming now through Ireland 3 and IE from the UK.
Try using the Ireland 3 server and IE as your browser
I'll check the other servers out later as rushing out now.
Good Luck,
WG
Is a irish torrent site some RTE stuff there lots of others also check it out for yourself
So an IP address might work for a while then stop working, then be ok.
So basically you're not going to get a 100% reliable service for RTE player outside Ireland from anyone at the moment. What you would need to do is find the VPN with the most Irish IP addresses so you can swap and change.
Identity Cloaker have about 20 Irish addresses and Overplay have about 4 I think.
Hope that helps
Just checked and RTE Player is working fine 02/02/13.
Not looked at Unotelly but might give it a go, didn't realise it was a Smart DNS solution.
Wg
I'm not sure haven't used Unotelly for years. RTE routinely blocks IP addresses for VPN and proxies - if you can in Unotelly switch to another Irish IP address. Just tried it using Identity Cloaker and it works ok.