marquess Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marquess Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eclipse Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Browsec works. And it's free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyG Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorriedNoodle Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetphet Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) 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, 2015 by phetphet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youaredoomed Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 My Hola/Chrome combo still works OK..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePai Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 FilmOn - works perfectly + has ITV etc https://www.filmon.com/tv/live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loppylugs1 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Hide my Ass works,had a dynamic one few weeks ago but now use Loc 2 in most instances to get BBC i player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorriedNoodle Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palmeiras Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marquess Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Very prompt response from StrongVPN - Change to one of their vpn-lo or vpn-td4 servers. Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivas Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Any reports of ITV Live/Iplayer having same problems....>?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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