Canadian TV in Florida

On the internet streaming?

ian.c wrote:
After another winter without cdn hockey on tv I'd really like to find a solution! I thought I had it with Shaw Direct but now I gather it's not going to be possible to get satellite coverage in the near future.
Perhaps someone can set me straight on this?

Many thanks!
Go Leafs G ............ oh

Ian

If you've got Shaw Direct, you've got access to Free Range TV through them. The trick is they won't let it stream cross border, so you need a way to get around the initial IP address check.
You can try Free Range TV at home, if you've got (unlimited) internet at home. Just use your Shaw Direct account and you can sign in and access it. If you don't have unlimited bandwidth, be careful, because streaming will eat it up pretty fast.
Try it.
Once you figure out how to access it, you can either use some sort of US based IP address spoofer, to make it look like you're somewhere in Canada, or you can pay some third party for VPN access and tunnel back to Canada via that.
Unless others have a better way (free?) to spoof IP addresses in all the common web browsers? Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.?
Or, know of a very low cost (free with large bandwidth allowances) VPN service supplier?
As I understand it.

Thank you both! At this point, al I have is Bell Fibre which is also expensive. My neighbour in Florida had Shaw so I thought I'd look at that. I can stream but I only have a 10gb/month account, and a couple of hockey games would gobble that up quickly!
Mike, I like your idea about address spoofing and I think I know someone who can set that up for me. Many thanks!

ian.c wrote:
Thank you both! At this point, al I have is Bell Fibre which is also expensive. My neighbour in Florida had Shaw so I thought I'd look at that. I can stream but I only have a 10gb/month account, and a couple of hockey games would gobble that up quickly!
Mike, I like your idea about address spoofing and I think I know someone who can set that up for me. Many thanks!

I'm not familiar with Bell Fib(r)e? Is that their internet streaming TV offering? If so, the setup is probably similar to Shaw's Free Range, and likely it's got the same restrictions for border crossing.
You should be able to access it from anywhere on the planet as long as the IP address looks "Canadian".
If you're staying in a park in FL, and they include the wifi, or even cable internet, you won't be using your own home bandwidth. Maybe that was confusing you. I just suggested you try to get the internet streaming at home, to test whether you can get it to work. I'm on Shaw Direct and I get Free Range (for free) anywhere I can get logged into my Shaw Direct customer account. I've used it at home (briefly) on my phone and on my laptop, so I know it works for me.
When you get to FL and get online, you can probably stream live TV on some fairly slow connection speeds. I have the lowest speed at home, and I can get most of the live channels fairly well. No jitter or pixellating.
Either way, good luck with it.

Finding a neighbor that can get the games and offering to buy the beer might be easier =and= cheaper, in the long run. :B

Lyle

laknox wrote:
Finding a neighbor that can get the games and offering to buy the beer might be easier =and= cheaper, in the long run. :B

Lyle

Probably right. :C

Here we go a sendin’ all, and I mean all, our stuff north of the border and gettin’ no hickey in return.

I thought legal CTV app in Kodi bypassed geo-restrictions, i.e. you could watch it anywhere?

I'm not familiar with Kodi, so not sure about that. If Kodi isn't restricted across borders then it's possible. I was under the impression that copyright laws protect live TV from being transmitted without permission. It's possible that pre-recorded, non-copyrighted stuff can be viewed on 3rd party streaming apps across borders, but again, I'm not familiar with any of them.

I was suggesting a way to access (almost) live TV, like sports events (hockey games), and news channels, which are available (with a short delay, under a minute, probably for censoring language, content, etc.) from streaming websites like Shaw Free Range TV.

My bad, sorry - it was CBC, not CTV.

Kodi is a media center, free for download. There is CBC add-on in official Kodi repository, they are usually strict about staying legal. Works like a charm, streaming live playoffs now. Don't get too excited, this is merely CBC public broadcast streaming on the web, not a premium for-pay sports channel.

Didn't try it in the US. VPN should help with geo-restrictions if it comes to this, but I have yet to find a free VPN that works well.