I guess you must be right…but then at the moment I am watching The Repair Shop from last week or so on iplayer, figure that out.
Yes, but there is no IPlayer (etc.) or catchup facility.
It seems that many people are able to get IPlayerin France. The BBC is certainly trying to block any unpaid-for access and has not yet come up with a subscription model. Cheap or free VPNs are less likely to be able to get into BBC programming. More expensive VPNs seem to have little problem so far. But, jwall, it is true that this is an ongoing saga. You pays your money and you takes your choice, I guess.
no need to go on the attack. Perhaps edit your post to remove the personal reference?
@Hairybolux I think Le-Dolly was puzzled rather than anything else - your reply was a bit OTT, not to mention against site T&C - could you edit it to take the tone down a little please.
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Yup. Been there … Tunnel Bear, Nord, Pure and others. SurfShark OK a.t.mo.
I’m still living in hope that a Linksys router loaded with ‘Tomato’ firmware [Like WWRT] will eventually do the job but I need a techie to set it all up. I understand the basic concept but the setting up is beyond me.
Sadly, you’d still need a VPN provider.
I like flashing 3rd party ROMs (be it phones, routers, modems, whatever) so I’d never discourage anyone having a go! It does come with dangers though - you could reduce your essential bit of tech to paper weight status - so it’s not for the faint of heart.
Apparently having a computer sitting somewhere in the UK amd connecting to it transparently is the way to permanently solve the whack-a-mole of VPN’s constantly being detected and blocked. The BBC and Amazon being known to be particularly aggressive about this.
It was covered in detail by clever people here on another thread - a search for “Raspberry Pi” should find it but any computer (or maybe even just a router/tablet/smartphone? ) should do
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the catch being that you need the computer in the UK - but if you do, then this can work well. As far as the BBC are concerned I am connecting via my regular ISP using the same login as I do when at home so there no way they can distinguish me using the service in France from using it in the UK.
Pi, router with suitable software or PC (even quite old ones will be more than adequate).
Tablet or smartphone - probably pushing it a bit, certainly Android would theoretically be capable of doing it but I don’t know anyone who has tried.
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This seller was selling ex-corporate modems having ‘flashed’ the firmware with Tomato, a flavour of WWRT
I’ve thought about doing something similar with OpenWrt but it’s rather difficult to make a profit - getting hold of routers from corporate clearance is OK but they are likely to be very old - and not have the performance for modern > 100Mbps Internet connections.
Also, it’s not a product I’d trust and wouldn’t expect anyone else to do so either.
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