Thank god for the BBC
I’ve been travelling the last few days. In fact I’m typing this right now very early in the morning at Sydney airport. Somehow I managed to arrange things so that I’d be away for both the Malaysian Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix so I was a bit worried that I would be at the mercy of the local TV stations when I wanted to watch the race.
Surely if I could get to an internet connection there must be a way? I brought my PSP to try using remote play to connect to my PS3 back home, but that is always a bit random as to whether the PS3 is going to wake up. Now that the BBC is broadcasting everything online, though, there is another way. The BBC content is restricted to UK IP addresses but there are ways around that.
So in the end I found myself in my hotel room in Singapore watching the Malaysian Grand Prix 200 miles away on my laptop with a connection routed through my home PC in London. And amazingly everything worked perfectly!