Smallest UK VPS for using BBC iPlayer?

nikc

@zsero said: VPN and Proxy I understand. What I don't understand is that how does these "smart" DNS services work, what does it simly by a DNS setting change:

http://www.unotelly.com/unodns/
https://www.overplay.net/

And of course, is it possible to make one ourselves?

I would love to be able to run something like this, SSH / VPN all work nice for my PC's but would love to get a UK IP for the Xbox / PS3 .....

vaviloff

May I bump this for the initial reason? - need smallest UK VPS for using BBC iPlayer.

chrisp

At the moment that would be http://lowendspirit.com/ (3€ a year!)

It has ipv6 only but a shared ipv4 for outgoing connections. You can just use it as a proxy but can't run services on it. So thats perfect for an extremely cheap iPlayer proxy..

And btw. I thought 100gb of traffic isn't sufficient..now I think it is. I never use more than ~50gb for watching and downloading stuff from BBC

vaviloff

Wow, thanks! Could you maybe share some details of how you use it, tech-wise?

Rapta

http://tunlr.net/
http://www.vpngate.net/en/

AnthonySmith

@vaviloff said:
Wow, thanks! Could you maybe share some details of how you use it, tech-wise?

@vaviloff there is a support forum at http://forum.lowendspirt.com which has an OpenVPN Auto installer script, it is very simple to use

chrisp

@vaviloff said:
Wow, thanks! Could you maybe share some details of how you use it, tech-wise?

Sure. I use:

https://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/wiki
+
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/hds-link-detector/

and then created a batch script on windows to run that script with the correct manifest url. I also use the proxy-parameter in KSV script, so that I only need to create a ssh connection, that creates a local proxy and then click the shortcut et voila it works in VLC.

But to use it in a browser I would just suggest to create a connection in putty (Dynamic port forwarding) and then put the information for the SOCKS 5 proxy in your browser.

I personally do not like VPNs at all because you are forced to route everything through it.