VPN's

seth plum

I have a Nord VPN.
They keep contacting me with soon to run out offers.
The trouble is I don’t have a clue what those offers are or mean, they might just as well be speaking to me in Vogon.
Nord for me are in a long line of things I have, but also join a very long line of things that will eventually ask me ‘forgotten your login?’, ‘forgotten your password?’, ‘what is your membership number?’ and so on.
These situations usually lead to you getting an electronic mail, which means closing what you’re doing, opening the mail for a code word or something, then re opening the site and having to start all over again.

The Red Robin

Norton’s is pretty good 

Covered End

seth plum said:

I have a Nord VPN.
They keep contacting me with soon to run out offers.
The trouble is I don’t have a clue what those offers are or mean, they might just as well be speaking to me in Vogon.
Nord for me are in a long line of things I have, but also join a very long line of things that will eventually ask me ‘forgotten your login?’, ‘forgotten your password?’, ‘what is your membership number?’ and so on.
These situations usually lead to you getting an electronic mail, which means closing what you’re doing, opening the mail for a code word or something, then re opening the site and having to start all over again.

You don’t have to close everything off.
Maybe make a note of a few IT issues you have & someone close can show you how to do it.

seth plum

Covered End said:

seth plum said:

I have a Nord VPN.
They keep contacting me with soon to run out offers.
The trouble is I don’t have a clue what those offers are or mean, they might just as well be speaking to me in Vogon.
Nord for me are in a long line of things I have, but also join a very long line of things that will eventually ask me ‘forgotten your login?’, ‘forgotten your password?’, ‘what is your membership number?’ and so on.
These situations usually lead to you getting an electronic mail, which means closing what you’re doing, opening the mail for a code word or something, then re opening the site and having to start all over again.

You don’t have to close everything off.
Maybe make a note of a few IT issues you have & someone close can show you how to do it.

Once something is up and running I forget about how it happened and simply use it until it goes wrong.
If I was shown something I have no motivation to remember the convoluted processes, I am satisfied if things simply work.

CAFCTrev

DRAddick said:

cafcnick1992 said:

I use express VPN but i am finding that, because it's the most popular VPN out there, that many websites know the IP addresses it uses.

This. More and more websites are catching on to VPN's and can now recognise them and block them. I use Nord which works fine for things I need it to most of the time. Don't have an issue signing up to watch Charlton games. 

I use a VPN as well for that extra layer of safety especially when you're on the internet "sailing the high seas" *wink, wink*. As others have mentioned it can be a pain with some websites refusing to work with it active, oddly I always have issues with ticketing websites. 

stockportugaladdick

Cloudworm said:

Really depends what you want to use them for. Neither Nord or Express can access BBC or other UK mainstays while abroad. I have given up on both of them and just don't even bother trying anymore.

I live in Portugal and watch BBC, ITV etc without any issues using Nord. I even sign in to my brother-in-laws sky account for the football with no problems.

redman

Well I've bitten the bullet and signed up for Nord VPN, via Charlton. Seems to be working but the real test will come Saturday at 3pm. 

redman

Just on this, when I tried overseas I used USA. Is that as good as anywhere? 

WishIdStayedinthePub

Another vote for NordVPN, have used them for years.  Went through a dodgy patch 3-4 years back (connectivity, speed, not hiding your true location) but have been reliable ever since.

I have two different accounts, but only one of them live at any point, so that I always have a good offer at renewal time.  

Billericaydickie

I also use Nord no real problems.

Although I couldn’t buy a ticket for Euro millions this morning until I landed back in the UK.

However if I abroad I can always log in and watch the 3.00pm games.

altrinchamaddick

I have just bought Nord VPN.
So, a few questions for experienced users.
Do I now select a different country, eg USA, then go to the Charlton website and pay for the game, the same way you would do for a game last season that you could watch legally?

robroy

altrinchamaddick said:

I have just bought Nord VPN.
So, a few questions for experienced users.
Do I now select a different country, eg USA, then go to the Charlton website and pay for the game, the same way you would do for a game last season that you could watch legally?

Correct mate. 

Worth deleting history, cache etc before changing location and loading up the site. 

Then happy days. 

MuttleyCAFC

I have never had issues paying and watching Charlton TV whereas ITV and BBC can be a bit more fussy. I have even had the VPN with a UK address by accident and the coverage didn't work of course but I went into another country and it worked without me having to exit the website.

BassAddick

I’m asking for a friend (let’s call him Bill) who thinks he may have got the wrong end of the stick regarding the way Nord Vpn works. He used to have 2 different VPN apps on a fire stick, which allowed him to watch TV series that you would otherwise have to pay for FOC. Once in the app and connected to a VPN, you remained in the app but got an electronic program guide from which you could choose live TV, or lists of series from which to pick one.

Having downloaded Nord, it appears that you don’t get to choose within Nord what to watch, but connect to a VPN, back out of the app (the VPN remains on in the background) then choose a streaming service.

All well and good if you know what you want to watch, and in what streaming service to find it, but no way of browsing an EPG. Bill says Nord isn’t a way to watch free content, is he right?

fenaddick

BassAddick said:

I’m asking for a friend (let’s call him Bill) who thinks he may have got the wrong end of the stick regarding the way Nord Vpn works. He used to have 2 different VPN apps on a fire stick, which allowed him to watch TV series that you would otherwise have to pay for FOC. Once in the app and connected to a VPN, you remained in the app but got an electronic program guide from which you could choose live TV, or lists of series from which to pick one.

Having downloaded Nord, it appears that you don’t get to choose within Nord what to watch, but connect to a VPN, back out of the app (the VPN remains on in the background) then choose a streaming service.

All well and good if you know what you want to watch, and in what streaming service to find it, but no way of browsing an EPG. Bill says Nord isn’t a way to watch free content, is he right?

Bill is correct. Nord effectively lets Bill browse the internet from any country he likes. If a show he likes is on Netflix in Australia Bill can set his VPN to Australia and use his Netflix account to watch in Australia. Or if he wanted to watch Charlton on a Saturday he could set his VPN to Luxembourg and pay his £10 to Charlton to watch it. 

killerandflash

PragueAddick said:

Glovepup said:

I use Surfshark: Online security suite | Official website

And me. They are consistently able to crack BBC iPlayer, the toughest one to crack. 

I use Surfshark too. I've just come back from South Korea, and was able to watch BBC iPlayer over there on my Android tablet with no problems. Channel 4 was more of a faff, but changing the time zone of my tablet back to UK time did the trick. I didn't need to clear my internet history at all.

I've never needed to clear my history on my android tablet to watch Charlton TV in the UK either, though did sometimes have to do so on my older iPad.

Danepak

Here’s a little hack if you have a VPN and want to avoid the ads on the free version of YouTube:
Set your country as Albania in your VPN.