Has anyone been having trouble watching the BBC in the last few days? Despite changing servers I am unable to watch the BBC as the players keeps saying I am not in the UK, first time this has happened in two years of using the service. No problem with ITV.

It would seem that the BBC are blocking StrongVPN IP addresses: http://www.survivefrance.com/forum/topics/strongvpn-blocked?id=3339392%3ATopic%3A736256&page=1#comments

Could be that BBC are collecting the IP addresses of commercial VPC servers and blocking them. I have heard of other content providers doing that.

I am using Witopia and no problem connecting to BBC through their London or Manchester servers. They also have one for Nottingham, but I have not tried that one.

Browsec works. And it's free.

The BBC said they were going to start blocking VPNs back in October. There was extensive media coverage at the time. It's thought this is being done because the BBC plans to start charging for video streaming in the USA.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/19/bbc_cuts_off_vpn_to_iplayer/

Kodi's BBCiPlayer by Mikey still working today without any VPN or geo-unblocking extra addons at all. It was down for a few days earlier this week tho!

I posted a warning about this in October. Of the three VPN's I tried, HideMyAss, VPN Express, and IPVanish, IPVanish was the only one that worked consistently for me.

As you can see, other posters have success using other VPNS, or different methods.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/864372-dont-update-your-bbc-iplayer/

Edited December 30, 201510 yr by phetphet

My Hola/Chrome combo still works OK.....

FilmOn - works perfectly + has ITV etc

https://www.filmon.com/tv/live

Hide my Ass works,had a dynamic one few weeks ago but now use Loc 2 in most instances to get BBC i player

FilmOn - works perfectly + has ITV etc

https://www.filmon.com/tv/live

But unlike the BBC and ITV web sites, FilmOn doesn't offer play on demand? the 7 hour time difference makes it less useful for many.

Just connected to both the uk version of the web page and played a programme on I player using Strong VPN - no problem. Try again after you've cleared website data.

I contacted StrongVPN they said that they were aware of the problem and they put me on another server and things are working once again now.

Very prompt response from StrongVPN - Change to one of their vpn-lo or vpn-td4 servers.

Fixed

Any reports of ITV Live/Iplayer having same problems....>??

Any reports of ITV Live/Iplayer having same problems....>??

Not as yet (never stopped for me) but they didn't announce that they would be blocking VPN access.

I expect a game of cat-and-mouse now with the VPN providers vs the BBC.