How does iplayer on ipad know I am outside uk when wi-fi is connected via vpn

[archmill]

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can help - just got a new ipad and my internet connection is connected to a vpn account, so my bbc iplayer works perfectly (I am in Australia) on my MacBook via wi-fi connection. However, when I connect my ipad to the same connection/wi-fi, the iplayer on ipad still knows that I am outside uk and hence I am unable to use this.

Does anyone know why this happens and how I can get this to work?

Thanks.

 

[Consultant]

Try turning off location services for iPlayer.

 

[mackiwilad]

Try turning off location services for iPlayer.

There is nothing under Location Services for the iPlayer app.
They must be detecting it some other way...

 

[shawndoc]

Are you sure the iPlayer traffic is going out over the VPN?

 

[mackiwilad]

Are you sure the iPlayer traffic is going out over the VPN?

I'm not sure how to check. I do know that when I set up the L2TP VPN I selected "Send All Traffic" as instructed by the installation Wiki.
A quick IP look up on iPad Safari reveals me to be somewhere near London, apparently.

I have a 3G iPad 2, but I have not installed a sim card in there at all, so it shouldn't be active. My thought is perhaps they have locked onto the GPS chip somehow....

 

[nikmacr]

i had the same problem. you need to disable location services on the ipad, not the iplayer... go to ipad settings and turn off location services

 

[tkadrum]

i don't think turning off location is the answer.

Wi-Fi is using IPN, each country has their own IPN. Therefore, if you are outside of the US, it wouldn't work.
With desktop, I was able to use Hotspot Shield, and the other one is called HideIP(i think). I have yet encountered one for iPad.

 

[mackiwilad]

Yeah, turning off LS did pretty much nothing.
I did get a very very slow connection once by clearing the cache, history and cookies, restarting and using a VPN. To be honest, who can really be bothered doing that each time they want to watch a show?

The VPN is key too. The BBC seem to have blocked off the IP ranges of most of the common VPN providers in sunny England.. That one time i was able to get a connection was this tinny little server in a small city, resulting in a show that resembled a scratching session at the local nightclub.

 

[orpheus1120]

I suspect OP's wifi isn't connected to the VPN. Currently only ethernet-connected devices are routed through VPN. If you want your wifi to be routed to VPN as well, you need a wireless router that has VPN-routing capability. Here is a list of them. Or you can jailbreak your iPad and download a VPN client.