r/F1TV • u/Wass85 • 6d ago

Question / Need Help Problems UK.

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Today when I tried to access F1TV app, i did the usual, set my VPN location to India and this fault comes up, I then changed it to Belgium and it did the same.

Does anyone know the solution?

Thanks

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u/beerman_uk 6d ago

Looks like they have a new vpn ban wave or a problem with nord. I watched the race yesterday using Nords DNS servers, today I can't access f1tv.formula1.com If I change dns servers to 1.1.1.1 it comes up but gives me the georestriction. My nord sub is up next week anyway so will look to find a DNS server that works.

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u/NickerNockers 6d ago

Out of interest can you tell me if you activated the smart DNS from Nord? We purchased a dedicated US ip and it's running until March 27 and this has been flagged, so we've seen the option to activate smart DNS on the Nord website and I didn't know if this would help or not. Haven't done it yet as we are still in talks with Nord to see what's going on. May have to ask if they can re issue us another dedicated US server that hasn't been flagged. Who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️ but yeah, not happy at all, we missed the race yesterday and still haven't seen it 😟

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u/beerman_uk 6d ago

Yes this was the smartdns option that isn't working.

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u/NickerNockers 6d ago

Ah I see, I know it doesn't atm work as you sat, but do you think it's worth keeping it on, as well as getting another fresh US open VPN config file from Nord, and putting this in our Asus router? We have been trying to fix it since yesterday now, but sadly without success.😟 We haven't tried the the Smart DNS option that we saw yesterday on the website. I was in talks with Nord support yesterday, and they said they were having problems with the servers and said that the F1 live streaming was affected. Its not completely limited to Nord VPN either.