{"id":472,"date":"2025-02-02T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/?p=472"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:49:24","slug":"you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a BBC IP Address. How to Get a UK IP Address for BBC iPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_BBC_IP_Address_for_iPlayer_bbc_news_ip_address\"><\/span>A BBC IP Address for iPlayer \/ bbc news ip address<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>For once in my life, I stumbled into a conversation in a bar, where I was actually something of an expert. \u00a0 Not anything really important mind, or even particularly intellectual but nevertheless on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/how-to-stream-bbc-in-the-usa\/\">watching British TV<\/a> over the internet &#8211; I do have many years of experience!<\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_75 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#A_BBC_IP_Address_for_iPlayer_bbc_news_ip_address\" >A BBC IP Address for iPlayer \/ bbc news ip address<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#Dedicated_UK_BBC_iPlayer_Proxies\" >Dedicated UK BBC iPlayer Proxies<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#No_Reason_to_Spend_Money_on_a_Dedicated_IP_for_BBC_iPlayer\" >No Reason to Spend Money on a\u00a0Dedicated IP for BBC iPlayer<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#Dedicated_IP_for_BBC_iPlayer\" >Dedicated IP for BBC iPlayer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#NordVPN_%E2%80%93_A_VPN_That_Works_with_BBC_iPlayer\" >NordVPN &#8211; A VPN That Works with BBC iPlayer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#FAQ_%E2%80%93_Additional\" >FAQ &#8211; Additional<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#Whats_a_BBC_iPlayer_IP_address\" >What&#8217;s a BBC iPlayer IP address?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#Will_a_Dedicated_BBC_IP_Address_actually_Work_Though\" >Will a Dedicated BBC IP Address actually Work Though?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#How_Much_Extra_will_a_Dedicated_BBC_IP_address_cost\" >How Much Extra will a Dedicated BBC IP address cost?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#How_Can_a_Dedicated_IP_address_for_BBC_Help\" >How Can a Dedicated IP address for BBC Help?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/you-dont-need-a-dedicated-ip-for-bbc-iplayer\/#Does_Paying_for_a_Dedicated_IP_Address_Guarantee_100_Access_to_BBC\" >Does Paying for a Dedicated IP Address Guarantee 100% Access to BBC?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>It started in about 2007 when I was sent travelling around the world working on an upgrade of a popular Desktop operating system in a very big multinational.\u00a0Although the locations I visited sounded exciting, the reality was that I arrived (usually in the dark), spent some hours in a server room before then retiring to some boring business hotel before flying home.\u00a0The highlights were generally everything not breaking, a successful tripinvolved being largely ignored and leaving quietly a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>No time or energy for sight-seeing, or expenses either, just a lot of time sitting in airports and hotel rooms. \u00a0One of the main issues was boredom, especially as most of the hotels didn&#8217;t really have many English-speaking channels on their satellite systems. \u00a0It was in one of these hotel rooms that my quest to watch British TV on my laptop began and I&#8217;ve been researching it ever since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-476 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"Dedicated IP for BBC iPlayer\" width=\"677\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer-768x184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer-1024x245.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer-720x172.jpg 720w, https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/davidattenborough-bbciplayer.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now back to my bar room discussion which involved a few British expats and a few Americans. \u00a0The discussion was &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\"><strong>how to watch the BBC from the US<\/strong><\/a> without having to use some overpriced cable package. \u00a0 \u00a0 Several of the people in the circle had achieved this, however the method they used was quite unusual and surprisingly they were all doing the same.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dedicated_UK_BBC_iPlayer_Proxies\"><\/span>Dedicated UK BBC iPlayer Proxies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they were doing. \u00a0Each of the BBC fans had found a service which operated private dedicated proxies based in the UK which you could rent for about 30$ a month. \u00a0They then bounced their internet connection through their respective proxies and therefore where able to hide their location and watch the BBC. \u00a0Now normally if you try and <a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/bbc-iplayer-canada\/\">watch the BBC iPlayer<\/a> from the USA, you&#8217;ll just get blocked. \u00a0 So, this method was perfectly valid as instead of seeing your true location it would see only the IP address of the proxy server. \u00a0As this was in the UK, all British TV channels worked fine and there was no issue.<\/p>\n<p>So, what was my problem? Well mainly the fact that all these people had their very own, private dedicated proxy server just to watch the BBC on. \u00a0It&#8217;s overkill, it&#8217;s not needed and even worse it&#8217;s much more expensive than it needs to be. \u00a0 The reality was that as per usual someone had found a web site explaining that in order to watch the BBC you had to have an individual, dedicated IP address in order to watch. \u00a0 This is completely untrue &#8211; you can certainly share <a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/which-nordvpn-servers-work-with-bbc-iplayer\/\">BBC iPlayer<\/a> proxies within reason.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_Reason_to_Spend_Money_on_a_Dedicated_IP_for_BBC_iPlayer\"><\/span>No Reason to Spend Money on a\u00a0Dedicated IP for BBC iPlayer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Anyone who has worked in a large IT department will probably have come across some web monitoring software. \u00a0It&#8217;s used to find out how bloody lazy the employees are and how much time they waste on stupid social networking sites when they&#8217;re supposed to be working. \u00a0If you have seen this, you&#8217;ll also know that in the UK one of the most popular sites is the BBC and the BBC iPlayer. \u00a0Huge networks are routinely brought to a crawl by thousands of people watching the BBC at work. \u00a0 However, for our illustration the important factor to remember is that most of these people access the <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/using-a-vpn-to-bbc-from-us\/\">BBC from a single IP<\/a> address &#8211; their corporate proxy.<\/p>\n<p>In offices around the UK, most individual computers are routed through some sort of gateway to the internet. This means that all these people will usually access their websites from the same IP address &#8211; that of the gateway computer (often a simple proxy). \u00a0Which means that there&#8217;s no way that the BBC will ever start to filter and restrict access to individual IP addresses. \u00a0If they did literally millions of people would be cut off from watching the news from their office or catching up with the latest episode of Bargain Hunt when everyone&#8217;s started to doze off in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>However, my new friends had decided that you needed your own individual UK IP address dedicated for their own use in order to access the BBC online. \u00a0Well, let me state quite categorically this isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>You Definitely Don&#8217;t Need a Dedicated IP address for BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dedicated_IP_for_BBC_iPlayer\"><\/span>Dedicated IP for BBC iPlayer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply not practical, literally millions of people share IP addresses all the time. \u00a0For example, if you had to have a dedicated IP address then only one person in a house or flat could access the BBC online at the same time. \u00a0That&#8217;s clearly not the case and why it&#8217;s unlikely the BBC would ever make such a filter or block active.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually good news for my friends because it meant they could cut their costs substantially in watching the wonderful BBC. \u00a0 All you need is a VPN\/proxy service which has an endpoint server based in the UK. \u00a0You will occasionally see reports of the <a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/enjoying-bbc-iplayer-using-smart-dns\/\">BBC iPlayer VPN not working<\/a> however it isn&#8217;t through blocking anyone who isn&#8217;t on their own reserved IP address. That means that loads of inexpensive security services would work perfectly as they keep the costs down by sharing IP addresses between users &#8211; although the data is still protected by encryption. \u00a0 Sure, there are lots of concurrent connections from the same addresses, but that&#8217;s perfectly normal behaviour anyway. \u00a0It should be noted though that it&#8217;s still wise not to overdo it. \u00a0If you have tens of thousands of concurrent connections all streaming from the same IP address, then that might raise a few red flags in the BBC server rooms.<\/p>\n<p>So, investing in a service to <a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/how-to-use-bbc-download-abroad\/\">watch the BBC from outside<\/a> the UK is without doubt a great investment. \u00a0The BBC online site has gone from strength to strength and is packed full of incredible programmes in all sorts of areas. \u00a0What&#8217;s more one of these VPNs opens up all the other UK TV stations as well including <a href=\"http:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/itvplayer-usa\/\">the ITV Player<\/a> which has also really improved over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Both your support by clicking the links below or any of your questions are both very welcome.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"NordVPN_%E2%80%93_A_VPN_That_Works_with_BBC_iPlayer\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/nord\" rel=\"nofollow\">NordVPN &#8211; A VPN That Works with BBC iPlayer<\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FAQ_%E2%80%93_Additional\"><\/span>FAQ &#8211; Additional<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few questions we&#8217;ve recieved in response to this page.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whats_a_BBC_iPlayer_IP_address\"><\/span>What&#8217;s a BBC iPlayer IP address?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s just basically a UK based address which is not blocked or blacklisted by the BBC.\u00a0 Unfortunately most VPN\/proxies provide UK IP addresses which don&#8217;t work with the BBC so make sure you don&#8217;t use one of these!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will_a_Dedicated_BBC_IP_Address_actually_Work_Though\"><\/span>Will a Dedicated BBC IP Address actually Work Though?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Yes, it will as long as it&#8217;s not already banned or blocked.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t mind spending the money, a dedicated IP address for the BBC is definitely more reliable but you don&#8217;t need it.\u00a0 Most VPN services will offer you a dedicated IP at an additional cost.\u00a0 The costs are not huge so if BBC access is really important to you then sure, get one.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Much_Extra_will_a_Dedicated_BBC_IP_address_cost\"><\/span>How Much Extra will a Dedicated BBC IP address cost?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Cost varies but currently one of the cheapest I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/nord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is NordVPN<\/a>.\u00a0 They allow you to add a dedicated IP address option for an extra \u00a33.30 (about $5 a month) &#8211; it effectively doubles the cost of the VPN but it&#8217;s still good value for exclusive use of an address.\u00a0 Make sure you don&#8217;t reserve exclusive use of a blocked IP address though!<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Can_a_Dedicated_IP_address_for_BBC_Help\"><\/span>How Can a Dedicated IP address for BBC Help?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The main advantage is that most media sites block VPN access by spotting the number of addresses being used to access the site concurrently.\u00a0 So 10,000 people simultaneously streaming the BBC News from a single IP address means it&#8217;s 99% certain that it belongs to an organisation running a proxy or VPN server.\u00a0 So if you don&#8217;t share IP details then you&#8217;ll never be picked up by these detection methods, but see the next question\/answer too.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Does_Paying_for_a_Dedicated_IP_Address_Guarantee_100_Access_to_BBC\"><\/span>Does Paying for a Dedicated IP Address Guarantee 100% Access to BBC?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Unfortunately not, in fact it can actually be a huge waste of money if you&#8217;re really unlucky.\u00a0 \u00a0The difficulty is that media sites often block access based on ranges rather than individual IP addresses.\u00a0 So you can often get blocked in the corss fire if your IP address is in the same range as a bunch of over used shared IP addresses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC IP Address for iPlayer \/ bbc news ip address For once in my life, I stumbled into a conversation in a bar, where I was actually something of an expert. \u00a0 Not anything really important mind, or even particularly intellectual but nevertheless on the subject of watching British TV over the internet &#8211; I do have many years of experience! It started in about 2007 when I was sent travelling around the world working on an upgrade of a popular Desktop operating system in a very big multinational.\u00a0Although the locations I visited sounded exciting, the reality was that <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itv","category-uk-tv"],"modified_by":"dotslash","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayerusa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}