Originally Posted by MeanMint:
“I am considering cancelling my Unblock US sub as my IP address according to the site is constantly changing. This then causes problems with my Ipad, AppleTV, Panasonic TV and other items as Netflix will fail to load until you log back into Unblock US and refresh your IP address. It's a RPITA, I pay the $4 pm so I can watch the stuff without this problem. Tried to look on their help and can't find much about it other than put up with it. Also via Unblock US my Panasonic TV cannot pick up the SUPER HD titles, but via normal UK Netflix it can. Rant Over”
What you are experiencing is a problem with your ISP and not Unblock-US. Where I live in Germany, all ISP's change your external IP address daily, so yours is the first I have heard that does this in the UK. You could change your ISP to one that doesn't do this, or maybe your ISP has an extra service including static IP - though at an extra cost.
I use
Overplay which also has this, but Overplay gave me a great bit of code to put in my NAS so that it automatically updates each time my IP address changes via a script. This means I never have to manually do it. If you have a small computer, like a NAS, highly configurable router or media center on 24/7, this could work with you. Likewise, there are others ways to partially automate it.
Once I set this up, it really changes things as you never have to think about it.
From what I understand, Overplay offer all the same SmartDNS services that Unblock-US do at about the same price, including Netflix regions and all the other on-demand places. But I think they also offer a few more on-demand, though it's hard to tell as both sites keep adding new ones.