For 6 months of the year I live in Thailand but I have a home in England were I my own personal server. Amongst other things I use the server to run get_iplayer on. I log on to the server via ssh and manually run get_iplayer. I also run get_iplayer via a crontab schedule. I can then download manually from my server to my netbook in Thailand. This all works great apart from the downloads from my server are limited by the slow broadband upload speed. This brings me to my main purpose for this posting. I also use server to stream BBC TV and the higher quality radio streams. I do this by opening a ssh tunnel and redirecting a port thus:- ssh - -D 1080 [email protected]
I then run get_iplayer locally (in Thailand) via tsocks. What this does is forwards all get_iplayer's network requests to my server in England. This works but again, the streams are limited in speed by the upload speed of my server's broadband, I can only stream the very low quality TV. My question is is if I set up my England server as a proxy server will I suffer the same speed limitation? Does the network traffic still pass through my home server? I Have also experimented with other method's UKiVPN, a UK based VPN company. They charge £5 a month for a UK based VPN service. This workks great but it seems stupid for me to pay £5 a month when I have my own UK server! -- Not sent from an iPhoney. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
