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    CaptCoz

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    Does any expat out there know if it is poddible to watch On demand TV I live in France and have an early Humax Fox Sat receiver which allows me to watch ITV hub but not BBC as it knows I'm not in the UK Before I part with my money for an upgrade I'd like to know what I can expect Thanks

    | Fri 5 Jan 2018 14:35:15 #1 |
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    Hi welcome to our forum. Google Smartdns service or vpn service.

    My Brother In Law used to live in Brittany, he used a smartdns service called hidemyass,

    https://blog.hidemyass.com/free-public-proxy-servers-from-hide-my-ass/

    Note recent changes to iplayer might make this no longer possible.

    | Fri 5 Jan 2018 14:38:10 #2 |
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    My son's experience in Germany is that the smartdns providers are continually having to change the UK domain they provide to the end-users because the BBC identify and block them. At the moment I think the iPlayer simply asks him to confirm he has a licence, but I'll be in Germany next week and get up to date with what is happening.

    | Fri 5 Jan 2018 15:14:43 #3 |
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    Pollensa1946 - 9 minutes ago  » 
    My son's experience in Germany is that the smartdns providers are continually having to change the UK domain they provide to the end-users because the BBC identify and block them. At the moment I think the iPlayer simply asks him to confirm he has a licence, but I'll be in Germany next week and get up to date with what is happening.

    Would a VPN service like NordVpn do better ? NordVpn has a long list of UK servers.

    | Fri 5 Jan 2018 15:26:06 #4 |
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    grahamlthompson - 29 minutes ago  » 

    Pollensa1946 - 9 minutes ago  » 
    My son's experience in Germany is that the smartdns providers are continually having to change the UK domain they provide to the end-users because the BBC identify and block them. At the moment I think the iPlayer simply asks him to confirm he has a licence, but I'll be in Germany next week and get up to date with what is happening.

    Would a VPN service like NordVpn do better ? NordVpn has a long list of UK servers.

    Not sure what his current setup is. Will see next week as my wife will undoubtedly want to watch her favourite pgms.

    | Fri 5 Jan 2018 15:57:03 #5 |
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    Here we are in eastern Germany enjoying all the UK OD players. Perfect picture and sound with no buffering. The solution in use is this...
    Rent a Cloud Server from a London provider.
    On that implement a VPN Server which connects to the UK Internet.
    At home a second router is used exclusively for OD services. All devices requiring OD are connected to that router. On that a VPN Client is implemented.
    VPN Client is hooked permanently to VPN Server, giving a static IP address.

    This is a broad outline, I don't understand it in detail. One weakness is that the end-point OD provider can identify the connection as VPN. Netflix use this to block all VPN connections. If the BBC did that then it would not work.

    | Thu 11 Jan 2018 10:11:28 #6 |

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