Watch Olympics for free online?

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Can we do this anywhere from Switzerland? thanks

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Download Zattoo and you can watch loads of European channels including BBC and ITV for free. It works on both PC and Mac.

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...and iPhone, iPad, iPod, Windows phone 7, Android (beta) and Linux.

Bloody marvellous program.

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And also Filmon

http://www.filmon.com/#BBC-One

Which works alittle quicker than Zattoo There's also an app on the I-phone, not sure about other phones.

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Do French broadcasters not show the Olympics then?

SF will have loads of coverage I expect (although I will have to steel myself for how the presenters pronounce Lon-don), if the Beijing Olympics where anything to judge by.

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Just a FYI, Zattoo now have a separate sports only site:

http://360.sport.ch/zattoo/guide/pro...012-07-27?3426

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Eurosport will show this live

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Also...

Is there any way to make the Eurosport commentator shut up?

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press the mute button

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Good idea but i would like to keep the music. I just want the guy to shut up.

Good news though. ZDF will also show it and i dont mind listening to german. I think its a sexy language

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Great thanks! Both Zattoo and Filmon work well.

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Is anyone actually happy with these options? Is there nowhere that you can pick and choose which events you'd like to watch?

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BBC website, but you need some way of convincing the site you are in the UK

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A VPN - there are several subscription, and at least one free - Expat Shield - which I use (with a browser ad-blocker).

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The BBC coverage is comprehensive, 24 channels of live feeds so you should be able to find anything you like. I already had a UK VPN so no problems there.

Women's beach volleyball is on at the moment!

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Can anyone give instructions to the layman how to create a VPN so the BBC website will think I am an Englishmen?

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Oh, I forgot to mention that I am using mac so as far as I understand Expat Shield is out of the window

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Hi, following up on the same question. How do you watch the bbc programs if you are in switzerland(and without a uk vpn)?

Is there any website where you could choose the sport you want to watch, and watch it live online?

thanks

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(We have an all-Mac household, so Expat Shield doesn't work for us)

1. IF you go the SF's website and navigate around you can eventually get to one of their online streams like Teleboy: http://www.teleboy.ch/tv/player/player.php

BBC1 is included in the package, and you can view it as long as you are in Switzerland. To do better than that you need a VPN.

2. Over the weekend I subscribed to Hide My Ass. ( http://www.hidemyass.com ). This lets you log into any of 3000 or so VPNs around the world, and make your computer seem like it's in any country you like. The software is Windows, Mac and Linux, or there are ways to do it without downloading. We've been watching the Olympics on the BBC's website all weekend and it works like a charm. It is does require a subscription, though.

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You usually only need to convince the BBC (or whichever channel) you're in the UK whilst you open the page containing the media content.

iPlayer has changed recently in that there's a few seconds of an intro before it reconnects to show the main program. Once the main program starts you can disconnect from your VPN (especially if you're using a free one with bad bandwidth) and watch directly.

For the live content on BBC Sport it's more tricky. I've found I need to switch the proxy (from ON through the VPN or whatever to OFF/direct) whilst it's showing the "loading" spiral logo. Too early and you get a "can't be viewed in your location" error. Too late and "there is a problem with this video feed". I've got it sussed

I have a domain hosted in the UK, and that provides telnet access to my account. Firefox (with the free putty telnet client) can route web traffic via this, which is based in the UK. However, I have such a cheap package they don't provide the bandwidth for watching hours of live TV, as I did over the weekend, hence my "switch it of at the right time" trick.

This also works with the free Tor/Viledia "UK exit point" method - google for that. It's free but a bit more complex.