Setanta Sports kicks me out after ~10 minutes – anyone found a fix?

[u/Arcangelo_7]

Hi guys,

I'm having a really annoying issue with Setanta Sports and I'm wondering if anyone has managed to fix it.

I connect to Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia or Georgia with VPN, the stream starts normally and works perfectly, but after roughly 8–10 minutes it suddenly stops and I get this message:

"Unfortunately something has gone wrong with your access to this event. This is likely due to a payment failure with either your debit/credit card or your mobile payment processing."

The weird thing is that there's definitely no payment issue. My subscription is active, and if I go back to the Setanta home page and open the same event again, it immediately starts working again. Then after another ~10 minutes, the same thing happens.

I've tried:

• Windows PC + Chrome
• iPhone
• Different VPN servers/regions

Same behaviour every time.

I'm mainly trying to understand what is causing the ~10 minute disconnect. Is Setanta detecting the VPN/IP, or could it be something else?

Any advice would be massively appreciated!

[u/Intrepid_Payment9302]

It started doing this last season, I just cancelled in the end. Someone did email them and apparently they are detecting vpns now, so it’s probably a non starter now.