Watching the Vols from abroad.

[Oldvoldad]

I know this gets discussed here almost every year, but I'm looking for the latest and greatest technology. I will be in Japan for the meat of this years schedule.

What is the latest technology to help me consistently see the Vols live?

I will hang up and listen.

 

[WillisWG]

same as it every was, use a VPN. Since Japan is 14 hours ahead you could just wait until the AM then watch Freak's Game post

 

[SquirrelOrange3]

I know this gets discussed here almost every year, but I'm looking for the latest and greatest technology. I will be in Japan for the meat of this years schedule.

What is the latest technology to help me consistently see the Vols live?

I will hang up and listen.

I've spent many years in northeast Asia too, and will tell you what I've done.

For years, I watched games on the bootleg streaming services like crackstreams.me. For the past couple of seasons, I've been watching college football and college basketball games on YouTube.

YouTube works better for most games. It's a smoother stream with less lag. If it's a major game, however, it's better to watch on a site devoted to piracy because YouTube shuts down the showings of playoff games, championship games, or even big regular season games like the upcoming Texas vs. Ohio State game every few minutes. On YouTube, an important thing to do is leave the game in the search bar: "Texas Ohio State football" with the filter set to "Today". Each time it gets shut down, people load it back on VERY fast. It's always YouTubers with Vietnamese names. You'll see what I mean when you start watching these. Most games, even a good game like Oklahoma vs. Tennessee probably won't get shut down and will stream smoothly for the full length of the game. ETSU vs. Tennessee almost certainly won't get shut down. But I was having to refresh the search bar every minute or two during a Bama/Georgia game a few years ago, especially during the fourth quarter.

Crackstreams, from my experience, is one of the most dependable of the outright piracy sites. Sportsurge dot net has a lot of streaming sites compiled for each game.

As you know, Japan is 13 hours ahead of us right now and 14 hours after daylight savings time ends, so the games often happen in the middle of the night. Luckily, my bosses have been really cool for letting me go into my workplace so I can watch one game on my laptop and one on the desktop there in the office. I sometimes have a third one on my phone. The way I sell the idea is that my father is hard of hearing, which is no lie, and I don't want my neighbors to hear me yelling to him when the game starts at 2:15 a.m. Keep in mind that it's sometimes better to watch Tennessee games alone and just watch the Bama vs. Vandy type games with relatives and friends on FaceTime since your stream is going to be behind theirs, especially if you're watching on a non-YouTube stream, and people are bad for giving spoilers, more so during games they're emotionally attached to.

 

[Oldvoldad]

I've spent many years in northeast Asia too, and will tell you what I've done.

For years, I watched games on the bootleg streaming services like crackstreams.me. For the past couple of seasons, I've been watching college football and college basketball games on YouTube.

YouTube works better for most games. It's a smoother stream with less lag. If it's a major game, however, it's better to watch on a site devoted to piracy because YouTube shuts down the showings of playoff games, championship games, or even big regular season games like the upcoming Texas vs. Ohio State game every few minutes. On YouTube, an important thing to do is leave the game in the search bar: "Texas Ohio State football" with the filter set to "Today". Each time it gets shut down, people load it back on VERY fast. It's always YouTubers with Vietnamese names. You'll see what I mean when you start watching these. Most games, even a good game like Oklahoma vs. Tennessee probably won't get shut down and will stream smoothly for the full length of the game. ETSU vs. Tennessee almost certainly won't get shut down. But I was having to refresh the search bar every minute or two during a Bama/Georgia game a few years ago.

Crackstreams, from my experience, is one of the most dependable of the outright piracy sites. Sportsurge dot net has a lot of streaming sites compiled for each game.

As you know, Japan is 13 hours ahead of us right now and 14 hours after daylight savings time ends, so the games often happen in the middle of the night. Luckily, my bosses have been really cool for letting me go into my workplace so I can watch one game on my laptop and one on the desktop there in the office. I sometimes have a third one on my phone. The way I sell the idea is that my father is hard of hearing, which is no lie, and I don't want my neighbors to hear me yelling to him when the game starts at 2:15 a.m. Keep in mind that it's sometimes better to watch Tennessee games alone and just watch the Bama vs. Vandy type games with relatives and friends on FaceTime since your stream is going to be behind theirs, especially if you're watching on a non-YouTube stream, and people are bad for giving spoilers, more so during games they're emotionally attached to.

Thanks! This is the detailed type information I was looking for. I have had so many mixed results over the years. Every time I think I've got it mastered, they seem to change on me.

 

[SquirrelOrange3]

Thanks! This is the detailed type information I was looking for. I have had so many mixed results over the years. Every time I think I've got it mastered, they seem to change on me.

Yeah, in 2006 I watched all of the CBS games on CBSsports dot com but not long after that, they changed it to where you couldn't watch games outside of the US. That's when I started watching the bootleg sites. Grandma Streams is another of the more reliable sites often linked on SportSurge (or maybe it's SportsUrge) dot net. I actually watch a lot of games on YouTube even in the USA just to have an extra game going. It's especially handy during basketball season for obscure games that I want to watch.

The movie piracy sites change especially fast. tbcpl.lol has a pretty decent compilation of bootleg streaming services for TV & film and they update it often. My favorite these days is watch32.sx, but these get shut down so fast.