What do you use to watch nba games?

J-Roc · Post #41 » by **J-Roc** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:58 pm

Strange Clouds wrote:
pbj wrote:League Pass + VPN to circumvent black-outs

What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Did you by chance get your internet through Comcast?

Strange Clouds · Post #42 » by **Strange Clouds** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:00 pm

J-Roc wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
pbj wrote:League Pass + VPN to circumvent black-outs

What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Did you by chance get your internet through Comcast?

Nope. Verizon

IMAN5 · Post #43 » by **IMAN5** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:01 pm

im with rogers and they give me most of what I need.

J-Roc · Post #44 » by **J-Roc** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:03 pm

Strange Clouds wrote:
J-Roc wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Did you by chance get your internet through Comcast?

Nope. Verizon

The wireless company? Or do they have like DSL internet? Anyway, blackouts are the way it is here. Our version of the FTC is owned by the teams.

pkiskool · Post #45 » by **pkiskool** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:07 pm

Strange Clouds wrote:
pbj wrote:League Pass + VPN to circumvent black-outs

What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Yes.
Pay for NBA League Pass on NBA.com first.
VPN / proxy server to a different country (if you live in Philly, set your proxy to anywhere but US).
Enjoy the full HD game.

You would need to google around to find out how to do the VPN / Proxy bit though.
I don't think it is allowed to be posted here.

Strange Clouds · Post #46 » by **Strange Clouds** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:08 pm

J-Roc wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
J-Roc wrote:
Did you by chance get your internet through Comcast?

Nope. Verizon

The wireless company? Or do they have like DSL internet? Anyway, blackouts are the way it is here. Our version of the FTC is owned by the teams.

Verion high speed Internet...Fios

pkiskool · Post #47 » by **pkiskool** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:08 pm

IMAN5 wrote:im with rogers and they give me most of what I need.

Yeah, and you are also one of the suckers who cough up $80 a month to help Robbers build Ted Rogers statue...
C'mon, do you really watch all those stupid game shows and soap operas? smh

Strange Clouds · Post #48 » by **Strange Clouds** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:10 pm

pkiskool wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
pbj wrote:League Pass + VPN to circumvent black-outs

What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Yes.
Pay for NBA League Pass on NBA.com first.
VPN / proxy server to a different country (if you live in Philly, set your proxy to anywhere but US).
Enjoy the full HD game.

You would need to google around to find out how to do the VPN / Proxy bit though.
I don't think it is allowed to be posted here.

Man I gotta get on that. Besides a Eagles and Sixers I have no interest in Cable. Especially when I could download some of my favorite shows.

J-Roc · Post #49 » by **J-Roc** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:14 pm

Strange Clouds wrote:
J-Roc wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Did you by chance get your internet through Comcast?

Nope. Verizon

OMG, just realized I misread your question. I thought you were telling you could can watch Sixer games without cable and questioning why we couldn't. :oops:

IMAN5 · Post #50 » by **IMAN5** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:26 pm

pkiskool wrote:
IMAN5 wrote:im with rogers and they give me most of what I need.

Yeah, and you are also one of the suckers who cough up $80 a month to help Robbers build Ted Rogers statue...
C'mon, do you really watch all those stupid game shows and soap operas? smh

I live with my parents who pay the cable bill so yeah................

Post #51 » by **pbj** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:27 pm

Strange Clouds wrote:
pkiskool wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
What's VPN? I could watch Sixers games while living in Philadelphia without having to pay for cable?

Yes.
Pay for NBA League Pass on NBA.com first.
VPN / proxy server to a different country (if you live in Philly, set your proxy to anywhere but US).
Enjoy the full HD game.

You would need to google around to find out how to do the VPN / Proxy bit though.
I don't think it is allowed to be posted here.

Man I gotta get on that. Besides a Eagles and Sixers I have no interest in Cable. Especially when I could download some of my favorite shows.

Exactly. The only way I can get all the Raptors games here is to pay something like 60$ more a month on my TV bill. Over the course of a 8 month season, that's almost $500.

Instead, I pay $100 for LP and like another $100 buck for the VPN for a year, and I get all the Raptors games in full HD + all other games played in the league all season in full HD + crazy replay functionality.

Easiest decision of my life..

EDIT: OH PLUS you don't have to listen to Leo most nights, they seem to usually use the other team's feed.

th1 · Post #52 » by **th1** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:28 pm

used to watch using those poor quality laggy streams. Got really tired of that bs and bought my self League Pass. Well spent money

Superchunk · Post #53 » by **Superchunk** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:35 pm

I use streams mostly even though I have league pass because of the blackouts. So obviously I need to get myself going on a VPN.

I use unblockus for american netflix - can anyone recommend a good vpn that will do the same thing? I have very slow internet (1 meg) so I need to make sure it doesn't slow me down any further (seems unlikey that anyone would slow me down below 1 meg though).

pkiskool · Post #54 » by **pkiskool** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:48 pm

pbj wrote:
Strange Clouds wrote:
pkiskool wrote:Yes.
Pay for NBA League Pass on NBA.com first.
VPN / proxy server to a different country (if you live in Philly, set your proxy to anywhere but US).
Enjoy the full HD game.

You would need to google around to find out how to do the VPN / Proxy bit though.
I don't think it is allowed to be posted here.

Man I gotta get on that. Besides a Eagles and Sixers I have no interest in Cable. Especially when I could download some of my favorite shows.

Exactly. The only way I can get all the Raptors games here is to pay something like 60$ more a month on my TV bill. Over the course of a 8 month season, that's almost $500.

Instead, I pay $100 for LP and like another $100 buck for the VPN for a year, and I get all the Raptors games in full HD + all other games played in the league all season in full HD + crazy replay functionality.

Easiest decision of my life..

EDIT: OH PLUS you don't have to listen to Leo most nights, they seem to usually use the other team's feed.

Dude.
If you want to save another $100 (get rid of paid VPN), PM me.

RonaldArtest · Post #55 » by **RonaldArtest** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:05 pm

On the New VR.

carlosrogers34 · Post #56 » by **carlosrogers34** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:29 pm

pkiskool wrote:
raptormage wrote:League Pass + Unotelly worked fine during the season. The benefit of using Unotelly is that it bypasses blackouts while still using your connection so you don't have to worry about slow VPNs. That worked until the 2nd round of the playoffs when LP changed something with their authentication. Then I had to use a method similar to pbj's above. Hopefully Unotelly will have worked out a fix in time for next season.

If you're going to buy League Pass, use a Romanian or Spanish VPN to buy the International League Pass + ASW + Playoffs package for much less than what it would cost in North America. I think it was $100 when I bought it.

$100 in Canada as well, no need to buy things on sketchy proxy server... I would not enter my card info on a proxy server... yikes.

I mentioned using VPN and not a proxy server because it's secure. And $100 in Canada without ASW and playoffs. I bought the Canadian version first and verified not even getting the replays of playoff games with LP tech support. The global package price including ASW and playoffs varies by region. The other benefit of using something like PIA VPN ($40/year) is that you can use openVPN on your phone/tablet to watch every league pass game without hassle.

TANKNATION · Post #57 » by **TANKNATION** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:08 am

Eyes.

yodude · Post #58 » by **yodude** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:17 am

VLC streams from reddit (when they are available).
For super HD, you would need unlimited bandwidth.

DarkKnight · Post #59 » by **DarkKnight** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:33 am

Eyeballs, mostly.

kahula_joe · Post #60 » by **kahula_joe** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:39 pm

pbj wrote:
kahula_joe wrote:
pbj wrote:League Pass + VPN to circumvent black-outs

Hey man, what VPN worked the best for you? I tried using HideMyAss last year (the trial version). However whenever I would connect to a European country (to make sure the blackout doesn't apply), the connections were extremely slow.

I used HMA as well and you're right it's too slow.. but the trick my friend is that the blackout validation only happens when you log-in.
So what you do is..
1. Close browser (Ctrl+alt+delete and kill the process too)
2. Open HMA! and connect to random country
3. Log-in to LP
4. If you see the blackout icon is gone, disconnect HMA and enjoy the game using your own connect

There's something called OpenVPN that I'm gonna try next season which is free. I don't really know anything about it but I've been told I could use it rather than paying for HMA but I dunno

Thanks for the info. I will try that out this year. By the way, is it better to purchase the Canadian version of the league pass or do you recommend, I vpn to some country and purchase it from there?