Finland made it to the IIHF (Ice Hockey) 2007 World Championship semi-finals. We’re playing against the host country Russia on Saturday May 12th. The other semi-final will be against Canada and Sweden.

Lehtinen scores the winning goal
IHWC.net: Finland edges USA in shootout, faces Russia next

WARNING: The next part can be very scary if you’re not very tech savy.

I’ve had a little bit of problems watching this year’s world championships. They’re not really showing it here in Spain. Finland’s National Broadcasting Company YLE is streaming the games over the Internet, but you have to have a finnish IP address and it’s Microsoft’s ASF-video stream. I’ve been trying to connect to my schools servers in Finland with SSH and using their web-proxy to see the matches, but they are only letting me use the HTTP (80) port and that’s not enough for ASF-streaming. I’ve tried other proxies with not much success. I think it’s also a problem with the incompatibility with ASF and my system. I’ve already gave up with trying to get this to work.

I found another way. YLE is also streaming the radio over the internet and I’ve been able to listen to the commentary. That’s also a Windows Media-format and also restricted to Finnish IP, but I’ve been able to get it work by using my schools web proxy through SSH and listening to it. I also wanted a picture, so I found this. A p2p streaming service to watch the games. So I watched most of the Finland-USA match from Swiss TV-broadcast streamed over the internet with p2p technology and at the same time listened the finnish commentary from finnish radio stream by a web proxy tunneled though ssh.

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