Last Updated on 26th February 2020

I travel a lot and when away there are two main Internet sites that cheer me up without fail – BBC IPlayer and Pandora. Unfortunately it can be difficult to both watch BBC iPlayer abroad and Pandora outside the US are actually quite tricky because they will only work with a UK or US workstation respectively.

Fortunately because I always surf through a secure proxy on the Identity Cloaker network, this doesn’t really matter to me as my location is defined by whichever proxy I am surfing through. So I simply select a UK server for watching it’s kind of a BBC IPlayer proxy.

Identity Cloaker is the most sophisticated security software on the internet, it allows you to surf completely protected via a network of private proxies across the planet. These are fast, secure properly run proxy servers not the free slow ones infested with viruses that people normally try to use !! You might have also seen the dedicated VPN, smart dns and proxy servers promoted for unblocking bbc iplayer or other online TV stations – they are very often simply a single server set up quickly. Why? Simply because when the BBC legal department threaten them (which they usually do), they end up disappearing suddenly.

So when I am in Turkey and want to watch – I simply connect via one of the UK proxies and watch BBC iPlayer, if I want to listen to Pandora outside the US I just select one of the US proxies. It doesn’t matter where I am as long as I have a working internet connection, because it’s encrypted I can watch from anywhere. The same goes for a TV channels in lots of other countries as they have Australian, Canadian, German, French, Irish and a host of other proxy servers to watch in addition to the huge number of UK servers.

Anyway I have made this rather bad video to illustrate how I access the BBC iPlayer abroad. I’m afraid I don’t do the ease of this any justice with my video though, the best thing about the Identity Cloaker to access these programs is the huge choice of proxies and their speed. If you’ve ever tried using iPlayer through a slow proxy or VPN then you’ll realise how painful it can be.

Using a BBC iPlayer Proxy with Identity Cloaker

I’ve never used the video software before so apologies for the amateurish video editing. I just wanted to make sure people were able to see how easy it is to use this security software. There are dedicated services for just watching BBC iPlayer that cost well over twice the price of Identity Cloaker, they offer just a single proxy server to do this – Identity Cloaker has proxies all over the planet and dedicated software to control and protect your connection, from an icon in your taskbar.

It takes a minute or so to install and then you just point and click.

It is actually a fundamental point of using a proxy abroad, your IP address defines who you are and what you can see. So if you surf via a UK proxy this is how any web server you visit will see you also exactly the same as a UK Internet surfer. Because Identity Cloaker has fast proxies in lots of other countries you can use it to access similar restricted broadcasts in Sweden, Germany, France, Canada, US and many others. If you like music try Pandora for an awesome US only radio station – just select the right countries proxy and you’ll be away.

Of course you used to be able to sample this method by using a free proxy. Don’t try this out now though as it hasn’t worked from about 2014. You need something that’s hidden from the BBC, even many popular VPNs don’t work anymore. Identity Cloaker is one of the few VPN/proxy services that has consistently been working with the BBC, I personally have been using it since 2008 !

So can you use BBC iPlayer anywhere?

Pretty much, as long as you pick one the UK proxies, it manages your connection in the background and encrypts you connection. You can even run it from a USB stick if you remember to take your login details with you, watch it through firewalls and when countries try to censor what you watch.

If you travel a lot it also means you can access lots of other sites which have country restrictions stopping you watching the BBC IPlayer abroad. For instance I can access UK poker and casino sites from the States who would normally block an American IP address, Turkey often block Youtube and social networking sites but Identity Cloaker users just bypass this.

Anyway I’m off to Turkey in a few weeks and I’ll be keeping up with all the latest BBC programs watching BBC IPlayer outside the uk via Identity Cloaker.

In a few minutes you can be watching your favourite BBC shows through a safe, fast and secure proxy

If you like to watch or listen to any UK TV shows and you spend any amount of time abroad, you’ll find it a fantastic investment. The software is simple to work and you just pick a proxy to connect to and off you go, remember free proxies are very slow and many are full of viruses. If you do manage to find a safe, fast free proxy server to watch the BBC Iplayer on, chances are it will be gone in a day or so.

The ability to watch media is not advertised on the web site but drop them a line if you want to check, the support staff are very responsive and will check out problems with any channels. Unblocking BBC iPlayer is straight forward as are most of the UK TV stations online. Be very careful of companies who do advertise this TV facility openly through things like a smart dns proxy facility, they frequently disappear overnight, after legal threats from the media companies themselves i.e. BBC, Hulu and ITV etc.

Why not treat yourself here:

With the Identity Cloaker trial to check it works – it’s the ultimate BBC iPlayer proxy completely guaranteed and for the price of a coffee and sandwich you’ll be impressed I’m sure!

With Thanks

From http://www.iplayerabroad.com/