The best solution

I promised more, and here it is.

The next option is to use the Internet again, but differently.
The BBC (Bless them) introduced the BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer, an interactive web application that allows you to stream or download your favorite programs. Great, Super. But what if I am on a two week vacation in sunnier climes (that's anywhere other than the UK!). Well we can try, but the BBC use a clever Web technology called GEO IP. This lets their servers know where in the world your ISP is (the one you are connecting through) and if that is NOT in the UK, then you are blocked. But we are paying our licence fee, so why can't we catch the F1, or Wimbledon.

Well now you can!

What you need is a proxy server in the UK. I have been on the search for these as allegedly there are free ones out there, but I have never found one that was reliable enough to make a connection for enough time or with enough bandwidth to work. And indeed because of the bandwidth limitation there are also many that have the iPlayer software specifically blocked.

However I have found a solution. Go to www.cthetv.co.uk and press the subscribe button.

You get the one week free trial, then the subscription starts at 8 euros per month for access. Set up is Simple. Works with BBC iPlayer - providing access to BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC THREE, BBC FOUR, BBC Parliament, BBC News 24, BBC ALBA, BBC HD (for those with really good computers and Hi Def screens and lots of bandwidth), CBBC and Cbeebies.