proxies ... and other forms of isp obfuscation ...

[Brown Sauce]

I am trying hard to listen to UK radio, the bbc in particular, when they broadcast live sport over the net. I live in Germany, the beeb have a system that figures out what my isp is, and so knows I'm not in the UK, and so I get the "not for you sonny boy" message. It is not difficult to do, but it should be easy then to bypass, not so, at least not for me.

I have tried proxies, and up to now, none of them work, though if they are indeed anonymous, and from the UK, they should work. The beeb also has a way of blocking everything but private broadband addresses. I would guess that the proxies I have been finding belong to companies, universities and so on.

Any tricks, anything I've missed, or indeed a good UK proxy .... ?

[Bob]

the problem you're more likely having is that public/free proxies are just crap...they don't have enough bandwidth to keep a stream going, but they do work if you have enough bandwidth, which means you've got to pay for a proxy service...

if you want to watch a bit of sport, try the p2p streaming stuff like sopcast, TVant, PPLive etc, etc..

[Brown Sauce]

I'm watching eng v sri lanka now thx to sopcast

I do get your point about the paid for proxies, thing is I want good un's for free, good un's that last

[alan1254]

anyone have any other proxy advice I would like to use one the government here has banned over 1 million sites, most of them are porn, fair enough im not bothered but others are not , like youtube , any ideas?

[major.tom]

I haven't used it, but have you heard of Tor?

Tor Homepage

It might not be fast enough for streaming media, but if you have trouble accessing information, this might help.