Indeed. Hosting on one's own connection is often impractical. Sites like
lowendbox feature deals at pretty bargain basement prices fairly regularly,
including services which are ok with OpenVPN use.
A friend has one of these just for tunnelling to his dev servers (for work)
without getting blocked by a weird corporate firewall setup.
Trick is to find a service which gives you an IP geolocated to the Uk, but
far less likely to get caught in a dragnet ban than if using commercial VPNs.
On 23 December 2018 20:10:00 Dave Widgery <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi
That's fine if you have access to somewhere that has a good enough
upload speed to install a server, otherwise it is back to a VPN DNS or
Proxy solution's, I have never known Hotspot shield or SmartDNS be
unavailable for more than a few days.
Dave
On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 20:48, Christopher Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:
There's various techniques services can use to detect inconsistencies.
Browsers still give a lot away...
With your DNS redirection enabled, run the tests on http://ipleak.net and
see whether you pass things like the WebRTC IP leak tests. If so, great,
but it doesn't guarantee problem free access.
Netflix, Amazon and various other services including the BBC gather details
of VPN providers and their IP ranges. It's not hard to identify client IPs
proxying traffic, so even if you carefully obfuscate your usage you might
find VPNed traffic gets blocked in future.
Best off running your own Linux VPS on a private IP geolocated to the UK
and SSH / VPN through it. :-)
On 22 December 2018 22:45:33 Dave Widgery <[email protected]> wrote:
> I started out using Hotspot shield very successfully for many years,
> then had a problem as the BBC managed to block it for a short while,
> so started using smart DNS proxy, because I didn't cancel my
> subscription on HSS I now pay for both, which still isn't very
> expensive but handy if one gets blocked I can use the other.
> I don't see much difference in performance between them, but Smart DNS
> proxy is a lot more flexible as you only have to change network
> settings and do not have to run a client on every machine which is not
> always available (unix based systems for example).
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 15:28, Paul Thornett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> VPNs are often very slow. Much faster, and a solution that works well
>> for me, is something called Smart DNS, which is essentially a
>> different set of DNS
>> addresses. Both VPNs and DNS redirection will cost you a small amount
>> of money - ignore the so-called free offerings, they are usually very
>> slow and often not to be trusted.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul Thornett
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul Thornett
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 00:33, Chris Marriott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > That's the way it's always been. TV programmes are geo-restricted, but
radio
>> > programmes are not. You need to use a VPN which makes you appear to be in
>> > the UK if you want to download TV programmes.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: CJB
>> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 1:06 PM
>> > To: get_iplayer-request
>> > Subject: Europe
>> >
>> > Hi - we were in Budapest recently with a fast wifi connection at the
>> > IBIS hotel!!!
>> >
>> > I tried the GiP PVR and did a cache refresh quickly and easily both
>> > for Radio & T.V.
>> >
>> > Then I ran the PVR list and this too went OK. For example it
>> > downloaded the latest 'Beyond Our Ken' for 16-12-2018 which ended up
>> > as:
>> >
>> > Beyond_Our_Ken_-_From_4_6_1959_m0001k9d_original.m4a
>> >
>> > File size : 69.1 MiB
>> > Duration : 30 min 4 s
>> > Overall bit rate mode : Variable
>> > Overall bit rate : 322 kb/s
>> >
>> > Just the same as in the UK.
>> >
>> > BUT ... no t.v. downloads.
>> >
>> > CJB
>> >
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