Comments on: BBC iPlayer: How to watch real UK TV in Thailand

By: Mike Preston

Mike Preston — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:30:33 +0000

I Know this is late to comment bu if anyone is still reading this here’s how I did it last week and it works fine, some buffering at the very start but then uninterupted streming.

Go to the following : http://hurwi.net/blog/?p=28
and follow the simple instructions.

However when you try to connect you’ll keep getting a massage to say you need to install flash.

The fix is: Open firefox and right click on the enable/disable Tor buton in the bottom right hand corner. click on prefferencesand then security settings. Uncheck the first box in the list.

it now works fine…happy viewing

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:56:39 +0000

This is excellent. On my last trip to the UK I got dear ‘ole mum a shiny white Mac with Wifi.

But you are right, there is a problem with good her unplugging the computer.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:54:31 +0000

I’ve just gone down this route and it’s working reasonably well, except for the slow Internet speeds. Saving the programs is a better option, for me at least.

The other benefits are being able to listen to, for example, the BBC Radio 5Live sports broadcasts that are normally only available inside the UK. Royal Ascot and Premiership commentary would be two examples.

By: Western Observer

Western Observer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:52:31 +0000

@ Jon

I didn’t recommend a particular VPN hosting company because I didn’t want readers to think that this article was an advertisement. In my own case, I tried two companies and both were satisfactory. Neither were recommended to me – I googled them – but, if either had turned out to be rubbish, I would only have lost a fiver.

You are right to be concerned about Internet cowboys. I would never access my Internet banking facilities or make a credit card purchase through an unknown third-party VPN service. For added security, you can configure the proxy settings in Firefox to connect via VPN only when you are browsing UK TV and then to default to your regular connection for everything else.

The only way to guarantee 100% security is to set up your own server in the UK. A shared hosting plan won’t cut the mustard, however. You need root access and the cheapest way to get it is through a virtual private server (VPS). Setting it up is a lot of work though.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:17:09 +0000

Great post. With all the goings on out here an English VPN is clearly the way to go – interested to know if you have any recommendations or experience of any that are proven? So many cowboys out there on the web I rarely trust an internet subscription when I see one.