TakeItEasy

I've been using https://www.pc-streaming.com/store for my UK IP address for about 18 months now.
Not the cheapest but they do have a Christmas discount sale on at the moment. Works a treat.

CarlWain74

Hi all,

I have been using the instructions in this guide to source UK proxy and I have had no trouble streaming content from the iPlayer (sometimes you need to give it a few page refreshes)

http://www.kaisersblog.com/2009/01/h...side-us-or-uk/

Also if you fancy paying for a good VPN/Proxy with good bandwidth then check this out. They seem to have a discount on yearly services.

http://www.ukproxyserver.co.uk/vpn-s...uk-vpn-server/

Also for the Mac users there is this application which works in the US without a proxy. Note that the quality on some downloads is not high quality, but I stream all content to a 26" LCD screen and it is watchable.

http://tom-tech.com/iplayer_automato...Automator.html

Hope that helps.

barryincrete

I have only good things to say about ADTelly VPN. It is inexpensive at £5.50/month and comes with a toolbar system as well which is brilliant. Also, the VPN connection does not stay on your PC. It auto installs when you connect and auto un-installs when you disconnect. http://www.adtelly.tv

Never really saw the point of messing about with slingboxes and linking from friends broadband connections in the UK when you can just do a couple of mouse clicks and be watching the beeb.

TakeItEasy

Yes, I agree about the Slingbox, just too much messing about.

emailrob

£20 a month on sale? Is this really better than the other £5 a month services (like the one below, I use a similar one)? Does it give you any other benefits do you know?

dottydilly

installed free vpn.....went to bbc iplayer...says cant watch as not in uk...?????
come on someone help with a free link for us decent tv starved people

Bob

the UK servers got yanked as it was being over used apparently.

best option is torrent really.

barryincrete

There's no such thing as a free lunch! And torrents are illegal and getting squeezed out. TPB, Mininova, Vuze...one by one they are going.

@emailrob. If a company has a professional VPN service, then there is no difference at all between ones costing £5,50 and ones costing £20 per month. Except the price. Maybe you get a German and USA option with some but, for me, that was of little or no value.

@dottydilly. I'm sorry, but one look at that Free VPN website should have been enough to show anyone how professional they are. It looked like something bad from 1995. If they can not put a decent site up I would worry about the service they offer.

Bob

Depends where you live, torrents of themselves aren't illegal, and downloading isn't illegal for those in Canada.

Vuze is just a client for all people use it for and there's plenty of sites replacing mininova etc.

It's not going anywhere anytime soon.

fatbrit

Interesting new site:
http://www.nerrot.com/

As the reviews say, it even makes Google look cluttered!

Drakule

Another option is to subscribe to newsgroups if you have a look at the TV and documentary section of http://nzbmatrix.com/index.php it has all the regular BBC / ITV stuff Corrie .. Eastenders ..Footy ..Rugby Hell even Countryfile
You do need a usenet client to download( http://www.giganews.com/?gclid=CN-ex...FY8A4wodjDsmJw does a free 14 day trial ) but i assure you if you have a fast broadband you are downloading at full throttle unlike torrent sites which are peer to peer , in my case i have 8 mb broadband and can get a 700 mb film downloaded in 10 minutes with Most BBC programmes you are looking at around 400 Mb so thats 5 minutes time enough to break open a can and get the HP on the chips

TakeItEasy

As far as I'm aware the pricing is on a sliding scale, the longer the time period, the cheaper it is. One month is 20 GBP but 12 months works out at 11 GBP per month.
As for benefits, it gains access to everything, all the BBC channels plus iplayer, all ITV channels plus the ITV Player, CH4 On-Demand, Demand 5. It gets into everything.
But I guess the main benefit is it's unlimited bandwidth. Look at post Nº 36, I can assure you that doesn't happen. Has never let me down.
I know they also have multiple back up ip addresses in case of being found out and blocked by the likes of the BBC. I guess they have to be paid for.
It's just a very good service which has never let me down.

emailrob

First rule of newsgroups - don't talk about newsgroups

Bob

those things are a pain though...paying for a server? what happened to them being free with every isp back in the day....and ironic having to pay to use one when it's usually to get out of paying for content in the first place

emailrob

Yeah the irony is wonderful. Most ISPs have dumped free support so not much choice. But I like the organization, speed, convenience over torrents. And I'm not sharing or re-distributing...which seems (at the moment) to be the focus of groups like the RIAA. Will be happy to remain under the radar as long as i/we can