The BBC’s streaming edition of iPlayer, which makes use of Adobe Flash software, launched on 13 December 2007. iPlayer presents replays of programs broadcast on all BBC TV channels during the last seven days. Programmes available are those from BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament, BBC Alba and BBC Wales programmes shown on S4C. Because of to license agreements, international and several private shows or movies are not offered on iPlayer. The point that BBC TV productions are paid for by the UK television licence fee, as well as rights agreements with third parties mean that BBC iPlayer TV programmes are only accessible in the UK. TV programmes can be accessed using a UK based proxy server. These issues do not, however, affect radio programmes, which are available from outside the Great britain.
The basic option on how to watch Hulu or BBC iPlayer outside Us or Great britain are proxies and VPN services. Now locating very fast United Kingdom or USA based hosts or setting up a usefull VPN can be quite a hassle. Some of you probably wont even know what I am talking about. So here are a few easy solutions that will work:
The simple option to bipass hulu is throught HotSpot Shield , its a totally free internet security suit that encrypts and defends inbound / outbound Internet traffic (email, instant messaging, VoIP calls, web surfing, etc.) by creating a virtual private network. Hence concealing your actual location to a USA based IP as HotSpot Shield is its self for USA only. So after installing HotSpot Shield, run it and you will notice a small icon on the task bar right click it and connect a window in IE or Firefox will open and will display the status if it gets attached then refresh Hulu and enjoy the cool episodes.
Second choice is to use Ultrareach UltraSurf is the flagship software product from UltraReach Internet Corp. for Internet anti-censorship. It helps users inside international locations with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. It routinely connects to the fastest possible US proxies. You can moreover set it up to route only one browser (IE for example) or tunnel other traffic like as BitTorrent
AlwaysVPN is a free of charge VPN (virtual private network) that can run on Windows XP, Vista, Max OS X and Linux. It results in an encrypted link between your computer and their servers and then forwards all of your internet traffic through this link. AlwaysVPN is really equivalent to HotspotShield. Just install, connect and you will get a US IP address. There are 2 ways to connect to AlwaysVPN, TCP and UDP. UDP is faster because there is no form of flow control or error correction. As for TCP, it is slower than UDP but reliable because it presents error correction. Try both to see which would give you a better result in viewing videos from Hulu. You can furthermore use VPN.