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Why does iPlayer say I'm outside the UK?
Justastray
06-07-2015
I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem I'm currently having on iPlayer, as well as on other TV channels.

When trying to watch a programme on iPlayer one day last week, I was unable to do so and received a onscreen message saying that the iPlayer is not available outside the UK. Now, for all the ambitions towards independence for my county home of Yorkshire, I live just outside Leeds, and we are still in the UK, so how and why would my iPlayer tell me it thinks otherwise?

Has anyone else come across this problem, and, if so, could you tell me, please, how it was resolved?
aurichie
06-07-2015
Go to www.whatismyip.com and then click the "My IP Information" and see what information gets displayed about your IP. Specifically what country is shown?
Stig
07-07-2015
Originally Posted by Justastray:
“I wonder if anyone can help me with a problem I'm currently having on iPlayer, as well as on other TV channels.

When trying to watch a programme on iPlayer one day last week, I was unable to do so and received a onscreen message saying that the iPlayer is not available outside the UK. Now, for all the ambitions towards independence for my county home of Yorkshire, I live just outside Leeds, and we are still in the UK, so how and why would my iPlayer tell me it thinks otherwise?

Has anyone else come across this problem, and, if so, could you tell me, please, how it was resolved?”

Are you using any VPNs like Unblock-US?

Im guessing you are using a tablet, but are you using the iPlayer app or a web browser?
poppasmurf
08-07-2015
I had the same problem with my iPhone 5 a couple of weeks ago, following an update of the BBC iPlayer app.

There was another update and the problem disappeared.
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