Former Lancastrian

Criminal rather harsh co conspirator as you are willingly let her use your account.

sharkus

Cheeky sod

Ignoring unblock-us, which only I can use anyway (it's based on your IP address, so you cannot use it in two locations at the same tine), Netflix themselves are actually fine with two people in two different locations using the same account. The plan I'm on allows for two "screens" to be used with the same account at the same time, and I explained the situation to them, and they said it was fine.

Former Lancastrian

You mean if I was to subscribe to unblock-us at something like $4.99 a month and have a Netflix account I can watch all Netflix regions? Surely not too many people are doing this

sharkus

Correct. They have a free seven day trial, so you can give it a whirl and see if you like it.

The basic flow is that you setup their DNS address on whatever device(s) you want to region switch (it will work with other services too, I was able to get iPlayer to work by switching the region to the UK), and then go to their website, login, it'll pick up your IP address, and you change the region to whatever ones Netflix supports. You then run Netflix on the device you changed the DNS on, and away you go, you're in that region.

I usually connect to their website from my iPhone which is connected to my wifi network, and that has a mobile version of the site that allows for quick switching of region.

Some people will put in the DNS entry on their router, so that *all* devices will pick up the selected region. I've only set it on my Apple TV, my xbox is set to it's defaults, so it's always on it's "home" Netflix region, which is Canada.

One could argue doing this kind of thing is a little naughty. However, one legitimate reason could be for you travelling to another country, say the UK, and wanting to view media from Canada. Without unblock-us, (or something similar) you could not do that. I think this is a possible reason why Netflix does not seemingly do too much about VPN's and things like this, as there is a legitimate reason, albeit probably used by a very small minority of users.

I seem to recall some head honcho at Bell found their daughter was using a "vpn" to watch content outside of Canada. I fully suspect that they were using unblock-us and netflix. The Bell person phrased it as their child "stealing" and put a stop to it. I do wonder if they asked the child why they were doing it. I suspect it was simply to view something not in the CAD system. Part of me suspects that the parent put a stop to it because they were upset their child didn't use Crave TV, then again, who does?

jimf

I use a VPN account with HMA (details set up on a second router) and for the most part this has worked pretty well. BBCiplayer works with Xbox360, PC, Iphone but for some reason recently the Ipad doesn't work when connected the same way. Anyone else fixed a similar issue?

InVinoVeritas

I had a similar problem once, some devices working and some not and the solution for me was to disable IPV6. Might be worth a try.

SchnookoLoly

We do the same thing. We share an account with my parents, so cheaper for all of us. We often have two "screens" going at the same time, but only once in the past two years have we run into the not enough screens problem. Works great. And Netflix doesn't seem to notice/care that the account globetrots like mad!

THis is exactly what we do too, just with Unotelly instead of Unblock-US, but they are pretty much the same service. My parents use it as well... and Unotelly also launched a companion site for Netflix, www.filmefy.com, where you can search for a movie or TV show and it will tell you which Netflix region(s) host that content. Super convenient.

Partially discharged

BBC Iplayer was working for me for 2 or 3 days and now is back to being blocked. The ITV player works though. Jeremy Kyle marathon here I come

bert07

We are having issues here too - I just started a thread before seeing this.

fulwood

Do you get the message "You can only watch BBC if in UK" or something to that effect? I delete cookies and then BBC works fine. Bit tiresome as have to do more often but worth it for the programming.

bert07

Yes - only available in the Uk.

Have tried deleting cookies/cache. Am using the iPad and it won't work from either the app or webpage.

Alan2005

I watched ronnie o'sullivan thrash that other bloke in the masters final on sunday using iplayer. Not checked since then though.

bats

We're still ok on UnblockUs.

SchnookoLoly

Still good on unotelly.

Tangram

and unblockus