A friend in Spain advises that he has complete access to BBC iplayer now by renting a proxy server which actually works very well HERE

i used to use MPN, but was unreliable. gone for 'uktvaccess', completely under BBC's radar and very fast.

Talking to a pal of mine today who has discovered a new company selling VPN's amongst other items. Never seen a company that sells VPN's for so many different countries, from Poland to Portugal to Switzerland, they are all there, including the UK for the iplayer: http://digitalworldplus.com/store/
I'm going to give this company a go when my account with my present supplier has expired.

How can they get away with charging for the service when the BBC shut down the free ones as soon as they can ?

That's bloody expensive, are you nuts? Do people actually pay that much? It is obviously your service you are promoting, but get real ... when there are endless VPNs at under a fiver, why charge 50 quid for three months? I mean, you can rent a virtual server for about 25 quid a month ... and that's 16MPS all your own ... do you do valet service and give your clients a rub-down or what? Anyway, good luck ...

Expensive Spam, and I prefer Corned Beef with brown sauce.

And when compared with an earlier post of yours were you said what current vpn supplier you were using. I would like to point out that a Whois and PrivacyProtect search reveals that both domains are owned by the same person sunning it up in Tenerife

A VPN solution works reliably and gets BBC, ITV, C4, Sky, TVCatchUp in the UK and also Hulu, ABC, Fox, ABC, etc in the US. I set up clients with home theatre and occasionally shop around for the best deals. Currently UKiVPN.com is the best VPN and has been for a while.

A satellite dish is more reliable than the VPN method.

Lol.

Is this the most read thread on BE? Had a trawl, it seems massive.

Its nothing on the threads in the lounge, The 3 Word Story is 400k plus and every other post is Cleri`s

Hi guys,

After trials and tribulations of proxy servers and a whole series of internet sites that make wondeful promises of providing FREE british TV thay one must PAY FOR, I've given up and gone for a Freeview Satellite Box (Bush HD).
And, what do I discover? - The BBC iPlayer is included under the "red button" option.
Great, I thought, I'm gonna be able to watch all the British channels thanks to my satellite dish AND catch up on stuff I've missed ......... but it doesn't work!
I can get to the player, and even browse the different indexes, but as soon as I launch a programme, nothing happens.

Does anybody think (KaOra, I'm lookin' at you!) that it's because the box connects to iPlayer via the ADSL connection and it's not letting me connect because my IP is not UK located?
I've googled this problem every way I can think and nothing comes up.

It is because of that, The only solution would to add another router between the Adsl router/modem and bush box that supports VPN's and proxy setups so that the traffic from the bush box goes via that route.

Thanks.
I guess I'll do without! Youtube will have to do for catch-ups.

The only reliable way I have found to access the iPlayer is via Onspeed

OK it's not free, you have to pay annually, but it works all day every day, end of story.

Or you could change ISP to AS24Telecom