I'm just about to move out to Japan and am just wondering what I can do to see and hear some Scottish football.

I might get some TV coverage out there because of Nakamura, but I won't be able to get the highlights and radio commentary from the BBC website because I'm outside of the UK.

Anyone know if it'll be possible to do better than watching the results on Sky Sports Centre and getting the odd dodgy live match over the net?

I know that Match of the Day torrents are pretty common, but are there any Full SPL / Sportscene torrents that I could pick up every week? Being able to listen to Sportsound would be a brilliant, but I'm thinking that won't be possible?

Cheers for all advice!

I'm in Thailand and haven't found a reliable way to do it yet.

From what I've worked out the way to do it is to have a friend or family member with a good connection run a server on their machine which you can connect to.

If you google "bbc iplayer abroad" and look for stuff on IT/computer specific sites you should find some stuffand set it up before you leave.

Cheers, will have a look into that.

What's the deal with listening to BBC radio over the internet? I know it won't be possible to get iPlayer legally or football commentary but I was under the impression that you can could listen to BBC Radio Scotland, 5 Live, etc anywhere in the world?

You can listen to the normal radio, Off the ball, and the pre-match part of Sportsound, but it cuts off when the commentary starts if it's picked up you're outside the UK. You just get a looped message "For contractual reasons -blah blah"

I've a pal who's a real tech geek, he mentioned something to me about a proxy server. Its something to do with routing your internet connection through a connection in the UK, so it appears you are accessing from the UK. So you could then get the highlights from the BBC website. Sounds pretty complicated though.

There's loads of steams you can get from the internet, but the Scottish football ones I've foudn to be pretty unreliable.

I've looked at proxies but none of those I've tried have been fast enough for streaming. If your mate can recommend a particular server that's good, I'll be much obliged. Even then I'm still hampered by the god awful internet infrastructure here.

You could buy a slingbox and leave it with a friend who is going to be watching football on setanta, that way you can watch every game he watches, slingbox costs about £120, but would be the least hassle way of watching.

Japan would be O.K, but some parts of the far east would not have good enough internet to cope.

Can't you just change your IP address as shown on youtube to give it a UK IP?

you cannot change your ip address

you could use a proxy to fool the beeb into thinking you're a uk user though.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3582754.htm theres people chatting about the issue - looks like the beeb are onto the proxies!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7vEInZFaM

What does that do then?

That has to be the most pointless video ever!

When your adsl modem connects to your ISP it gets assigned an IP address, which is what the outside world sees you as - ie what BBC, youtube etc use to work out where you are.

If you unplug your modem and plug it back in again it will re-establish a connection with the ISP and be assigned another IP address (it might be assigned the same one which is why he did the ipconfig/release, to make sure it was different).

The cunning flaw in the plan, is that the IP address will be in a range owned by your ISP, therefore, will always show you as in the same location as any other IP address you might get.

Its basic networking stuff, certainly not worthy of a video on youtube Also, its not changing your IP address, simply being assigned a different one.

I thought it might have been. Just there's hunners of videos showing it. I guessed one of them had to be correct . Obviously not.

Its only really handy if you have been banned from a forum/site/irc page to let you back in/on, cant think of any other reason myself.

Cheers for all the responses guys.

I think it's going to be a case of searching the internet to see if anyone puts The Full SPL or Sportscene on a torrent. Beyond that, if there's a big game I think I'll get somebody to play the radio through Skype!

Regarding the BBC Sportsound programme cutting out when matches start, I've noticed that they seem to be doing this 'open mics' thing regularly where they just broadcast from the studio and wait for the goals to come in. I wonder if it would be possible to listen to that outside the UK... I might fire of an e-mail to the BBC and see what they say. With there being no commentary it's possible that you might be able to get it abroad.

Don't know how much good it'll be for Scottish games but this site seems to be getting good things said about it an another forum I use.

http://www.sopcast.org/

Sportscene gets put up every tuesday on uknova.com.

Just wanted to say cheers for this!

Out in Japan now and uknova is brilliant. Can get more or less everything worth having through that site and am up to date on MOTD and Sportscene. The 100mps internet out here is serving me well!

Will hopefully find a decent streaming site for Scotland v Macedonia next week.

I hadn't thought of using torrents. I did use to use them for watching Scottish football highlights, but the only one that got put up was Sportscene :S

There's the website that streams Celtic games with the retard doing commentary, Tictalk I think, I have seen The Full SPL available for download there. Course if you can't get a half decent internet connection all this is pointless, but you shouldn't have a problem in Japan.

Anyone else abroad might be interested to hear that the 'open mics' programme can be heard anywhere in the world. Was listening to it on Saturday through a link at the BBC SPL page.