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Seems like a repeat of the iPlayer problem from earlier this year, whereby download start then halts at 12 meg and then error messages are shown... last time this was the BBC's fault and was fixed by them, BTW using the manual VPN does not appear to circumvent the problem

Downloaded two programmes on iplayer this morning on straight multimax not with manual vpn no problem
I had the problem with iplayer stalling earlier this year .When was the last time you updated or downloaded iplayer
Try re installing iplayer may help

This has just been posted on Yell Ali magazine, not sure if this is contributing to your problems.


http://www.yellali.com/news/article/204 ... rseas-fans

Dalartokat wrote:This has just been posted on Yell Ali magazine, not sure if this is contributing to your problems.


http://www.yellali.com/news/article/204 ... rseas-fans

No this was a problem with the BBC iPlayer site's software - nothing to do with the VPN blocking...

The BBC should concentrate on making good telly and not bother trying to sew-up such loopholes because the technology will always outstrip their ability to squash it and long-term they are wasting effort = money and they always claim they don't have much of that.... King Canute springs to mind...

Groucho wrote: The BBC should concentrate on making good telly and not bother trying to sew-up such loopholes because the technology will always outstrip their ability to squash it and long-term they are wasting effort = money andf they always claim they don't have much of that.... King Canute springs to mind...

I agree that entering an 'arms race' to block net based access from outside the UK is not a smart way to go. What they should do is offer a global subscription based service to those outside the UK, along the lines of netflix. I would happily pay 5.99 or 6.99 a month for legal access to BBC content from outside the UK. Their problem is however the same one that netflix has, a lot of their content is not owned by the BBC and the content owners will not sign deals that allow such a 'global' service to be commercially viable. They prefer and are seeking to perpetuate the old world models where they sell their content to individual countries separately. The EU may actually help this issue in that they would prefer any content available in one EU country to be available equally in all EU countries and may bring pressure on to content owners to sign, if not global rights deals, then at least EU wide ones, which would be a move in the right direction.