BBC IPlayer

[ukman]

Can anyone tell me if you are able to view bbc iplayer in the states from the internet.

[CERICROWLEY]

No

Tried it in February, It is not available outside the UK

[roger]

We run it from here but have a UK Proxy IP address, so can watch BBC and ITV. It costs a few £'s per month with no contract, but only useful if you are taking your own laptop with you (as it needs configration on your own machine).

[FraserLynn]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by roger
We run it from here but have a UK Proxy IP address, so can watch BBC and ITV. It costs a few £'s per month with no contract, but only useful if you are taking your own laptop with you (as it needs configration on your own machine).
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Who do you use Roger? I am just about to set one up, but want to be sure that they are UK based

[roger]

We use ScotHosts for this at http://www.ukproxyserver.co.uk

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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by roger
We run it from here but have a UK Proxy IP address, so can watch BBC and ITV. It costs a few £'s per month with no contract, but only useful if you are taking your own laptop with you (as it needs configration on your own machine).
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Who do you use Roger? I am just about to set one up, but want to be sure that they are UK based
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[FraserLynn]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by roger
We use ScotHosts for this at http://www.ukproxyserver.co.uk

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by FraserLynn
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by roger
We run it from here but have a UK Proxy IP address, so can watch BBC and ITV. It costs a few £'s per month with no contract, but only useful if you are taking your own laptop with you (as it needs configration on your own machine).
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Who do you use Roger? I am just about to set one up, but want to be sure that they are UK based
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Thanks Roger, this was the one I was looking at, but it is good to know that it is working for someone else. Is there any real difference between their 2 services, i.e. unique proxy or shared proxy?

Sorry, so many questions.

[roger]

They both seem to work well. The downside is that with the shared, if someone else does something silly and gets the IP address banned then you have no service until a new IP address is issued and you update your config. I use the unique proxy to avoid this possibility.

[FraserLynn]

Thanks again Roger, I think I'll go for the unique one as well..... hope it works ok with the Great Firewall of China!!

[FraserLynn]

All set up and working a treat, well, working on and off to be honest because of the unstable internet access and the Great Firewall of China. [msnwink] Still my wife is happy as she can at least down load Eastenders when we move there next week.

Thanks for your advice Roger

[roger]

Glad it's working. You can also watch ITV online if you want to, but you will need to uninstall Microsoft Silverlight.

If you have Silverlight installed then it will try to use the Silverlight player and this will result in a constant loop through adverts.

If you uninstall Silverlight then it will default to the Flash Player which works nicely (the downside of course being if you have anything else that you use that wants Silverlight).

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by FraserLynn
All set up and working a treat, well, working on and off to be honest because of the unstable internet access and the Great Firewall of China. [msnwink] Still my wife is happy as she can at least down load Eastenders when we move there next week.

Thanks for your advice Roger
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