Information overload

[Workingman]

Jan, re TV, have a look at these:

https://www.portugalist.com/british-tv-portugal/

https://teeveeing.com/how-it-works/

Might not be ideal, but you could get some channels.

[Workingman]

Or what about https://livingabroad.tv/#

You need broadband, but if you have a smart TV/... lappy to TV it works.

Looks good.

Most of these have prices but they are way less than the UK TV licence.

[Suff]

These are broadcast only and good if you only want that, better if you have an android TV but Chrome cast is cheap and plugs in like a FireTV and that works too. .

If you want any of the apps for catchup etc, though, you need a VPN. Ditto for films.

Jan, does Steve also do the Internet stuff?

If so I can give you info on the VPN I use, how to set it up and how to use a VPN enabled router to setup all your devices to simply work for what you need. You can give that to Steve and he can advise you. Then you can use a FireTV and get all the UK TV apps.

I have been doing this for nearly 20 years now and it took a long time to get a solution which really works.

If you look at the first link WM sent you it explains why commercial VPN wind up being detected and blocked. For $4 a month I found a company who will give you a VPN which is never detected. I have tried ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark and a host of others. Same result every time. One or two months and blocked.

[JanB]

There are actually three Steve's locally, very confusing

One thinks he knows everything and often gets stuff wrong but the other two are brilliant and all things techy.

Sadly, neither were at the bar yesterday, but we're not in any rush. Summer is the time we rarely watch tv, it's the winter, when it'scold and wet and we can't get outside that we need something to watch.

I'll have a chat with both and get back to you.

And thank you both xx

[Suff]

NP Jan, the offer is open. I was travelling home this weekend. But I wound up waiting 2 hours at the storage Saturday night because the nice new shiny NFC lock would not unlock because their app couldn't talk to their server.

When the guy arrived at 11pm I asked for a manual lock...

Home now, I'll look out the memory and put it somewhere safe.

[Suff]

Just an info update here from my side.

After the last lot of outages in France which left me unable to work I bit the bullet and bought a second Starlink. This time using a different email address and my home address in France as the location.

Kit arrived in less than 10 days. I put a pole up on the wall and using the pole adapter I bought with the starlkink put it up.

I now have two internet feeds into the house. 250mb/s peak speed down and around 20mb/s up. Pretty solid connection. Kit cost €413 and the monthly subscription is €40.

Just in case you are thinking of doing that.

[JanB]

I need to find out when our MEO contract runs out, they have a two year rolling contract and I have a horrible feeling ours doesn't run out until next year.

[saundra]

Jan I wouldn't have a clue either I just like an
On\ of switch

[Suff]

Actually Starlink is really easy. If you don't need a pole you just stick the cable in the slot clip it into the stand, plug the cables into the router and power it up. Run up the app on the phone and it will walk you through configuring it.

No adjusting to satellite signals just plug, point at sky, set up wifi.

https://youtu.be/AmgwkKgZaGk?t=97