As a Brit living in the middle East for most of the year, I resolved these issues by setting up Home Assistant in my house on UK with the wireguard add-on and upping my bandwidth so my local download speed matches the UK upload speed.
This allows me to use all UK services perfectly. Including iPlayer.
Good thing about wireguard is I can use it with my android TV also, making UK media consumption a breeze.
Thanks for the tip. From a 30,000 perspective, it’s crazy that we have to go through the wasteful exercise of shipping gigabytes of video data up and down scarce residential fiber for no other reason than to tick a performative copyright box.
This allows me to use all UK services perfectly. Including iPlayer.
Good thing about wireguard is I can use it with my android TV also, making UK media consumption a breeze.