RTE player

[armaghniac]

Not available outside the 26 counties.

As I said before, RTÉ documentaries likes this are generally available throughout the island, to anyone whose IP number is on the island, although certain intl sports are not.

[Main Street]

Not available outside the 26 counties.

As I said before, RTÉ documentaries likes this are generally available throughout the island, to anyone whose IP number is on the island, although certain intl sports are not.

The Fanatic Heart documentary in question is a BBC 4 production (afaia)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b076qphj/bob-geldof-on-wb-yeats-a-fanatic-heart

[Ulick]

On a bit of an aside. If you want to bypass all the geo-blocking crap you could use a smart DNS service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_DNS_proxy_server). With these you make a couple of minor configuration changes on your device or router and geo-blocked content is routed through a proxy in the appropriate country but all other content you get as normal. There are a number of different ones you can use (http://www.bestsmartdns.net/). Personally for getting the iPlayer app on the telly to work down here in Saorstát Éireann I use Smart DNS Proxy (https://www.smartdnsproxy.com). Well worth a few Euro a month especially for the excellent on-demand BBC programming which our children love.

[gallsman]

On a bit of an aside. If you want to bypass all the geo-blocking crap you could use a smart DNS service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_DNS_proxy_server). With these you make a couple of minor configuration changes on your device or router and geo-blocked content is routed through a proxy in the appropriate country but all other content you get as normal. There are a number of different ones you can use (http://www.bestsmartdns.net/). Personally for getting the iPlayer app on the telly to work down here in Saorstát Éireann I use Smart DNS Proxy (https://www.smartdnsproxy.com). Well worth a few Euro a month especially for the excellent on-demand BBC programming which our children love.

I use Smart DNS and it's fantastic. iPLayer, RTE player, All 4 etc working great over here in Spain.

[BennyCake]

Not available outside the 26 counties.

As I said before, RTÉ documentaries likes this are generally available throughout the island, to anyone whose IP number is on the island, although certain intl sports are not.

The Fanatic Heart documentary in question is a BBC 4 production (afaia)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b076qphj/bob-geldof-on-wb-yeats-a-fanatic-heart

Found it. Thanks.

[galwayman]

Anyone know of a VPN service that works now with the Rte Player when abroad - without going down the proxy route of having to configure routers etc.?
Will be in France for the AI football final and wondering if I have an alternative to GAA Go?
Trying to avoid having to travel somewhere to watch it - pretty sure there won't be anywhere showing it in the area we will be in.
Thanks

[armaghniac]

It would less trouble to just give the tenner to GAAGo than fiddle with vpns.

[Main Street]

Anyone know of a VPN service that works now with the Rte Player when abroad - without going down the proxy route of having to configure routers etc.?
Will be in France for the AI football final and wondering if I have an alternative to GAA Go?
Trying to avoid having to travel somewhere to watch it - pretty sure there won't be anywhere showing it in the area we will be in.
Thanks

vpnarea is easy enough, https://vpnarea.com/front/
After you have subscribed, you download an application from their website, punch in your username and password, choose RTE from the available list of servers and connect.
Their Irish  server allows just enough bandwidth to watch in some quality, about 500KBs to 3MBs, thats about 4mbps to 24mbps.
 
You have a 3 day window in which you can cancel the sub. Afaia they honour that guarantee.