Anyone find a way to watch NBA League Pass Broadband In Canada? [Archive]

tribe1689

Jan 10th, 2009, 05:50 PM

It's ridiculous, the only reason I have cable TV is to watch basketball. I have no interest in anything else on tv, so I figured if there was a way to get NBA broadband for the regular season and then just subscribe to Cable for 3 months or so, I'd be set. But there is no NBA League pass broadband available for Canadians.

ramaslamma

Jan 10th, 2009, 05:53 PM

http://www.myp2p.eu/

radeonboy

Jan 10th, 2009, 07:34 PM

Well when they had the NBA League pass free trial, I signed up and couldn't watch it since like you said there was restrictions.

But I found a program called Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree that allowed me to watch NBA League Pass (the program basically sets up a VPN and gives your IP address a different one). Free program and now I can watch NBA League Pass and Hulu! Sweet

Unicron

Jan 10th, 2009, 07:35 PM

www.justin.tv

go to the sports section and lots of live games there

markj

Jan 10th, 2009, 08:42 PM

isnt this available in canada? it says it is on the website? my brother wanted to get this as he doesnt want to get cable either...if it did work i guess its a sd and not hd feed right?

tribe1689

Jan 10th, 2009, 09:15 PM

Where specifically does it say on the site that it's available in Canada?

xpoint9

Jan 10th, 2009, 09:27 PM

Well when they had the NBA League pass free trial, I signed up and couldn't watch it since like you said there was restrictions.

But I found a program called Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree that allowed me to watch NBA League Pass (the program basically sets up a VPN and gives your IP address a different one). Free program and now I can watch NBA League Pass and Hulu! Sweet
ditto
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tribe1689

Jan 10th, 2009, 09:30 PM

Well when they had the NBA League pass free trial, I signed up and couldn't watch it since like you said there was restrictions.

But I found a program called Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree that allowed me to watch NBA League Pass (the program basically sets up a VPN and gives your IP address a different one). Free program and now I can watch NBA League Pass and Hulu! Sweet

Do you have NBA League pass? I'm curious what it actually looks like, with regards to resolution and smoothness...

radeonboy

Jan 11th, 2009, 06:44 PM

Do you have NBA League pass? I'm curious what it actually looks like, with regards to resolution and smoothness...

Theres screenshots on their site regarding how it looks.

Resolution and speed is only good if you have a fast connection. Sometimes it does lag for me but thats because I don't have the fastest connection (3Web kinda sucks sometimes). Otherwise it was fine.

But my free time expired so now I'm just watching through other sources.

markj

Jan 11th, 2009, 07:28 PM

http://www.nba.com/leaguepass/online.html?cid=179

look at the bottom of the page:

If you are not in the U.S. or Canada and are looking for International NBA LEAGUE PASS BROADBAND, click here.

tribe1689

Jan 11th, 2009, 07:33 PM

http://www.nba.com/leaguepass/online.html?cid=179

look at the bottom of the page:

If you are not in the U.S. or Canada and are looking for International NBA LEAGUE PASS BROADBAND, click here.

When I go to that link and "sign up" and put in my email address and password, on the second step it says this:

We're sorry, but the US version of League Pass Broadband is not available in your region.

If you are outside the US and Canada and are looking for League Pass Broadband, please visit http://ilp.nba.com

If you believe you have reached this page in error, please:

Maybe it's my ISP? Can anyone from Canada confirm that they have actually gotten NBA League pass? I'd change ISPs if I really have to, but I think they may plain not offer it in Canada, even though they say they do....

markj

Jan 11th, 2009, 07:38 PM

well maybe they just say they offer it and dont...not really sure...

we always kind of get screwed with nba here in canada...reallly sucks

radeonboy

Jan 11th, 2009, 08:07 PM

When I go to that link and "sign up" and put in my email address and password, on the second step it says this:

Maybe it's my ISP? Can anyone from Canada confirm that they have actually gotten NBA League pass? I'd change ISPs if I really have to, but I think they may plain not offer it in Canada, even though they say they do....

You gotta use HotSpot Shield to register...

tribe1689

Jan 11th, 2009, 08:12 PM

You gotta use HotSpot Shield to register..

To register, or to register and use? Because, correct me if I'm wrong (as I have no clue), but from when I remember trying hotspot shield for another purpose, it would hide me but it would also significantly slow my internet speeds. This would defeat the purpose if I get lagging games...

antonz

Feb 3rd, 2010, 05:19 PM

hi all ... just wondering if anyone knows if hotspotshield is still working to get nba LP from Canada? if so, don't you have give a credit card number to sign up for LP and wouldn't the credit card number be linked to an address in Canada and thereby foil your attempt to circumvent the ridiculousness of not being able to get LP in Canada?

MonkeyBallZJr

Feb 4th, 2010, 01:23 AM

hi all ... just wondering if anyone knows if hotspotshield is still working to get nba LP from Canada? if so, don't you have give a credit card number to sign up for LP and wouldn't the credit card number be linked to an address in Canada and thereby foil your attempt to circumvent the ridiculousness of not being able to get LP in Canada?

NBA league pass broadband is available for Canadian residents, the site just screws up when you try to register with a Canadian IP address....

Anyways I have it, I think as long as you have an American IP address when you register even with a Canadian credit card you are fine.

hotspotshield didn't work for me, so I use ultrasurf instead, much more easier. just run it, and it opens up IE

http://www.software112.com/products/ultrasurf.html

It also bypasses the blackout when you try to watch Raptors game, you can close ultrasurf once you get the game going.

antonz

Feb 4th, 2010, 08:15 AM

thanks for the info ... very helpful

cheers

Obi Wan

Feb 4th, 2010, 10:25 PM

IIRC I signed up without an American IP (NBALPBB is available to Canadians), BUT I do have to use hotspotshield whenever I want to watch raptors games

tribe1689

Feb 4th, 2010, 10:28 PM

For those who have NBA League pass, I assume you don't have Cable TV? If that is the case, how do you handle watching the nationally televized games, like the TNT Thursdays (which I'm watching now lol) and the ESPN games? Those are concurrently shown in Canada at the same time via one of the canadian channels, so they are blacked out from NBA league pass no matter if you use a proxy or not.

shaolinmonk

Aug 31st, 2010, 06:12 PM

bump from the dead... basketball season is upon us.. any idea if this is till gonna work? also are we getting hd quality streams yet?

markj

Aug 31st, 2010, 09:08 PM

supposedly there is now a tnt version of this for the playoff games...dont know if its available in canada

http://www.nba.com/2010/news/04/13/turner.nbaplayoffs/

also i downloaded this android nba league pass app for android...doesnt seem to work but maybe it will with a usa vpn? anyone tried it (available for iphone too)?

shaolinmonk

Aug 31st, 2010, 10:03 PM

supposedly there is now a tnt version of this for the playoff games...dont know if its available in canada

http://www.nba.com/2010/news/04/13/turner.nbaplayoffs/

also i downloaded this android nba league pass app for android...doesnt seem to work but maybe it will with a usa vpn? anyone tried it (available for iphone too)?

i used the iphone version you need to fake the location for it to work...