So Top Gear is now on season 20, but at some point since season 19 the Hola unblocker that made the BBC iPlayer work outside the UK isn't working now. Any advice on getting hola to work again or option to watch it now now without torrents?
So Top Gear is now on season 20, but at some point since season 19 the Hola unblocker that made the BBC iPlayer work outside the UK isn't working now. Any advice on getting hola to work again or option to watch it now now without torrents?
And after going to the hola site, it showed me how to change my country setting, now it works.
The taxi racing in episode 2 of season 20 is classic.
Is this better than the site where the roads are aflame? 
To the people with cable/satellite, and not surviving on Netflix Instant: berkeley you.
Details on this Hola thing?
Yes details? I'm tired of having a standalone pc dedicated to downloading torrents from finalgear.com to get the newest episodes. I'm just so anal that I disconnect everything from the network and hook up a different router with different firewall rules just to download episodes and not have to worry about compromising anything else that runs off my network.
A quick google search on 'hola bbc' turned up this article on what it is and how it works. http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/unlock-hulu-and-bbc-iplayer-in-a-click-with-hola-20130124-2d8zu.html
So the cliffnotes are that Hola is another P2P software package that allows you to geo-dodge and use old school web accel technology to watch your favorite tv shows from across the pond in less than SD quality lol.
stuart in mn wrote: A quick google search on 'hola bbc' turned up this article on what it is and how it works. http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/unlock-hulu-and-bbc-iplayer-in-a-click-with-hola-20130124-2d8zu.html
Ohhhh, you are my new bestest friend. I'll be checking this out later. Waiting on Netflix is tough.
DirtyBird222 wrote: So the cliffnotes are that Hola is another P2P software package that allows you to geo-dodge and use old school web accel technology to watch your favorite tv shows from across the pond in less than SD quality lol.
Why do that when finalgear always has clean torrents ready to go within an hour?
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Why do that when finalgear always has clean torrents ready to go within an hour?
This.
Kenny_McCormic wrote:DirtyBird222 wrote: So the cliffnotes are that Hola is another P2P software package that allows you to geo-dodge and use old school web accel technology to watch your favorite tv shows from across the pond in less than SD quality lol.Why do that when finalgear always has clean torrents ready to go within an hour?
The problem isn't with the torrents themselves it's with the applications to download torrents. If you run this little program called peer blocker while you have up a torrent application you'd be amazed at how many IP addresses are attempting to make a connection to your machine even while not downloading a file. The same probably happens with hola. It's what happens under the surface with P2P programs that always eats away at your pc.This is why I use an old PC to do so, then scan the files for malicious content and plug a thumbdrive into my tv to watch directly off of that. It's just a process.
people are still having a tough time finding non malicious torrent software?
i thought uTorrent was ubiquitous...
madmallard wrote: people are still having a tough time finding non malicious torrent software? i thought uTorrent was ubiquitous...
utorrent has gone adware recently. I've dumped it for an oldversion.com version. 
DirtyBird222 wrote:Kenny_McCormic wrote:The problem isn't with the torrents themselves it's with the applications to download torrents. If you run this little program called peer blocker while you have up a torrent application you'd be amazed at how many IP addresses are attempting to make a connection to your machine even while not downloading a file. The same probably happens with hola. It's what happens under the surface with P2P programs that always eats away at your pc.This is why I use an old PC to do so, then scan the files for malicious content and plug a thumbdrive into my tv to watch directly off of that. It's just a process.DirtyBird222 wrote: So the cliffnotes are that Hola is another P2P software package that allows you to geo-dodge and use old school web accel technology to watch your favorite tv shows from across the pond in less than SD quality lol.Why do that when finalgear always has clean torrents ready to go within an hour?
Is it possible that this is actually part of the P2P process? Different computers checking to see what files you're seeding.
I'd be more concerned about your ISP monitoring the files you download and providing that information to the RIAA so that you could be added to their BS lawsuits.
Yeah too much for my lazy ass, there are many STREETS that are on FIRE on the .NET that make it so much easier.
In reply to DoctorBlade:
why, can't you get the disabling to work?
turboswede wrote: I'd be more concerned about your ISP monitoring the files you download and providing that information to the RIAA so that you could be added to their BS lawsuits.
Eh, I use the SoF for TG. Only thing I use uTorrent for is F1. Although that may change next year..if US prototype racing ends up closer to GA's "spec series" than ALMS, I'll probably start paying more attention to LMS/WEC. Either way, I figure I'm OK..I live in the US, where there's probably nobody at my ISP who knows WTF any of it is in the first place.
Sorry, just couldn't resist! 
JtspellS wrote: Yeah too much for my lazy ass, there are many STREETS that are on FIRE on the .NET that make it so much easier.
This. Don't tell your friends, just invite them over to watch ;)
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