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But found out the bad news that you get blocked when you try to access outside the UK.So do you want to know how they stop you watching BBC IPlayer Abroad?

The reason is simply your IP address. BBC IPlayer detects what your IP address is and then checks if this range is inside or outside the UK. If it’s a UK address then the IPlayer will work.

If your IP address is in another country tough.

So outside the UK BBC IPlayer and all UK TV are blocked ?

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 have some technical knowledge, the best free route is to go through your own UK pc.

If you have a router at home you can connect via a VPN through the UK address. 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 huge difficulties with performance though.

My connection struggled to relay the video through my home server and frankly the service was unusable. 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. Worked great except the BBC don’t like these companies set up with the intention of bypassing their restrictions so guess 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!