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Austrian VPS, that is not blocked by ORF
Hi,
This is my first real post here, I hope I will do everything right.
I’m looking for a small VPS, that allows me to watch ORF.at without the geo-restriciton.
That means, I want to install my own VPN.
I am looking for a VPS
somewhere in Austria (the one with the Sachertorte and not with the kangaroos)
1x vCPU
1GB RAM
20GB HDD
1TB traffic
KVM (would be nice, so I can install by own OS)
Budget: ~10$ / month
Since I’m using this only for myself, 1 TB is actually overkill.
I tried:
netcup (blocked everywhere)
Alwyzon (blocked by ORF, works for other sites)
Edis (blocked everywhere)
Some, I forgot…
Thanks!
Comments
Have you tried @hosthatch they have AT, Vienna VPS.
Looking glass: http://lg.vie.hosthatch.com/
Have you tried oracle free? With mine i can unlock services in swiss.. I tried to watch live on orf.at with surfshark vpn and it was working fine. KeepSolid and Ivacy failed.
Hello @wedge1001
What do you think about this: https://vie-lg.hosteroid.uk/ ?
We have both Zayo and nLayer ISPs and we are in Vienna
I just tested it via HH .at vps vpn.
I can open orf.at webpage (most likely everyone can), but can't watch videos.
Hmmm. I don't know about it.
geo-restriction is so stupid practice...
It has nothing to do with stupid practise most of the time but with purchased broadcasting rights.
As example ORF (Austrian national public broadcaster) most likely don't have rights to broadcast Formula 1 outside of Austria.
Why they bother to block Austria's ip then? Technically it is in Austria.
Have you looked into residential proxies instead? They bounce you off some local ISP or 4G provider.
maybe
https://www.easyname.com/en/server/vps (nessus network)
or http://www.ipax.at
Basically, it's Austrian residential IPs that they want to allow
They want to exclude Austrian datacenter IPs
Methinks geo-restriction should never be placed on IP addresses.
Instead, viewers must download the mobile / TV app, which acquires GPS coordinates.
This ensures domestic content stays domestic, no impact from IP changing hands.
Random rant about IP geo:
The Betfair API works best om UK & Ireland IPs
Their API block most other countries
I had to order like 15-20 IPs on OVH with UK as country until their geo ip provider finally thought my IP was UK and not France or Germany
So I think it’s safe to say that IP geo databases are outdated as fuck and there must be a huge amount of false positives
One large phone carrier in Sweden recetly had a problem; one of their ranges was blocked from Swedish national TV for being from outside of Sweden..
Either it’s @yoursunny ’s idea with GPS coordinates (even if this can be faked as well of course) or it’s something else but basing location off of IPs is clearly not working
You know that its really easy to fake GPS coordinates?
And quite a difficult task for most TV's
Injecting a fake GPS coordinates on Android requires enabling the developer mode and connecting adb.
The app can detect that adb connection exists and refuse to start three playback.
I'm pretty sure that you don't need adb though. Simply enabling dev mode should work (and then using some random app to do the spoofing)
to be fair ISP IP's rarely change hands
@William
i don't find the possibility in oracle-cloud to deploy something in austria.
there is swiss and i found germany, but no austria.
will try.
edit seems like no VPS systems are available
I tried, but did not find a service that somehow looked dependable
Thanks for your input.
I will also try easyname and ipax
iproyal[.]com has Austrian residential proxies for $4/month. That should be some local ISP.
I know you are looking for VPS but for what its worth, controld dns unblocks it.
Oh, you don't have to tell me about that. Big customer bought a ddos solution and decided to also implement geo-blocking for remote workers. We did the setup exactly according to their specifications. If from Sweden, pass trough. From Europe, require 2FA. Everything else just block.
The following day, somewhere around 3000 employees could not login via vpn. The entire organisation bought every sim from a phone carrier that used ip-ranges with a geolocation that pointed to a small Asian country.
I'm guessing we are talking about the same provider here.
I take, what i can get to get it working.
Did you check this yourself? i do have my own DNS-Cluster, so a simple change in the upstream should not be a problem here.
Yes, I confirmed it before posting here, unfortunately it won't screenshot. Just shows a black screen.
I singed up for the trial.
with mobile data it looks like i get like 5seconds of video and then it stops.
Sometimes audio keeps playing.
Will try it at home with a "normal" connection.
Thank you.
You're welcome, hope it works out for you. Left it playing for around 20min here and it was fine. Didn't try on mobile.