How Can you Watch BBC Iplayer Outside the UK
If you’ve tried watching the BBC Iplayer online then you may have found out that you get blocked accessing Iplayer outside the UK. So do you want to know how they stop you??
I’m afraid your IP address is to blame. The BBC IPlayer detects what your IP address is and then checks if this range is inside or outside the UK. BBc Iplayer will only work if it’s a UK IP address. If your IP address is in another country tough.
So if you’re outside the UK, then BBC Iplayer and TV won’t work ?
But all is not lost, there are ways to Watch UK TV. The solution is to make sure that your connection has a UK IP address. If you’re technically minded the best free method is to route through a pc in the UK.
If you can leave a PC on in UK and connect via SSH or VPN tunneling you’ll be fine. This creates a little encrypted tunnel between two computers , in my case it was my laptop and my LInux server at home.
Try a program called Putty to to connect to your home server via SSH it can be windows or linux.
Then redirected your browser to use a local proxy connected through this SSH tunnel. It’s not that difficult to do, and you won’t get blocked. I had a big problem with performance though when I did this.
My connection upload speed couldn’t cope with video streaming and was awful. The UK upload speed is the key to making this usable, mine was too slow. The other option that people can use to watch BBC Iplayer and UK TV is to use a slingbox, but again my poor UK connection speed made that unusable, might be good for many people though.
So I moved to the private TV proxy services, and at first that worked well, you get a private proxy to watch TV for in exchange for a small fee. The BBC target the TV proxy companies and you’ll figure out what they do ? Well they complain to the hosting companies, or ISPs and generally your TV proxy company just dissappears over night, it’s not illegal to use their service but of course most people don’t want the hassle.
I finally settled for a program which delivered BBC Iplayer through a secure network of private proxies, it has a software front end, support teams and is not marketed in any way as a TV proxy program. It works wonderfully and extremely quickly on most connections!
