Can Airtel IPTV or any other India IPTV be used outside India Technically?

The question does not refer to legality or the terms of usage. The question is if it can be technically be used on an outside broadband in the US. IPTV is an internet protocol but airtel may be restricting its IPTV servers for an internal network. Has anyone tried taking the IPTV out.? Would surely like to know if anyone has tried this setup.

As for the dish the footprint does not fall to the US. The reason here is not to save money but the quality of content HD here in the US is limited to Zee, Sony and Willow.

IPTV does not broadcast TV content over Internet. It broadcast from the local servers. It uses the same wiring as your internet and telephone but you need to be connected to the same servers to access the content from it.

chromaniac said:

IPTV does not broadcast TV content over Internet. It broadcast from the local servers. It uses the same wiring as your internet and telephone but you need to be connected to the same servers to access the content from it.

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chromaniac. Have you tested this box on a different internet connection. I do understand Airtel may be using a local IP for their TV service, however it may be open for the internet. We can't say for sure until someone has tested this out. Technically Providers block IP's by location which can be worked around using DNS or VPN solutions. For example Dishnetwok has the hopper and joey solution and technically I could give you the joey and set you up with VPN to my servers and you'll have the American programming provided you have a stable 30 mbps connection which isin't a big thing here in the US.

from what i remember from the times i had an airtel iptv connection, iptv used a different local port altogether. airtel binded that port to one of the slots on the router they gave. and it only worked on that port. you need to be connected to the airtel wiring to access their local servers because the content is not broadcasted over internet. i think airtel used to reserve 6mbps data for iptv so you were not able to get more than 2mbps for your internet connection.

chromaniac said:

from what i remember from the times i had an airtel iptv connection, iptv used a different local port altogether. airtel binded that port to one of the slots on the router they gave. and it only worked on that port. you need to be connected to the airtel wiring to access their local servers because the content is not broadcasted over internet. i think airtel used to reserve 6mbps data for iptv so you were not able to get more than 2mbps for your internet connection.

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I Understand that the network is binded to a certain port and typically the ISP can differentiate connection from the IPTV vs regular internet for bandwidth counting, however the servers can still be open. In india they have FUP on the internet so the binding becomes a realistic requirement, however we still cannot conclude that the servers are indeed behind their firewall which in this case may very well be. I don't mind picking up one box on my trip to Mumbai this time, but it would be a disappointment to bring it here only to see the server does not negotiate.

The easiest way to test is to take the airtel iptv connected to hathway or another provider and see if the negotiation goes through or it fails in its initial attempt. I don't think it will work due to the speed of the internet but we could at least see what is being negotiated.

Alternatively wireshark can identify the server airtel hits and we can test that out with a tcp ping which would still not give concluded results.