Watch BBC I player

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I had used Hola to watch BBC I player from aboard , but latery it stop working , it works find on ITV I player , any one have any other suggestion on what to use to hind the IP address .

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Hi Vic, havent used iPlayer abroad since mid October. I had noticed for about a month prior that more and IP adressess were being 'recognised' by iPlayer as the endpoints of VPN and other hiding services so being rejected. Did some research and discovered the BBC were having a purge and that many folk were finding what previously worked no longer did. I used HideMyAss VPN service, by manually switching to some addresses at the 'bottom of the list' I could get the connection to work but those may now be rejected too.
 
RobbieW said:
Hi Vic, havent used iPlayer abroad since mid October. I had noticed for about a month prior that more and IP adressess were being 'recognised' by iPlayer as the endpoints of VPN and other hiding services so being rejected. Did some research and discovered the BBC were having a purge and that many folk were finding what previously worked no longer did. I used HideMyAss VPN service, by manually switching to some addresses at the 'bottom of the list' I could get the connection to work but those may now be rejected too.
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Ah, that explains a lot. I noticed recently that iplayer doesn't work if I'm using my VPN, although in the UK with vypervpn set to the UK. Wondered what was going on there. Ta.
 
RobbieW said:
Hi Vic, havent used iPlayer abroad since mid October. I had noticed for about a month prior that more and IP adressess were being 'recognised' by iPlayer as the endpoints of VPN and other hiding services so being rejected. Did some research and discovered the BBC were having a purge and that many folk were finding what previously worked no longer did. I used HideMyAss VPN service, by manually switching to some addresses at the 'bottom of the list' I could get the connection to work but those may now be rejected too.
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Hi Robbie , i did wonder what was going on ,
hope your and J are well we back in Sicily but not Licata .
 
Just tried tunnel bear vpn and it's still working. I'm not too hopeful for this to continue, though. Past experience suggests the Beeb devote far more resources to stop their services being used than in providing them.
 
I have just found that the BBC website uses cookies to record your location so that services can be tailored to your location (eg weather forecast). If you use your computer abroad and get an 'overseas' cookie installed perhaps iPlayer checks these cookies and prevents access? They can be turned off, which I have done, to see if it makes a difference.
 
neil1967 said:
I have just found that the BBC website uses cookies to record your location so that services can be tailored to your location (eg weather forecast). If you use your computer abroad and get an 'overseas' cookie installed perhaps iPlayer checks these cookies and prevents access? They can be turned off, which I have done, to see if it makes a difference.
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tired to clear cookies but made no different
 
It does seem a bit hit and miss. We use a VPN and sometimes if my wife tries to connect on her Win7 laptop it won't work, but my MacBook Air will, and vice versa, despite the fact we're both using the same VPN service. Sometimes clearing cookies and history helps, sometimes not. I think the BBC do actively try to block known VPN access, and then the VPN provider changes the IP address, so normally any disruption is fairly short lived.
 
In California last October we watched SkyGo, Iplayer and ITV Player via the cyberghost free version on an android tablet. as most tablets have an hdmi output, that can be sent to a larger screen if your laptop etc won't connect to iplayer.

ITV player is carp and wouldn't work when the others did - not a vpn problem just a carp site and server
 
Burnham Bob said:
In California last October we watched SkyGo, Iplayer and ITV Player via the cyberghost free version on an android tablet. as most tablets have an hdmi output, that can be sent to a larger screen if your laptop etc won't connect to iplayer.

ITV player is carp and wouldn't work when the others did - not a vpn problem just a carp site and server
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I uninstalled ITV player as I didn't watch much and the app was so poor. I don't think that I saw any way to download and watch offline but might have missed it in my rush to uninstall.

I usually download from BBC iPlayer and watch later. Tunnel Bear free version was fine for that in Spain last year. I simply connected with VPN and downloaded about 15MB before pausing and turning Tunnel Bear off. The downloads could then be resumed without any VPN and so I always had some of my 500MB free allowance left each month.

I expect BBC will eventually get around to fixing that loophole.
 
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I have an eyeTV at home and if you have a Mac at home while you are away, you can access it from a browser anywhere and it will stream to your laptop either live broadcasts or recorded content. It is quite cool. You can set the eyeTV to record your favourite programmes and then stream them whenever you want.
 
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