Getting around IP restrictions to use BBC iPlayer

MemEmee

Getting around IP restrictions to use BBC iPlayer

Can anyone suggest a safe and uncomplicated way of tweaking my IP address so that I can use BBC iPlayer. And not screw up my computer / ip address.

I've registered and downloaded iPlayer but as I've an Irish IP I'm screwed. I need a UK or NI one I guess.

Anonomysers are no good as they just do individual web pages.

I need what I think is a VPN or IP Tunnel!

Any ideas? Anyone done this already? Is there a cost?

Thanks

Mossy Monk

MemEmee wrote:

Is there a cost?

A guilty conscience.

bk

Mossy Monk wrote:

A guilty conscience.

Why?

Everyone in Ireland can already get BBC for free, via FTA satellite or over the air broadcasts.

As for any argument over us not paying a UK TV license, I think it is a small pay back for all the money and lives the Brits stole from Ireland over the centuries.

Mossy Monk

bk wrote:

Why?

Everyone in Ireland can already get BBC for free, via FTA satellite or over the air broadcasts.

As for any argument over us not paying a UK TV license, I think it is a small pay back for all the money and lives the Brits stole from Ireland over the centuries.

Perhaps I should have included an "I am joking" smiley.

bk

Mossy Monk wrote:

Perhaps I should have included an "I am joking" smiley.

Sorry

To answer the OP original question, have you tried http://www.privoxy.org which allows you to use proxys on your machine at the IP level (rather then the browser level) in an easy and convenient manner.

I haven't tried iplayer yet, so I don't know if it will work.

Elmo

Getting around IP restrictions to use BBC iPlayer

Surely if we can ask this question we should be able to ask the same for NBC, CBS etc.

Perhaps other Irish companies need to make money from their use of BBC shows.

watty

This high bandwidth Full definiton Kontiki style stuff of BBC & Sky & ITV & C4 eats your cap even when not watching the programs. It wrecks the Internet for all the users as the ISPs don't have the bandwidth for it.

Get a Dish.

Bros123

Anyone found a way to get iplayer to work?A few things i have missed lately and no sky+.
Could come in handy every now and then.

dulpit

bk wrote: »

As for any argument over us not paying a UK TV license, I think it is a small pay back for all the money and lives the Brits stole from Ireland over the centuries.

Are you serious?? *sigh*

watty

bk wrote:

As for any argument over us not paying a UK TV license, I think it is a small pay back for all the money and lives the Brits stole from Ireland over the centuries.

Both irrelevances. Maybe all the "non-Native" "white & blacks" should leave North America too? Much more recent.