Anybody know if the Bolton game on I follow?

Please?

 

No would be my guess unless possibly you are abroad

 

he is, he is in North Yorkshire

 

I’m wondering if signing into a VPN will work, ie appearing to be overseas when you’re not. I’ve got one and I was thinking of trying it tomorrow

 

Please let me know as I was wondering about this myself. In most cases, not going to away games, but contributing to the clubs coffers - so a win, win IMHO.....

 

No Carabao Cup games on iFollow sadly.

 

I will let you know. It worked the other way round when I was in Spain first three months of this year. iFollow recognised me as an overseas subscriber so I got the away games slightly cheaper (£8 something instead of £10) but when I wanted to watch BBC content or Sky on my PC I used the VPN to hook up to a London server, thus letting me in to things I wanted. I am only guessing that if I fire up the VPN tomorrow, select a server in another country (I suppose any will do) I will hopefully be seen as an overseas resident and thus be able to buy my match day pass for Cardiff, and so on. I generally spend half the year in Spain so I'm a semi-foreigner, aren't I?

 

Good that means i should get it in West Yorkshire(Ackworth)

 

I'm watching it in the most ultra high definition imaginable for the fantastic price of £10! And I cannot wait!

 

So far so good. I've taken my rocket plane and landed in Madrid this morning (via VPN ). Signed into iFollow, bought a match pass for 11 euros and had confirmation that the payment is taken. Just need to wait for 3pm now to see the live pictures. Fingers crossed....

 

Thanks to a daughter with IT background, I have a VPN, and have bought a pass in the US. Payment already gone from my account, and the payment in dollars came to less than £8! Just one query -- Do I need to watch the game on VPN, or is that necessary just for the payment? -- Just thought that reception on the VPN might not be so good?

 

Well, in my experience, VPN just works in the background fooling the system into believing you are somewhere you are not. When I was using it in Spain, a few months ago, I saw no deterioration in the transmission of away matches that I had paid for. Same goes for when I was watching Sky Sports on my PC or other things like BBC Player and Prime Video that would not work after 1 January outside of the UK. As I say, and I am far from being an IT expert, the VPN seems to be nothing more than a portal.

Time will tell when it gets to kick off time but I hope it works. Like others have said, I have no problem paying a tenner or so to watch an away game by whichever means possible. Where is the problem with that?

 

A PS to my last post. I don't know which VPN you are using but I am subscribed to PrivateVPN - a Swedish company I think. When I first started using it I couldn't access the services I wanted so I went onto their instantly accessible helpdesk and got excellent and useful advice. The guy told me that when you select the server you want to connect to there are two lists. The first one "All Servers" should be ignored - I had to pick from the second list called "Dedicated IP" which is a much shorter list. Just scroll down that list to whichever you want to use - Madrid in my case - and it should work.

Your VPN may not have those two options. I just mention it because mine does and it would only work if I chose from the Dedicated IP list. Hope that helps

 

Mine had a very long list, on which several of the sources were marked as "Suitable for streaming" - so just picked one of those. Fingers crossed eh?

 

Yes let’s hope so. I doubt that all VPN services are the same and I tried another before cancellation and opting for PrivateVPN. Done everything I want it do so far. Today is a new test

 

Clear view of CC Stadium. All good so far via VPN. Just need a result now

 

Thanks for the update - much appreciated!

 

Just to give my experience from doing the same trick on Saturday:

VPN'd to Netherlands, bought the pass, important to note that I did this under my regular BFC account through which I have my season ticket and bought the games in the UK last year. Had to stream whilst on VPN also. Even with that, it kicked me out every ten minutes saying I didn't have permission to view. To fix this, I had to log out of the BFC website, close the browser, open a new one and log back in. Which was a pain, but I'd do it again, probably. The dedicated IP thing you mention might be worth looking at for me.

 

Shame you can't buy through the Carabao website like last season.

 

For anybody wanting to go down the VPN route I have NordVPN. It has the best servers and is reliable. I bought a 3 year subscription last year for just over £100, I use it for other things too. It worked perfectly alway through, I was in Switzerland for the afternoon