Hi Bunter, can you or any other members give me the benefit of your knowledge? When our old TV broke down last year we were advised to buy a smart TV, which could work with the internet but after buying it was later told it was blocked so could not use it with the internet, so we then spent a fortune on buying a huge dish etc. but we are back in the same position of no signal and only works intermittently. So I looked at all the posts relating to the TV on the forum and saw that members were getting TV through the internet. So we tried Filmon and it worked but because of my wife's poor health its very difficult for her to come into the room where the computer is and watch the TV on the computer screen but after speaking to a person with next to no English and I having very little Spanish I believe he said that with us having a smart TV we could connect the wifi box to the TV by an ethernet cable and this should allow her to watch the UK TV on the telly, is this correct? Secondly we would need several metres of cable, so does anyone know where we can buy this cable and fittings in the Tortosa area and  what would we ask for as our only alternative we have been offered, is yet another expensive box and package which would cost hundreds of euros again with no guarantee that this service would not fail as well.
Yours Bulldog.

Reply to Bulldog
There is a chance that you can get the UK TV from your computer to your TV without buying anything. There is a system called EZCast (easy cast in english) that allows you to 'cast' ie send videos, pictures etc from computer, tablet, mobile phone to the tv. If you have  a smart TV, it may have a cast application built in. You need to consult the manual. If not, you can get a EZCast dongle via ebay for under £10. The TV must have an HDMI socket - again refer to the manual. EZcast software can be downloaded free to most platforms. So dont buy anything yet until you have tried a few things. Also what size sat dish have you got ?
David

Many thanks all for the info given it was much appreciated.
The dish size is 1.8 mts. and the TV is an L.G Smart TV LN57. I went to Beep this morning but he advised me against the length of cable but he supplied me with a powerline adapter started kit which we tried out and it does get Tunnelbear from the computer to the TV, so at least we are getting something on the TV screen. At present the freesat box is still getting no signal except on the odd occasion when it gets ITV, ch5 and 4hd, I just wondered if this is happening to anybody else?
Thanks again Bulldog.

Hi Bulldog

             David is right however a lot of these 1.8 dishes do not deliver. Nigel went to great lengths with area testing before he started installing them however after Sky and the UK footprint changed some were not getting the full list of channels Nigel in good faith hoped he would provide. We had very strong winds a few weeks ago and the dish may have moved or your LNB worked loose it only takes a small shift to cause problems. I would have this checked before paying out any more cash for other avenues of reception. You should be able to use one of the other VPN providers to change your DNS settings on your LG TV see link below. The after sales service re help and assistance is second to none. Tunnelbear I love but does not provide the DNS settings option. I am in the same boat as others in that I have a 80cm dish but do not get BBC1 etc but I do get channel 5 HD and 4 and 4 plus 1 from the other setting channels on my Sky box. I can get Sky catchup via my UK router. I also have an android box for all the Sky movies and Sky/Bt Sports. I can get all the USA film channels as well. I could ditch Sky but I like to make sure if Kodi folded good old Sky would provide something for my wife to view. That may change in the new year when Sky change their system (SKY Q) and present LNBs and set top boxes will not be able to access SKY. I do not know if the old and the new will run in tandem.

http://grcade.co.uk/t:sky-set-to-announce-new-skyq-4k-enabled-box



Remember Bulldog you have to subscribe to Unblock-us before you use their system but I believe there is a free trial to see if it works for you.

https://support.unblock-us.com/customer/en/portal/articles/291584-how-to-setup-y
our-lg-smart-tv-with-unblock-us

Upgrade to the new sky plus app on your tablet etc as the new December 15th upgrade now contains BBC iplayer YESSSSSSSSS BBC and Sky wow who would think they would ever get into bed together.  Grin

For Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.android.skyplus&hl=en_GB



For apple products

What's New in Version 5.2

You can now access iPlayer listings on the app

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky+/id301250225?mt=8

Hi all, thanks for all your help. For the last 11mths we have received all the free channels with no problems even after the strong winds but from around the 18th Nov. it started to play up and we lost all channels except Sky news ( our box is a Humax ) for about a week, then they started to come back bit by bit. We have lost them several times now for varying lengths of time but yesterday we got back BBC1HD, ITVHD, 4HD and 5HD which we still have at present but for how long we do not know. So we wondered if anyone else has the same problem?
Yours Bulldog.