You could have realized that when you're outside of the UK, you can't access the BBC Iplayer abroad. The explanation is that the BBC uses a thing by the name of Geolocation to restrict viewing to precise users. Basically what the BBC IPlayer site does is look at your IP address and compare it with a database to establish where you are surfing from.

If the database announces that your iP address isn't registered in the UK you will get blocked. It's worth trying though, a number of these IP databases are out of date and may incorrectly place you in the United Kingdom even if you're not. For example there's quite a chunk of French IP addresses that get listed as UK addresses and these can play BBC Iplayer without issues.

So what are you able to do if your IP address is listed as being outside the UK, are the BBC Iplayer delights like Formula One and Match of the day denied you? Well there is hope and it's actually a reasonably straightforward conumdrum to clear up. So lets have a look at some options.

BBC IplayerProxy Options

the least expensive option but not always the simplest is to attach back to a UK machine, what you need is to create a simple VPN or SSH tunnel back to a PC in the UK. You can then modify your stand in settings in your browser and your IP address will seem to be based in the United Kingdom. This strategy works very well if you have some technical data and access to a machine in the UK, one of the issues is that you will need a good upload speed from the United Kingdom machine or the connection will be extremely slow.

another choice is the BBC IPlayer stand in strategy, find a free proxy server and surf through this. Of course you may have to make sure it's in the United Kingdom but it should enable to view BBC IPlayer. The downsides are that you have to ceaselessly search for new proxies, the free ones rarely last particularly long, infrequently only hours before they're overloaded. Ensure you don't do your ordinary perusing thru these proxies though and make sure your pathogen checkers are recent.

The other method is to use a commercial option, this is just paying a fee to employ a UK based proxy server. It works just about the same as the free strategy with the edges that it is much safer, much faster and you can connect any time you wish.

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