This is how I watch the olympics online

[Lnspilot]

I have a solution for those of us who don't own a computer but still want to watch the olympics.

After a quick google search, I found this link: http://www.howtogeek.com/182666/how-to-watch-the-olympics-online-without-a-cable-subscription/

"That said: Proxmate, a premium proxy that only costs $2 a month (and offers a free 14 day trial) is pretty speedy and has handy extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. More importantly (and quite relevant to our goal as Olympic event watchers), Proxmate has tweaked their entire design and user experience specifically to be optimized for watching streaming sources from around the globe. You can check out their “Channels” listing to see all the global news services and TV channels you can easily tune into."

I installed the Proximate extension for Chrome (with the trial), went to bbc.co.uk/sport, and am now watching the olympics.

Enjoy

[Papa Mustache]

Yep - I'm doing the same thing with Tunnelbear. Old WinVista computer running free Mint Linux 17.3 KDE feeding the video to the TV.

We love many of the BBC shows. Costs us about $3 a month I think. Wish I could juist subscribe to the UK version of BBC for $5 a month or so and have a legit channel on our Roku.

BBC America is okay but not the same.

Enjoying the BBC Olympics coverage more than the NBC coverage who often breaks away so we can watch/listen to the hosts or watch endless commercials. Its like watching a little Olympics with our NBC commercials. ;)

[Papa Mustache]

FWIW I tried SlingTV on Roku and it wasn't very good. It functioned wonderfully but it did not include NBC. It did include many of NBC's secondary and tertiary channels that were showing Olympics but not the most popular events. I have an aspiring gymnast in the house and we wanted to see those competitions. No dice with SlingTV without NBC.

It looked like we could have gotten up at 5Am one morning to see a competition.

Also no way to watch events already passed On SlingTV.

We looked around at the other typical cableTV channels and we must be weird b/c none of it was appealing if we had to watch it live and wade through the commercials. I'll just wait until it gets to Hulu without commercials.

You can sign up and turn it off in a week and owe nothing. I turned our's off and it told me that it would still work for two weeks at not cost.

[Northwestie]

Yep - I'm doing the same thing with Tunnelbear. Old WinVista computer running free Mint Linux 17.3 KDE feeding the video to the TV.

We love many of the BBC shows. Costs us about $3 a month I think. Wish I could juist subscribe to the UK version of BBC for $5 a month or so and have a legit channel on our Roku.

BBC America is okay but not the same.

Enjoying the BBC Olympics coverage more than the NBC coverage who often breaks away so we can watch/listen to the hosts or watch endless commercials. Its like watching a little Olympics with our NBC commercials. ;)

Same with me - Tunnel Bear - tune into BBC and watched the Brazil soccer match and China-Argentina basketball game w/o a commercial.  Imagine that.  ABC is just full of BS profiles and if an American is not involved it doesn't show up.  It's really pathetic.

They broadcast live events and have tape of others.  Pretty cool.

I tried plugging into the CBC but you have to download an app from the Apple App store and it is not available from the US store.  Even using Tunnel Bear they were detecting I wasn't in Canada - likely thru my original registration in iTunes.  So I just vaulted over to the UK and it's been great.

[Debts_of_Despair]

Good reminder about VPN'ing into CBC!  I used TunnelBear extensively for the last winter olympics.  Well worth the $8 for unlimited streaming.  Ironic that I wouldn't be able to watch half of this stuff if I was still paying $50+ a month for cable.

[Debts_of_Despair]

I tried plugging into the CBC but you have to download an app from the Apple App store and it is not available from the US store.  Even using Tunnel Bear they were detecting I wasn't in Canada - likely thru my original registration in iTunes.  So I just vaulted over to the UK and it's been great.

You can watch CBC on a web browser if you are on a regular computer.  No apps needed.

[Northwestie]

I tried plugging into the CBC but you have to download an app from the Apple App store and it is not available from the US store.  Even using Tunnel Bear they were detecting I wasn't in Canada - likely thru my original registration in iTunes.  So I just vaulted over to the UK and it's been great.

You can watch CBC on a web browser if you are on a regular computer.  No apps needed.

I tried that and you get a dialog box sending you to the app store to download the CBC app - I was on an Ipad so maybe I need to try from the desktop?

[Debts_of_Despair]

I tried plugging into the CBC but you have to download an app from the Apple App store and it is not available from the US store.  Even using Tunnel Bear they were detecting I wasn't in Canada - likely thru my original registration in iTunes.  So I just vaulted over to the UK and it's been great.

You can watch CBC on a web browser if you are on a regular computer.  No apps needed.

I tried that and you get a dialog box sending you to the app store to download the CBC app - I was on an Ipad so maybe I need to try from the desktop?

Yeah, I would try that if interested.  I am streaming CBC right now on iMac with TunnelBear and Firefox from US location.

[Northwestie]

I tried plugging into the CBC but you have to download an app from the Apple App store and it is not available from the US store.  Even using Tunnel Bear they were detecting I wasn't in Canada - likely thru my original registration in iTunes.  So I just vaulted over to the UK and it's been great.

You can watch CBC on a web browser if you are on a regular computer.  No apps needed.

I tried that and you get a dialog box sending you to the app store to download the CBC app - I was on an Ipad so maybe I need to try from the desktop?

Yeah, I would try that if interested.  I am streaming CBC right now on iMac with TunnelBear and Firefox from US location.

Thanks - sounds good.   The Tunnel Bear BBC thing has been great as well.  Tunnel Bear allows use on several devices so I'll try CBC as well.

[Papa Mustache]

Same with me - Tunnel Bear - tune into BBC and watched the Brazil soccer match and China-Argentina basketball game w/o a commercial.  Imagine that.  ABC is just full of BS profiles and if an American is not involved it doesn't show up.  It's really pathetic.

That is a major pet peeve of mine. I'm interested in the American team b/c I'm American however I'm interested in all the other teams too. I've traveled the world a bit. I want something beyond JUST the American perspective.

I swear sometimes I must live in one of those little stereotypical dictatorships where we only get to see our own perspective b/c they are shielding us from the ideas of the rest of the world.

GO BBC (and CBC, etc)!!! Wish I could get the BBC and other international channels legit without the American remix aka BBC America.

[Lagom]

FWIW I tried SlingTV on Roku and it wasn't very good. It functioned wonderfully but it did not include NBC. It did include many of NBC's secondary and tertiary channels that were showing Olympics but not the most popular events. I have an aspiring gymnast in the house and we wanted to see those competitions. No dice with SlingTV without NBC.

It looked like we could have gotten up at 5Am one morning to see a competition.

Also no way to watch events already passed On SlingTV.

We looked around at the other typical cableTV channels and we must be weird b/c none of it was appealing if we had to watch it live and wade through the commercials. I'll just wait until it gets to Hulu without commercials.

You can sign up and turn it off in a week and owe nothing. I turned our's off and it told me that it would still work for two weeks at not cost.

Sling has NBC. It was added pretty recently. They have two tiers, one at $20 and one at $25, the latter of which has NBC.

[Primm]

One of those times you appreciate living in Australia - we may have to get up in the middle of the night (or set the recorder) but the Olympics are broadcast on 3 free-to-air channels here, with reminders. So if you're watching one channel a little scroll comes up along the bottom with "Men's 100m final featuring Usain Bolt in <countdown timer>" so you can switch in a timely fashion.

It's awesome.

[Papa Mustache]

They added NBC since last week when I looked last.

We could have watched OTA but we are too far from the big city to do it without a big lightning rod aka antenna. ;)

[Northwestie]

Same with me - Tunnel Bear - tune into BBC and watched the Brazil soccer match and China-Argentina basketball game w/o a commercial.  Imagine that.  ABC is just full of BS profiles and if an American is not involved it doesn't show up.  It's really pathetic.

That is a major pet peeve of mine. I'm interested in the American team b/c I'm American however I'm interested in all the other teams too. I've traveled the world a bit. I want something beyond JUST the American perspective.

I swear sometimes I must live in one of those little stereotypical dictatorships where we only get to see our own perspective b/c they are shielding us from the ideas of the rest of the world.

GO BBC (and CBC, etc)!!! Wish I could get the BBC and other international channels legit without the American remix aka BBC America.

Use Tunnel Bear dude!!   Straight into BBC