Sky Go and VPN

[kaneki83]

Hi folks

Sorry if this the wrong sub, but I've run into an annoying issue. I use Sky Go to watch sports on my laptop. However, as I'm in a different country now, I need to use a VPN to do so. Up until late last year, everything ran smoothly.

However, lately something has changed, and Sky Go seems to detect the VPN and kick me out of the broadcast. I have fiddled around with pretty much every setting there is, including Static IP and MultiHop, but nothing works - I get kicked out after a couple minutes and have to restart my laptop to be able to start the broadcast again.

As I know fairly little about VPNs, I was hoping someone could give me some pointers as to what to do here?

Thanks in advance

(I'm on macOS. Sky Go, VPN and OS are running on the latest updates)

[caesarome]

You will not get anywhere asking on the official Sky forum on how to get past this restriction as all we can say is the app is built to detect when a VPN is being used which is why this is happening.

[TimmyBGood]

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@kaneki83 wrote:

Sky Go seems to detect the VPN and kick me out of the broadcast.

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Yes, that would be the idea.  Good to know something related to Go is actually working as designed ; )