Topic: How do I fool ITV.com into thinking I'm in the UK?

[froglets]

There's a good reason, honest...

Are you sitting comfortably?  The I'll begin.

I'm a fan of Doc Martin & there's a new series being shown on ITV.  We were watching it at mine on Monday when OH got a call from a neighbour to say they'd disturbed burglars trying to break into his house - mad scramble & off we went - turned out to be a bit of a strom in a tea cup, but..... we missed the last 15mins of Doc Martin.

So, I go to ITV.com & try & watch the episode online, but after loading up the right drivers etc, it came back & told me I couldn't watch it 'cos I wasn't in the UK.  This happens because I access the fast internet via work provided kit, we have a .com domain & I think our servers or internet gateway are hosted in Germany - Napster insists I download the German software & multimap gives me adverts in German.

Is there any way anyone knows of getting round this, or has Cheshire ceded from the rest of the UK without telling me?

Thanks

[Riffster]

Its done on a technical process called "Whois lookup" based upon your providers IP address range,  and where they are registered.   So I doubt you can get around that easily.

I'll pm you.

[Admin aka Dan]

You could use a UK proxy, but you need to be fairly technically competent to set it up, and know someone with a proxy you can use (so not that easily).

Or you could download it from somewhere else .....

Dan

[froglets]

Hmmmm,  last times I was technically competent with PC stuff, MSDOS v3 was the Biz.

Perhaps I'll see if it gets shown on ITV3 sometime & get a friend to video it.

Sorry, still laughing at the thought of ever being technically competent again.

Thanks for the explanations. both.

Cheers