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Can you trick the internet to think your within a "home" network without a mac home?

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Joshiboi099

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Jul 2, 2012
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I have a new Mac book Pro and would like to watch my time warner cable overseas whilst i travel. (via the web site)

I have seen posts on how to do this with a computer on at home. I am however without this luxury. Can i set up my router or anything so i can get around this issue?

Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.

:)
 
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miles01110 said:
Subscribe to a VPN service.
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I can change my ip address very easily. I have access to vpn software. (only certain ip's i can't just manually put one in) That does give me a USA IP which is half the battle, but then i'm looking at getting into my home network, making the computer think its home.
 
"Getting into your home network" needs to be reconciled with your earlier statement that you are "without this luxury" of having a computer at home. If you don't have a computer on your home network, obviously you cannot use this non-existent computer to stream media from.
 
miles01110 said:
"Getting into your home network" needs to be reconciled with your earlier statement that you are "without this luxury" of having a computer at home. If you don't have a computer on your home network, obviously you cannot use this non-existent computer to stream media from.
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ok sure thing. thats what i was asking. thank you.
i was just wondering if you could port forward somehow in router settings to get in. all good.
 
Something like a Hava Monsoon maybe? I'm not sure if it supports OS X but it's worth looking into.
 
Gaining access to the TWC TV site from outside of your home and ESPECIALLY outside of the country will be extremely difficult if not impossible without a computer running in your home (even with one the experience wouldn't be great). The reason for this is because TimeWarner doesn't have the rights to distribute content outside of your home.

What I suggest you do is buy a Slingbox. You connect it directly to your cable box and to your internet connection and it will stream your TV over the internet. You'll get all of your channels, not just the ones available on TWC TV. There are no monthly fees or anything, you just have to pay for the box itself. Check it out at http://slingbox.com
 
Step 1) ensure you have a bitchin' internet connection

Step 2) ensure you have a router capable of running a VPN

Step 3) set up VPN on said router

Step 4) connect to VPN on MBP from anywhere in the world

Step 5) profit ;)
 
I have done all of this for exactly the same reason, TWC live while in EMEA. It doesn't work... I tried everything from VPN to even trying LogMeIn Ignition. THe only thing that worked even remotely well was SlingBox Pro HD. One of the big reasons was that even if you could get into your network and see live TWC, the minimum 5 hour difference means that when you are ready to watch TV, its late night shows for an hour and then infomercials.

THe sling box worked well since I could control my DVRs and access recorded television, but man does it require some bandwidth, both up and down.

Good luck with the experiment.
 
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