Sunday 3rd ranked and undefeated A&M plays LSU at 01:30 Central European time. I am in Central Europe on an extended vacation/ holiday/ self-directed tour/ independent travel and would like to know if anyone knows a cheap easy no nonsense way to see the game.
This could be 1938 all over again!!!
I have used my DirecTV, Amazon Prime and Paramount Apps with a US based VPN IP address to watch programs while overseas. I change the IP location to USA in the VPN app.
See, that's the problem. I dont speak your language. I can do DOS 3.1 if that helps.
What was so great about 1938 for Aggie football? The Aggies were the only team the Horns could beat that year.
I think you can watch on YouTube, but you have to pay.
My bad, 1939
Try searching YouTube when the game starts; someone is likely streaming it.
We watched a couple of college games this way while we were in Italy last month and back in 2022. The quality was pretty good too.
We have YouTubeTV and a VPN but that would not work for us in Europe for the games because YouTubeTV required us to share our location to steam the games.
The UN should do something about this .... NATO even.
1939, no explanation needed.
If you have Internet, you can follow the play-by-play on espn.com. You won't see the game live, but you will know what's happening.
Try YouTube... seriously I have seen lots of SEC games being streamed on there by someone... is it legal, probably not but it works!
I'm not one to recommend people get a VPN for travel for security reasons, but for a sports fan, I think it's maybe worth the hassle to install and figure out.
VPN is that like a salad spinner?
Hahah... yeah... Seriously though, the big commercial VPNs that advertise surely make it fairly straightforward, even for the technologically challenged. Nord VPN and Surfshark are the brands that are lodged in my brain from advertising that you could maybe look at. You'd hope their instructions would be geared towards someone like yourself.
It would open up a whole new world of sports viewing in Hungary for you, as well as watching your team.
The game is the ABC prime time game so I think it will be streamed on ESPN+.
That should work. And it’s easy.
Where is my 8 year old grandson when i need him!
You just need to get over your fear and do it. Go full boomer and print off the instructions.
There's instructions for each device there.
Is there nobody you could ask for help in the city? It might be worth paying someone a little to come over and sort out your phone and computer with a VPN if you're struggling.
Agree, Nord VPN is fast and easy. There is a ‘free trial’ if that helps.
Used it in France and Italy with no problem. Unfortunately was watching the NY Giants…
"Go full boomer and print off the instructions." -- Gerry M, I'll be giggling about this for the rest of the day!
My husband stayed up all night to watch the Superbowl when we were in Cadiz, Spain. My only recommendation is to have a good supply of snacks! ; )
Pizza!
I'm curious, what good is a VPN without a subscription that shows the game? I have a US IP address. I just dint want to buy a subscription. They are expensive. Crazy expensive.
I was thinking to have my daughter in the states put her cell phone in front of her TV and do a WhatsApp video call. Except she lives in DC and i doubt it going to be aired there.
I may have to fly home.
I'm curious, what good is a VPN without a subscription that shows the game?
None. You need to stump up for ESPN+ or whatever network you prefer. There's ways to do it illegally with bootleg streams, that many people use around the world, but I'm no expert and I wouldn't talk about that route here even if I was.
I have a US IP address
When you're in Hungary, no, you don't. You are connecting to the internet through a Hungarian provider with an IP address located in Hungary. The VPN lets you pretend to ESPN that you're in the US, where they can show you the games.
What you'll find on YouTube is more likely to be livestream of some yahoo reacting to what is happening or doing their own color commentary on the game, not the actual game.
GerryM, that's strange because with my US phone I get US Netflix with my Hungarian phone I get Hungarian Netflix (different movies offered on each), on my Hungarian phone i am blocked on some US websites (mostly government things like drivers license renewal) on my US phone, no problem. But ESPN will be different? Interesting.
that's strange because with my US phone I get US Netflix with my Hungarian phone I get Hungarian Netflix
Hmm.. ok. Your phones on 4G (or your router at home) will still each have an IP address that will geolocate to Hungary, I'd have thought. You'd need someone with more network nous than me to work out why that is. In theory you should be able to watch ESPN on your US phone if you pony up for the subscription then.
edit: It sort of sounds like you have a VPN or a proxy on your US phone already. Are there any proper network engineers here?
It took me a while to cotton on...
I have a US IP address.
You do indeed have a US IP address on your US phone. If you didn't set up a VPN or a route to a proxy server in a US location at some point, someone did.
I just dint want to buy a subscription. They are expensive. Crazy expensive.
Well, sounds like your only other avenue if ESPN is too expensive is piracy. You'd need to figure that out on your own.
I'm not looking for anything borderline. I don't even like why people use VPNs. But I presume there is more than one subscription choice and for all I know maybe something free with delay or outside the US market.
As for my phone, and the 2 previous phones and the phones of a couple of friends, one on another carrier, it's worked this way for years. I would say why I believe it works, but then I would sound like I know something and that is certainly not the case. But it's something I have posted about for years and it's the reason I live here and hang on to my US phone ... By the way, you do understand "my US phone" is vernacular for my phone on a US service plan. TMobile in this case but I know a guy with ATT that tested it and it was the same.
The upshot is that it sounds like you would be fine to stream from ESPN on your US phone if you paid the subscription. I'm not really up on where to find sports outside of the network with the live rights to it. I thought it was a connection problem from Hungary.
edit: roaming displays an IP address from T-Mobile in the US, rather than an IP address from the local network picking up the connection. Interesting! I have learned this today. It's essentially proxying at the ISP side. May be quite common practice across other countries / networks, but isn't universal it seems.
Just not a subject I know a lot about so I asked.
Just not a subject I know a lot about so I asked.
Now rated #2
So yeah, it actually sounds like you still need a VPN and an ESPN subscription really. Squinting at a phone paying roaming data costs to see the game doesn't sound ideal, especially if you need to pay ESPN big bucks for it.
I get enough "free" international data to get me through a game. I rarely use the phone except for wifi calling.
Gerry, here's a wild one. I forgot to pay the fee on my Texas prof license. I was traveling in Europe when it was due in January this year. My Hungarian phone was blocked at the state licensing board website. So I used my US phone. Simple, no problem. I was in an air raid shelter at 3am in Kyiv. Then I watched Netflix on my phone (Korean love story) till all clear.
Check your news source. OSU 1, IU 2. All Polls. Whoops. Mayhaps there is a reason for all those Aggie jokes I used to hear from an old friend from Texas.
We write the jokes and there was a purpose lost on outsiders. There was a NY Times article in the mid-1970's that nailed it.
I was being predictive based on tomorrow's games.
Mid-way in the 3rd quarter, it looks like the Ags are taking control.
49 to 25. The Aggies did it again!
Just to let you know, the Dodgers won in case you weren’t able to watch it! 🤣
