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iPad Any Way to Bypass Optimum/Cablevision Home Network Requirement?

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npro1464

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I dled the Optimum app where you can watch live tv, but you can only watch it while your at home. What's the point? Why would I watch live tv from my iPad at home when I could just watch live tv from a tv?!

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any way around this. Is there any way to spoof the home network or make the App think that your at home? Thanks!
 
x2 - I'd like to know this as well.
Kind of pointless if you can only watch when you're home. Although it is cool.
 
I don't have the ipad yet, but is there any kind of VPN client you can run on it so you can get your "internal" IP address? (I'm assuming that's what the cable company is looking for)...

--rob
 
I could be wrong but I think I read somewhere that it actually uses the mac address of the cable modem.
 
Ipad has a built in VPN client. You need to setup a VPN connect on your home computer or router and then you would connect to it from outside from your ipad. once VPN is established you will be able to stream cablevision app
 
There are others already doing this but they didn't post how they set it up.

Last night I downloaded and installed EasyVPN to configure 10.6 as a VPN server. I was able to connect VPN on the iPad but I couldn't get any IP to route. I might have done something wrong setting up the VPN server. Will try it again.

http://www.squashedsoftware.com/products-easyvpn.php
 
Just got VPN up and running. Works great and not a bad quality.

I used PPTP vpn as its one of the protocols that ipad supports.


My firewall is a thinclient box that I converted to M0n0wall Firewall.

I enabled PPTP VPN on my m0n0wall, configured server ip and client ips. Created user account and then replicated those settings on ipad vpn client.

Connected to my android phone running wifi hotspot and was able to connect to my VPN at home. Launched Cablevision software and it started streaming.

Coleman - PM me if you need help, I can take a look and check whats wrong with your setup if you want
 
kalex said:
Just got VPN up and running. Works great and not a bad quality.

I used PPTP vpn as its one of the protocols that ipad supports.


My firewall is a thinclient box that I converted to M0n0wall Firewall.

I enabled PPTP VPN on my m0n0wall, configured server ip and client ips. Created user account and then replicated those settings on ipad vpn client.

Connected to my android phone running wifi hotspot and was able to connect to my VPN at home. Launched Cablevision software and it started streaming.

Coleman - PM me if you need help, I can take a look and check whats wrong with your setup if you want
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Sent a PM your way.
 
npro1464 said:
I dled the Optimum app where you can watch live tv, but you can only watch it while your at home. What's the point? Why would I watch live tv from my iPad at home when I could just watch live tv from a tv?!
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I don't have a TV in my bathroom.
I don't have a TV in my garage workshop.
I don't have a TV in my kitchen.
I don't have a TV in my loft.
I can watch TV and have a ballgame on the iPad.
Did I mention I can watch TV when I'm taking a dump? :D

Oh yeah, the app is also green. Instead of leaving my LCD power hungry TV on as background noise when I work, I now use the iPad.

That said, I wouldn't mind the capability to watch outside of home.
 
rdowns said:
I don't have a TV in my bathroom.
I don't have a TV in my garage workshop.
I don't have a TV in my kitchen.
I don't have a TV in my loft.
I can watch TV and have a ballgame on the iPad.
Did I mention I can watch TV when I'm taking a dump? :D

Oh yeah, the app is also green. Instead of leaving my LCD power hungry TV on as background noise when I work, I now use the iPad.

That said, I wouldn't mind the capability to watch outside of home.
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You can also watch on your deck, in your back yard or where ever you tell your wife you are presently working or fixing!
 
Is there a tutorial for Windows? And I don't use a WiFi router. I only created an ad-hoc network. Will that complicate things?
 
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