VPN

[fred]

Any recommendations for a good VPN to allow acess to BBC iPlayer outside the U.K. ?

[www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

I use Proton VPN for those times I want to be some one/where else. They do a free version along with a free version of their superb mail service.

Just tried logging onto i-player via a hop through CH and back to UK without any problems. (no.rdns.ukservers.com 78.157.211.236)

Netflix on the other hand appear to be building up a database of VPN exit servers as they've blocked access everytime I've left VPN connected; BBC at this moment in time haven't adopted such measures but they do have a history of shielding the kind of people for whom anonymity is of paramount importance.

[Chris Green]

Isn't a simple proxy much simpler to set up and also impossible to detect as it will likely be running on a home system which is a perfectly valid place to connect from.

It's trivial to set up a proxy using ssh for example.

[Paul Welsh]

Not that trivial. First you need to have a uk server and then you need to make it reliable, if it is unsupervised.

I'm curious what content is it that people want from iPlayer they can't get from somewhere else.

[Steve]

One to rule out is Private Internet Access. Both iPlayer and Netflix don't like it.

[Mark]

N != L

[Chris Green]

Hardly difficult, nor expensive. Virtual servers are becoming steadily cheaper. Plus you don't even need a server of your own, all that's needed really is a UK based system where you have an ssh login account.