Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

So we ant to start watching BBC iPlayer etc and looking through an old thread using a VPN service seemed the best method. Anyone here ding this and able to recommend a provider and the costs?

Thanks.

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

I think you want a proxy server rather than a VPN.

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

I understand that is one way of solving the location problem. In a previous thread

www.consult-here.com/vpn.html.

was mentioned and was wondering if anyone other that Jetfixer had used it?

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

Yeah, a VPN to a server in the UK would allow you to access UK sites just like using a proxy server, but in a more secure manner (though with recent UK surveillance laws they'd probably have to hand over information on everything you to do the government; however, I doubt that you'd get extradited for watching BBC shows without a TV license).

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No, but I bet the TV licence people would send you a bill. :thumbdown:

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

You have a PM .

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

I bet you they won't :thumbsup: because they can't identify you through the VPN - which is why it's called a Vitrual PRIVATE network. At best the TV licence people may try to block the IP addresses used by the VPN but that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack and in any case why shouldn't people outside the Uk be able to use iplayer and watch the BEEB , many still have homes and TV licences in the UK anyway.

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the beeb havent figured out how they will charge for international viewing yet, when they have, it will be available.
Really there are licencing issues, when they sell a program to a foreign country, they have to make sure that they dont compete with client broadcaster by offering it direct.

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That's fine and to be honest if the licence fee was available to me outside the UK I wouldn't mind having it as long as I had the same access as in the UK. Until that day I look forward to the TV detector vans roaming the streets of Spain and the South of France trying to catch the Ex-pat non licence payers in the act , not to mention the people like me who view through the internet :thumbsup:
let's be realitistic if the BEEB throws it up onto a satelitte and broadcasts far and wide and then does the same through the internet , they can't really cry foul when people who don't even know what a TV licence is , stumble across that broadcast media and watch it.

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

yes, i'd agree, i think the beeb is excellent value compared with anything else out there.

I happen to use VPN as i have a VPN server anyway. if all you need, is to watch the bbc, a proxy is fine. that or use a p2p app and download the programs the next day, as they all seem to make it to piratebay.

Re: Anyone Recommend a VPN?
 

The TV Licence is a tax to fund the BBC. Unlike most other taxes though, people have a choice not to watch the BBC even though they're paying for it.

End the tax, or at least stop calling it a 'licence fee'.