Do any vpns running on a phone defeat anti vpn on BBC Channel 4 and Itvx! I can get them to work on my laptop as long as I change locations In a Chester Glasgow etc… but not in iPhone or android.
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You could try Mullvad VPN - it’s €5 a month, no contract, and has always worked for me in France including on iPad.
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Please, no-one, edit the thread title, haven’t had a simple typo give me such a laugh in ages. I thought it was something to do with German surnames.
Sorry @pete_thomas I know nothing of vpns so can’t help, but thanks for such a good giggle. 
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Chris - with this vpn, are you able to watch BBC I player in France please? - we still have access to Ziggo (Dutch internet provider) and get BBC 1 and 2 but nowt else and we are going to ditch Netflix just becuse of its drossulant content….
Ty in advance
I use NordVPN. Not expensive and with several entry points for the UK. I use a Firestick to watch UK TV. One tip. If you inadvertently try to log in to the Beeb without the VPN activated you may be blocked. Try going into settings and emptying the browser cache.
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Last time I was there I certainly could - albeit on my MacBook, and (IIRC) also on my iPad.
However the BBC and others do constantly try and block VONs so things might have changed…
Anyway for four quid and a bit it might be worth a punt?
Yup I reckon so and thanks
I can easily get BBC iPlayer and itvx to work with my VPN (surfshark) but I couldn’t reliably get Channel 4 to work. I now use other means to download C4 shows or to watch it live.
I had a problem getting ch 4 to work on a firestick no matter what Vpn location I chose. The problem was resolved by setting the clock on the firestick to UK time. Also, as Gus Morris says, clear cache on channel 4 app
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Ah, interesting… Shall give it a try. I love a bit of Gogglebox every now and again.
Use Nordvpn. Seems to work absolutely fine.
Even for Channel 4? Good to know.
We have been using Nord VPN for years - never had a problem. Except, of course, when one forgets to turn it on, then I shut everything down and do a reboot - sorted 
NordVpn works fine on anything for me. I have it on a Wifi6 router and use UDP. I do have to occasionally switch servers, but usually because of buffering.
I noticed some time last year that the location that Google sees on my VPN link keeps changing even though the IP address of the link as I see it is static. It roams around the whole of the UK. I can only think that the IP address that others see changes regularly otherwise Google’s location wouldn’t change. Never really investigated to see if that’s the case but maybe that’s why it seems so reliable ?
BBC plays whack-a-mole with VPN. They’ve got some pretty clever detection software tbf so don’t expect a ‘forever solution’ I can use just about any VPN (including free ones) and get Channel 4 - though obviously the quality is, um, variable. Tbh, I use IPTV but the less said praps.
Some of Nordvpn’s server options can be set to work like that ISTR.
It makes no difference what device the VPN is running on, phone, laptop, set top box…. all the destination sees is the local VPN IP address. It’s not your device using the address, it’s the VPN server. If the BBC have twigged that the IP address is a VPN one and blocked it then it won’t work on any device. Just change the virtual location until you find an address the BBC haven’t twigged yet.
I have NordVPN running 100% of the time on my iPhone (can listen to BBC R4 on Carplay), on my iPad (R4 at bedtime) and Apple TV, BBC iPlayer, ITvX, Channel. 4, Channel 5 etc all the time 
After years of trying to get satellite, IPTV, Firestick, etc to work (because Apple didn’t support VPNs) I’ve now got a ton of redundant. stuff. but the simplicity of our current setup is great.
Expect VPN price hikes though, as they move from a nice to have to essential.
Should I buy shares in Nord? I would love to challenge the TV lot as I have a TV licence and therefore should be allowed to watch wherever I can receive a signal. Much like Netflix etc, you pay a subscription you can watch.
Indeed. And I can use ipleak.net to display the local VPN IP address. At the bottom of a google search it gives your location, it says based upon your IP address. This location moves around. Now, it’s West Sussex, a few days ago it was in Scotland and before that in Cornwall etc etc. The IP address I see as my VPN IP address stays the same though. In the last 12 months or so, I’ve never had a NordVPN connection be blocked by any service. Not once. Before that it happened every month or two.
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I think it’s a private company. I’m a year or so into my second three year contract with them and I’ve watched them try and expand the scope of their offering into security, dedicated IP address etc. I’m not sure how successful they will be but their VPN service does generate a lot of cash. They are based in Lithuania and it’s worth Googling something like “does NordVPN make a profit” and “is NordVPN associated with organised crime” to see the answers. I’m not sure what legislation might come down the line to regulate VPNs either. Especially now that every kid in the UK under sixteen will want to use one 